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GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING                                                          14 APRIL 2025



Consultancy Expenditure Summary
An update on consultancy expenditure is provided on a quarterly basis.
Consultancy costs are $330.1k over budget YTD (70.8% or $1.5 million of $2.1 million annual
budget spent). Consultancy expenditure varies across Council and is generally of a specialist
nature to supplement or complement existing resources or is required in order to undertake
specific project works, as a result expenditure may fluctuate at different times.


Figure 6: Consultancy Expenditure over time




Figure 7: Consultancy Expenditure by Department – 5 year trend




Note: the above amounts relate to operational projects only and do not reflect consultancy
expenditure incurred in respect to capital projects.

Capital Revenue
Year to date Capital revenue of $52.1 million received comprises cash contributions from
developers ($1.0m) and capital grants ($49.3 million). Note that the timing of capital grant
receipts are generally dependent on the timing of grant conditions and also capital delivery
performance, and that the timing of the receipt of developer contributions (both cash and
contributed) is unpredictable.

Grants and subsidies are higher than prior years due to the receipt of funding from the
Queensland Reconstruction Authority for reconstruction works relating to the Black Mountain
landslip and several other flood impacted sites, which are currently under construction.




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