The latest Brisbane City Council budget showed the council’s predicted spending for the next financial year and beyond, including the revenue it planned to make.

During a budget information session on Monday, council lifestyle and community services chairman Matthew Bourke was questioned about how much of the $22 million in proposed revenue for 2018-19 under the customer service portfolio was to be made up of fines.

Cr Bourke revealed the figure was about $7.3 million.

It was also disclosed that almost $3 million of that was expected to be made from parking fines.

Cr Bourke said the council took a tough stance on breaches to local laws, which in most cases presented serious safety risks.

“Illegal parking, unkempt properties, illegal dumping, dog attacks and food safety breaches can all impact public health and safety and council will make no apology for fining residents doing the wrong thing,” he said.

“Council also has comprehensive education programs around food safety, responsible pet ownership and has invested more than $6 million over the past two financial years to upgrade parking advisory signage and other initiatives to improve motorist awareness about parking restrictions.”

Opposition spokeswoman Kara Cook said she was shocked to hear more than $7 million was already forecast for infringement notices.

“They are just taxing the ratepayers of Brisbane again and it’s not fair,” she said.

“Brisbane City Council is here to serve the residents, not fine them.

“At the end of the day, they [the council] would be better off investing money in educating the public and ensuring that any problem areas for infringement notices are effectively dealt with through education rather than simply penalising people through infringement notices and forecasting and projecting that income.”

Cr Cook said there had been a general reluctance for the chairman of the council committees to be open and transparent during the budget information sessions.

“Often it takes a number of questions to get the information,” she said.

“We have just seen a veil of secrecy around providing the real figures and when they’re asked the hard questions they don’t want to deliver the response.”

Within the infrastructure section of the budget, the council listed a proposed revenue of more than $34 million from “parking management”.

It was understood the council planned to receive at least part of the $34 million in revenue from the 1000-plus parking meters across Brisbane as well as the council-owned King George Square and Wickham Terrace car parks.