A report in the council's budget papers shows the biggest hit was taken by the Orange Civic Theatre. It is projected to have lost $325,000 in revenue as a result of it being closed this year.

Other significant losses included child care centres ($280,000), Orange Regional Airport ($260,000) and the Orange Aquatic Centre ($137,000). Council has also had to forego a projected $250,000 in revenue from car parking fines due to the lockdown.

The budget papers, to be presented to an extraordinary council meeting on Tuesday night, also show bulky waste recycling will be returning to Orange. Ratepayers will be charged $11.35, regardless of whether they use the service, to have bulky waste collected from their nature strip once a year.

A report said 85 per cent of respondents to a council survey backed the plan.

It will be collected in three passes. First for refrigerated bulky waste that requires degassing and can be recycled, the second for scrap steel that can be recycled and finally general bulky waste.

All the Orange councillors will be getting a pay rise.

It is recommended councillors receive an allowance of $21,888 a year and the mayor receive $54,072.

While the councillors will gain an extra $1608 a year the mayoral allowance will rise by $9802.

The mayor receives the allowance in addition to the councillor allowance.

Both allowances for Orange City Council are 10 per cent below the maximum allowed for Regional Centre councils as determined by the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal two weeks ago.

Orange has been reclassified as a Regional Centre council instead of a Regional Rural council which also means an increased allowance.

Council will spend $79 million on capital projects in the next 12 months.

The council report said those projects would create 158 jobs for contractors to do the work.

Key projects include the $30 million FutureCity regeneration of the Orange CBD for which council has budgeted $5 million over each of the next two years, $4.4 million to upgrade the airport and the $20 million Orange Regional Conservatorium for which council has budgeted $5 million.

The budget was put on public exhibition and received 16 submissions from the public.

They included requests for funding and donations from the Orange Farmers Market, Lifeline Central West and a request to increase funding for Spring Hill.

The Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange have asked council reallocate funding for planning a mountain bike park on Mount Canobolas while the Orange Rail Action Group is supporting a roundabout to be built at the corner of Peisley and Moulder streets.

Meanwhile, Cabonne Shire Council is also voting on its budget at its monthly meeting on Tuesday.

It did not receive any submissions during the public exhibition period and also was not largely affected by coronavirus lockdowns.

The report to council said it would be maintaining services at existing levels with no new ones planned.

It has also laid out a major projects and capital works program to cost $22 million.

The key areas of spending will be local road construction ($5.5 million), regional road construction ($1.4 million), plant ($2.9 million), footpath kerb and guttering ($390,000), IT infrastructure ($450,000), pool upgrades ($74,000), community centre development ($1.5 million) and water ($450,000), sewer ($180,000) and community interest ($4.5 million) projects.

The major projects include installing LED lighting at Molong Recreation Ground and Tom Clyburn Oval at Canowindra.

It will also continue the design process for the Cabonne Community Centre and library at Molong.

Rates and waste management charges will rise by 2.6 per cent.