A presentation of the Draft Operational Plan 2015/16

1. Community presentation
Draft Operational Plan 2015/16
20 May 2015

2. We will talk about …
• Operational Plan 2015/16 – significant actions
• 2015/16 Budget
• Improving productivity
• Fees and Charges
• Questions and discussion
• Next steps

3. 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

4. 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

5. Action highlights

6. Five themes
 Proud People, Great Lifestyle
 Our Built Space
 Our Natural Environment
 A prosperous and Vibrant City
 Connected and Collaborative Community Leaders

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 2015/16 Budget
Significant items

14. 2015/16 Budget - Balanced
Income 110,436,000
Expenditure 110,443,000
Net surplus 7,000

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Capital Works Program 2015/16

21. 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

22. Questions and discussion

23. 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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