2021-05-17 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                       17 MAY 2021


 Category                    Summary                  Comments
 Employee                    $27.4 million (79%)       Under expenditure for permanent staff salaries and wages
 Costs                       of the annual              ($2.4 million) partially offset by additional spend on casual staff
                             budget of $34.9            and external labour hire ($1.1 million) as well as overtime and
                             million has been           allowances ($216k)
                             expended                  Training expenditure $52k below YTD budget (24% or $80k of
                                                        $330k budget spent)
 Materials and               $35.2 million (76%)       Libraries services $112k below YTD budget (57.4% or $621k
 Services                    of the $46.6 million       of $1.1 million budget spent) – primarily due to timing of library
                             annual budget has          collection purchases and programs
                             been expended             Waste Management costs $62k below YTD budget (81.3% or
                                                        $8.1 million of $10.0 million budget spent) – collection bin
                                                        purchases lower than forecast (offset by lower revenue
                                                        recovery)
                                                       Council buildings and facilities $54k below YTD budget (56.9%
                                                        or $630k of $1.1 million budget spent) – timing of utilities as
                                                        well as scheduled maintenance and cleaning services
                                                       Natural Area costs $52k above YTD budget (59.7% or $795k
                                                        of $1.3million budget spent)
                                                       Holiday parks $52k above YTD budget (92.6% or $1.4 million
                                                        of $1.5 million budget spent) – variable operating costs
                                                        (including commissions) from parks reopening earlier than
                                                        budgeted following COVID-19 pandemic related closures -
                                                        offset by additional revenues
                                                       Development application costs $65k above YTD budget (114%
                                                        or $240k of $210k budget spent) – offset by additional
                                                        application revenues
 Finance Costs               On track                 Nil
 Depreciation                On track                 Nil
 Other                       On track                 Nil
 Expenses

Figure 3: Operating Expenditure Position by Type

$40.0
                                     $35.6 $35.2
                                                                               YTD Budget ($m)
$35.0
            $27.9 $27.4
                                                                               YTD Actual ($m)
$30.0
$25.0
$20.0                                                                                 $15.8 $15.8
$15.0
$10.0
 $5.0                                                       $1.3 $1.2                                    $0.2 $0.2
 $0.0
                                          Materials




                                                               Finance Costs




                                                                                          Depreciation
                 Employees




                                                                                                            Other




Capital Revenue
YTD capital revenue of $9.6 million received comprises cash contributions from developers ($1.9
million) and capital grants ($7.5 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

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