A significant $7.2 million refurbishment of Craigie Leisure Centre was the large ticket merchandise within the City of Joondalup’s 2021-22 budget that councillors unanimously adopted on Tuesday night time.
However, its working prices will nonetheless outweigh its income.
Mayor Albert Jacob mentioned this yr’s budget had one of many City’s “most ambitious capital spends”, with a complete capital expenditure of $52.9 million.
It additionally has a complete working expenditure of $161.6 million, which incorporates $66.2 million on worker prices, $55.2 million on supplies and contracts and $31.9 million in depreciation.
However, it additionally features a 0.9 per cent improve in charges, which equates to a rise in income of $1.9 million, taking the whole to $100.7 million.
This contributes to the whole working income of $151.9 million, which additionally consists of $41.5 million in charges and fees and $6.1 million in authorities grants. The budget additionally has a capital income of $12.9 million.
Corporate companies director Mat Humfrey mentioned the City’s resolution final yr to cut back its charges earnings by $5.3 million in response to COVID-19 had a “significant impact” on its working place.
He mentioned whereas this yr had a small charges improve, and there was a “marginal improvement” within the working place, it might not restore the City to the place it was in 2019-20.
He mentioned whereas the City was in a “good financial position, the operating results are not sustainable in the longterm”.
However, Mayor Albert Jacob mentioned the council and City administration had labored laborious to ship a budget that was achievable regardless of the working challenges.
“When you consider the vast majority of our ratepayers will be paying less in their rates charge than they did two years ago, coupled with one of the most ambitious capital build programs the City of Joondalup has ever seen, I believe this is a very good budget,” he mentioned.
“We are also paying down the very small amount of debt we have left, we have very healthy reserves and we are running with a cash surplus.”
This yr’s budget additionally continues measures to mitigate the impression of COVID-19.
“COVID-19 measures to stimulate the economy by investing in infrastructure remain particularly important, with building costs likely to escalate in the next three to four years,” he mentioned.
“Most of the infrastructure we are investing in was on the books anyway, and it’s not going to get cheaper.”
Mr Jacob mentioned the budget had a “suite of projects, big and small, for everyone in our community” reminiscent of $200,000 for a parkour discipline at Whitfords Nodes, $210,000 for BMX monitor upgrades, $15,000 for a consuming fountain at Gibson Park “for man’s best friend”, $40,000 for a playspace at Macaulay Park, Duncraig and $52,000 for lighting on the Mirror Park skate park in Ocean Reef.
Following current council choices, the budget will even embrace $125,000 for an inside useful resource and $250,000 to interact an exterior marketing consultant crew to evaluation of the City’s Local Housing Strategy, and $50,000 every to design improve works at Clifford Coleman Park, Marmion and a feasibility and idea design for a skate park at Percy Doyle Reserve.
However, the council report additionally states that with the continued discount to charges income and vital capital works, there is no such thing as a capability for the City to undertake or implement unbudgeted or unplanned works in 2021-22.
While deputy mayor Russ Fishwick mentioned it was a “responsible budget in the current economic environment”, Cr Russell Poliwka once more raised considerations with the City’s worker prices and particularly the wages of “high level management”.
“I’m concerned we’re not doing the hard yards where we need to. We could have had a 0 per cent rate increase,” he mentioned.
“The budget is good but we can do better. Now we have the opportunity to get stuck into the expenditure over the next 12 months.”
Cr Suzanne Thompson even issued an apology to ratepayers.
“I did attend all six sessions and I tried my best to come away from the process with absolute confidence that we are delivering the best value for our ratepayers and I still don’t know if we are or when we examined where efficiencies could be found,” she mentioned.
“I don’t know when the ideas for reducing costs were put forward. And maybe I should have done it but I didn’t feel sufficiently across the operations and how they run to say where such savings could be found, even after six budget sessions.
“Therefore, I apologise I can’t be more confident in what we’re putting forward. It has a lot of merit but I hope next year I can say we are delivering all the efficiencies.
However, Cr Tom McLean said they had “done the best we could”.
“We are a service organisation. To save money, we have to reduce services,” he mentioned.
2021-22 budget highlights:
$7.2 million for Craigie Leisure Centre
$2.8 million for Chichester Park, Woodvale clubrooms
$1.1 million for Warwick Bowling and Greenwood Tennis clubrooms
$2.5 million for streetlighting within the Joondalup metropolis centre
$2.8 million for parks and playground gear, shelters, barbecues and irrigation
$2.2 million for streetscape and landscaping works, together with the Leafy City program
$1.8 million to refurbish and improve City-owned buildings
$21.3 million for roads, drainage, paths, bridges and parking amenities, together with blackspot tasks at Marmion Avenue and Ocean Reef Road, intersection upgrades at Warwick and Erindale roads and Joondalup and Hodges drives and a Shenton Avenue improve design
$3.2 million to evaluate constructing permits from swimming swimming pools to business tasks
$1.9 million for cultural occasions together with Joondalup Festival, Valentine’s Concert, Invitation Art Prize, Community Art Exhibition, Music within the Park and Little Feet
$319,000 for building of a restaurant or restaurant in Burns Beach
$50,000 for a feasibility and idea design for a skate park at Percy Doyle Reserve
Budget highlights by suburb:
BELDON
Ocean Reef Road/Gwendoline Drive intersection improve ($247,600 – consists of grant funding)
Harriet Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($78,000)
Marlin Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($44,000)
Gwendoline Drive median improve ($25,000)
BURNS BEACH
Burns Beach cafe building ($319,000)
Burns Beach coastal node redevelopment ($97,000)
CONNOLLY
Huntingdale Park playspace renewal ($150,900)
Connolly Community Centre works ($140,000 – consists of grant funding)
Diablo Way/Fairway Circle roundabout works ($60,000 – consists of grant funding)
Riviera Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($31,000)
CRAIGIE
Craigie Leisure Centre upgrades ($7,247,000)
Marmion Avenue/Coral Street intersection improve ($486,200 – consists of grant funding)
Fenellia Crescent resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($211,000)
Electra Street/Fantome Road intersection remedy ($130,000)
Macedon Place sump beautification ($130,000)
Montreal Street resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($99,000)
Otway Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($79,000)
Warrandyte Park common entry bathroom ($65,000 – consists of grant funding)
CURRAMBINE
Connolly Drive/Sussex Way roundabout works ($63,633 – consists of grant funding)
Sunlander Drive/Citadel Way roundabout works ($38,000 – consists of grant funding)
Sunlander Drive/Currambine Boulevard roundabout works ($38,000 – consists of grant funding)
Caledonia Avenue path alternative from Sussex Way to Yorkshire Grove ($36,000)
Caledonia Park irrigation renewal ($30,000)
DUNCRAIG
Percy Doyle Reserve floodlighting upgrades ($625,221)
Sorrento Bowling Club artificial turf conversion ($464,244 – consists of grant funding)
Glengarry Park irrigation renewal ($240,000)
Mildenhall refurbishment ($134,864)
Lilburne Road resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($206,000 – consists of grant funding)
Buckthorn Way and Buckthorn Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($127,000)
Wittenoom Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($62,000)
Meryll Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($61,000)
Malipo Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($54,000)
Vigors Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($47,000)
Barre Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($37,000)
Readshaw Road parking bays and pedestrian upgrades ($90,000 – consists of grant funding)
Coolibah Park playspace renewal ($74,000)
Macaulay Park playspace set up ($40,000)
Duncraig Child Health Centre works ($50,000)
Killen/Sycamore Park amenity upgrades ($25,000)
EDGEWATER
Emerald Park neighborhood facility improve ($740,000)
Joondalup Drive resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($307,955 – consists of grant funding)
Treetop Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($205,000 – consists of grant funding)
The Loop resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($189,000 – consists of grant funding)
Vista Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($158,000 – consists of grant funding)
Settler Way resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($151,000 – consists of grant funding)
GREENWOOD
Calectasia Street resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($184,000 – consists of grant funding)
Warner Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($104,000)
Installation of splitter island at nook of Sherington Road and Garfield Way ($65,000)
Coolibah Drive/Orkney Road roundabout works ($56,000 – consists of grant funding)
Tingle Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($44,000)
Grove Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($26,000)
HEATHRIDGE
Poseidon Park revitalisation ($115,000)
Littorina Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($148,000 – consists of grant funding)
Peninsula Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($133,000 – consists of grant funding)
Squire Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($89,000)
Nemesia Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($40,000)
Scallop Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($37,000)
Dolium Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($25,000)
HILLARYS
Pinnaroo Point parking enhancements ($513,133)
Installation of a ‘warrior park’ at Whitfords Nodes Health and Wellbeing Hub ($200,000)
Upgrade of lighting to LED ($80,000)
Whitford Library and Senior Citizens Centre refurbishment works ($20,000)
ILUKA
Marmion Avenue path improve from Delamere Avenue to Burns Beach Road ($465,000 – consists of grant funding)
Ocean Gate and Santa Monica irrigation infrastructure renewal ($170,000)
Iluka Beach Park carpark renewal ($165,000 – consists of grant funding)
Upgrade of lighting to LED ($150,000 – consists of grant funding)
Burns Beach Road/Delgado Parade roundabout works ($78,000 – consists of grant funding)
JOONDALUP
City centre lighting infrastructure alternative ($2,523,292)
Joondalup Drive/Hodges Drive intersection improve ($2,444,800 – consists of grant funding)
Shenton Avenue improve design from Mitchell Freeway to Joondalup Drive ($1,130,000 – consists of grant funding)
Joondalup Drive streetscape upgrades, resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($656,778 – consists of grant funding)
City centre streetscape renewal program ($511,540)
Boas Avenue intersection enhancements ($317,088)
Shenton Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($200,000 – consists of grant funding)
Blue Mountain Drive lighting enchancment ($135,000)
Regents Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Winton Road/Cord Street roundabout works ($73,000 – consists of grant funding)
Windermere Park parking enhancements ($60,000)
Davidson Terrace resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($60,000 – consists of grant funding)
Candlewood Park path lighting ($55,000)
Cord Street resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($53,000 – consists of grant funding)
Kendrew Crescent/ECU carpark entrance roundabout works ($50,000 – consists of grant funding)
Neil Hawkins Park improve ($45,000)
Candlewood Boulevard/Brienz Drive roundabout works ($38,000 – consists of grant funding)
Burns Beach Road path carpark entry ($35,000)
Blue Mountain Drive/Yellowstone Way intersection enhancements ($28,000 – consists of grant funding)
Grand Boulevard bus precedence lanes between Shenton Avenue and Collier Pass ($25,000)
Lakeside Drive path improve east of Aldgate Street ($22,000)
Blackfriars Road resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($18,000)
KALLAROO
Maritana Road resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($210,000)
Kiernan Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Stanford Park sump beautification ($10,000)
KINGSLEY
Whitfords Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($456,192 – consists of grant funding)
Whitfords Avenue/Kingsley Drive intersection improve ($367,800 – consists of grant funding)
Montessori Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works, set up of splitter island ($209,000 – consists of grant funding)
Kingsley Drive resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($190,270 – consists of grant funding)
Chelsea Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Kingsley Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Goollelal Drive/Robertson Road cycleway crossing ($85,000 – consists of grant funding)
Bowes Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($44,000)
Pinner Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($39,000)
Vance Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($38,000)
Hahn Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($34,000)
Kiah Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($30,000)
Picasso Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($26,000)
Burke Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($23,000)
Improvement to path connection at Creaney Drive/Kidbrooke Way intersection ($17,000)
KINROSS
Selkirk Drive parking set up and median remedies ($235,000)
Marmion Avenue path alternative from Edinburgh Avenue to Burns Beach Road ($100,000)
Callander Avenue/Broughton Heights roundabout works ($40,000)
MARMION
Finney Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Parnell Avenue/Sheppard Way roundabout works ($48,000 – consists of grant funding)
MULLALOO
Charonia Park bore and irrigation community renewal ($330,000)
Mullaloo Drive cul de sac parking and path enhancements at southern finish of Laurel Street ($95,000 – consists of grant funding)
Koombana Way resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($83,000)
Pearsall Gardens resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($66,000)
Volute Place resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($49,000)
OCEAN REEF
Coastal shared path improve from West View Boulevard to south of Ocean Reef Marina ($1,155,000 – consists of grant funding)
Marmion Avenue new shared path on western verge from Prendiville Avenue to Shenton Avenue) ($415,000 – consists of grant funding)
Mirror Park Skate Park set up of lighting ($52,500)
Reconstruction of Ocean Reef Park bathrooms and changerooms, irrigation system improve ($90,000)
PADBURY
Whitfords Avenue/Gibson Avenue intersection improve ($826,113 – consists of grant funding)
MacDonald Park floodlighting improve ($397,583 – consists of grant funding)
Newcombe Park amenity enchancment ($390,000 – consists of grant funding)
Marmion Avenue/Forrest Road intersection works ($269,600 – consists of grant funding)
Gibson Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($160,000)
Wentworth Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Simpson Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Leichhardt Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Byrne Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($114,000)
Gibson Avenue/Pinnaroo Drive roundabout works ($43,000 – consists of grant funding)
Gibson Avenue/Giles Avenue roundabout works ($58,000 – consists of grant funding)
Gibson Park consuming fountain ($15,000)
Revitalisation of laborious and tender infrastructure at Wentworth Park, enhancements at Fraser Park and Byrne Park ($10,000)
SORRENTO
Quay Court sump retaining wall renewal ($385,000)
Albacore Drive resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($260,000)
Parker Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($154,000)
Porteous Road resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($140,000)
Kempenfeldt Avenue resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($136,000)
Seacrest Drive resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($135,000 – consists of grant funding)
Haynes Road resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($131,000 – consists of grant funding)
Byrne Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($114,000)
Seacrest Park common entry bathroom ($55,000 – consists of grant funding)
Ford Street resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($39,000)
Reef Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($29,000)
Sorrento Foreshore irrigation works ($22,000)
WARWICK
Refurbishment of Warwick Bowling and Greenwood Tennis clubrooms ($1,154,460)
Warwick Road/Erindale Road intersection improve ($450,000 – consists of grant funding)
Ballantine Road resurfacing and rehabilitation works and drainage improve ($162,000 – consists of grant funding)
Chelsford Park playspace renewal ($120,900)
Warwick Open Space bushland path renewals ($100,000)
Ellersdale Park parking enhancements and leisure lighting ($80,000 – consists of grant funding)
WOODVALE
Chichester Park clubrooms redevelopment ($2,871, 769 – consists of grant funding)
Whitfords Avenue streetscape upgrades from Trappers Drive to Wanneroo Road ($300,000)
Shannon Close resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($62,000)
Maple Hill Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($59,000)
Tara Court resurfacing and rehabilitation works ($59,000)
Timbercrest Rise/Trailwood Drive roundabout works ($48,265 – consists of grant funding)
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