Community presentation

Draft Operational Plan 2015/16

20 May 2015

We will talk about …

• Operational Plan 2015/16 – significant actions

• 2015/16 Budget

• Improving productivity

• Fees and Charges

• Questions and discussion

• Next steps

Operational Plan 2015/16

Three key factors:

• Meeting service commitments and delivering

major infrastructure projects

• Maintaining a financially sustainable Council

• Addressing the needs of the growing population

of Maitland

How does it fit together?

• Delivery Program 2013-17 (Revised)

• Operational Plan 15/16 incorporates

• Identified actions against community outcomes

• Capital Works Program

• Budget

• Fees and Charges

• Productivity focus

• Continuing conversations all year – engaging with,

listening to and responding to the community

Action highlights

Five themes

Proud People, Great Lifestyle

Our Built Space

Our Natural Environment

A prosperous and Vibrant City

Connected and Collaborative Community Leaders

Objectives and actions

• Four year Delivery Program developed to assist

in meeting community goals.

• 39 objectives detailed in the 2013-17 Delivery

Program.

• Actions against each objective detailed in the

Operational Plan 15/16

Proud People, Great Lifestyle

• Stage one year-round indoor 25m heated pool

• Review of library needs in Central Maitland

• Off-road cycleway network expansion

• Upgrade of Town Hall performance space

• Increased spending on facilities and public toilets

• Taste, Aroma, Riverlights, New Year’s Eve, Australia Day and Bitter and Twisted

• An extraordinary program for 30 years of Steamfest

• Skate park renewal and development

• City appearance - graffiti and illegal dumping

• Improved access to the Hunter River

Our Built Space

• Maitland station and improvements to Athel

D’ombrain Drive

• Affordable housing in Central Maitland

• Increased investment in resealing and reconstruction

• Increased investment in footpaths, esp. in older

suburbs

• Improved bus shelters and bus stops

• Delivery of road safety programs

• Planning for growth and development in new

suburbs including Gillieston Heights, Chisholm,

Lochinvar and Farley.

Our Natural Environment

• City Waste Strategy - kerbside bulky waste collection; collection of green waste; waste facility changes

• Hydrological modelling for the Hunter Estuary

• Installation of solar or other energy efficiency lighting

• Revegetation of river banks, wetlands and cleared lands

• Noxious weed and invasive pest removal programs

• environmental and sustainability programs

• Maitland Rural Lands Strategy including surveying local food producers to identify relevant policy implications.

A Prosperous and Vibrant City

• Promotion of ‘The Levee’ as a lifestyle precinct

• River Link Building and River Walk refurb; laneway and footpath improvements

• Central Maitland improvements for pedestrians and vehicles

• Place activation initiatives

• Public art

• New destination management plan

• Economic Development Strategy and Action Plan

• Further roll-out of ‘Brand Maitland’, including the development of activity centre sub-brands.

Connected and Collaborative Community

Leaders

• Establishing networking opportunities for

business operators

• Promotion and implementation of a Community

Engagement Guide

• Finalisation of a Council wide customer service

strategy

• Enhancement of Council’s website to make it

easier for our community to do business with

Council in a range of areas

2015/16 Budget

Significant items

2015/16 Budget - Balanced

Income 110,436,000

Expenditure 110,443,000

Net surplus 7,000

Key factors - Income

$ Increase/Decrease

Rates income $3,932,000 Increase

Financial Assistance Grant $140,000 Decrease

Interest income – General fund $125,000 Decrease

Tipping fee income $529,000 Decrease

Domestic waste management services

charge income

$1,260,000 Increase

Key factors - Expenditure

$ Increase/Decrease

Employee costs (associated with

service delivery)

$2,837,000 Increase

Workers Compensation premium $430,000 Increase

Waste services costs $627,000 Increase

Carbon tax $1,465,000 Decrease

State Government Waste Levy $710,000 Decrease

Loan repayments $265,000 Increase

Rating

• Total rate yield of $46.6 million (incorporates

7.25% increase over last year)

• Impacts on each category differently

• Four categories –

Farmland

Residential

Mining

Business

Average rates 2015/16

Category/subcategory Rates (on average land value)

Business $5,945

Residential Urban $1,168

Residential Non Urban $1,933

Farm High Intensity $3,192

Farm Low Intensity $2,450

Mining $174,402

Major programs • Capital works program $15.0M (nearly double

$7.88M in 11/12)

• Maintenance programs $9.25M

Major projects• Station Precinct/Athel D’ombrain Drive - $11.68M

• The Levee (Stage 2) - $9.92M

• No. 1 Sportsground - $8.6M

• Aquatic Centre - $7.0M

• Town Hall - $2.06M

Capital Works Program 2015/16

Productivity savings

Committed to productivity saving equivalent to $500,000 each

year through:

Service reviews and service delivery models

Systems and support

Corporate and financial planning and reporting

Revenue and cost saving opportunities

Management and leadership accountabilities

Questions and discussion

Next steps

• Submissions until 29 May 2015 – via

maitlandyoursay.com.au or by letter

• Report to Council June 2015 – outlining

feedback and any recommended adjustments

• Operational from 1 July 2015

• Stay up to date at maitlandyoursay.com.au

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285 - 287 High Street, Maitland NSW 2320

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