In the first week of the new financial year, here’s a taste of what Council says it will achieve in the next 12 months.
The plan is set out in Council’s three year “delivery program” or operational plan and budget adopted at the June 28 meeting – and there are more than 500 pages so this really is only a taste.
# Before Christmas, we should see a draft master plan for the airport at Warnervale and
# three options for the Gosford waterfront.
Council also intends completing:
# Integrated Transport Strategy to be adopted by this time next year
# a housing strategy
# Heritage Review
# Central Coast Thematic History
# District Place Plan for Wyong
# District Place Plan for The Peninsula.
# Rural Lands Study by June 30, 2024
# Rural Lands Strategy by 30 June, 2025.
# 30 per cent of residential development applications (housing, dual occupancy and secondary dwellings) to be determined within 40 days – that’s gross calendar days – this year, increasing to 35 per cent in year two and to 40 per cent in year three of this current operational plan.
# Council says it is allocating money saved from vacant positions to be temporarily invested in critical service areas, such as: resourcing to improve development assessment times; roads maintenance; vegetation management; and to fund the development of Plans of Management for Crown land.
# The Central Coast Stadium is getting a lot of money spent on it to upgrade coolrooms; upgrade fire control services and to renovate food areas, just to name a few.
# Sewer Infrastructure Reinforcements in the Gosford CBD will get $12M spent with Water Infrastructure Reinforcements also near the Gosford CBD allocated $2.8M.
# The upgrade of the Mardi Water Treatment Plant is allocated $6.7M.
# Water Infrastructure at Warnervale Town Centre has been amended from an allocation of $1.7M down to $450,000 to align with IPART’s water and sewerage determination on prices.
# The design phase of a new Regional Animal Care Facility has been allocated $100,000.
# Construction for the Gosford Regional Library will start this year with $26M to be spent on it over the next two years.
# Pathway construction at Magenta and Tuggerawong will continue.
# Playspace upgrades are planned for Wyongah, Blue Haven, Berkeley Vale, Koolewong, Tuggerah, and Killarney Vale.
# Road upgrades at Woy Woy, Lisarow, Budgewoi and Shelly Beach.
# Gross pollutant trap works at Toukley, Copacabana, East Gosford, and Halekulani.
# investigation of a processing solution for food organics and garden organics (FOGO).
And last but not least: Council says it will have the minutes of the Local Traffic Committee meetings published on its website within two weeks of the meeting being held.
All up, Council plans to have:
- $597.7M in Operating Income
- $587.9M in Operating Expenditure
- $9.8M Net Operating Result (excluding Capital Grants and Contributions)
- $75.9M in Capital Grants and Contributions
You can read the operational plan on the council website here: https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/delivery-program-and-operational-plan
