2021-09-07 Services & Organisation Committee Meeting Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                              7 SEPTEMBER 2021


6     REPORTS FOR NOTING BY THE COMMITTEE

4     NOOSA AQUATIC CENTRE (NAC) – FULL YEAR REPORT TO 30 JUNE 2021

Author            Noosa Aquatic Centre Coordinator, Stephen James
                  Community Services Department

Index             ECM/ Subject/ 72.02 Noosa Aquatic Centre

Attachments       Nil


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Noosa Aquatic Centre Coordinator to the Services &
Organisation Committee meeting dated 7 September 2021, providing an end of year update on the
activities of the Noosa Aquatic Centre for the 2020/21 financial year.


REPORT

The purpose of this report is to advise Councillors of the Noosa Aquatic Centre’s (NAC) activities
for the financial year ending 30 June 2021.

The NAC comprises a 50m Olympic-sized pool, 25m pool, leisure pool, fitness studio, change
rooms and associated amenities. The NAC also oversees the maintenance of the Sunshine Beach
Skate Park.

The NAC provides a broad range of aquatic and leisure programs including recreational swimming,
learn to swim (LTS) programs, elite squad training, aqua aerobics and water polo, as well as circuit
classes and general gym usage in the fitness studio.

1.    FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

The objective of all services within the Community Facilities branch is to balance the demands of
access, equity and community service obligations with sound financial management and to
improve revenue through innovative and entrepreneurial approaches, whilst minimising operational
costs.

It is important to note that Covid-19, its associated operating restrictions and the general
uncertainty around how facilities would be able to operate throughout the year had a significant
impact on the reported financial performance of all of Council’s community facilities in 2020/21. A
large component of this impact related to the difficulty of setting accurate budgets prior to the
commencement of the year, given the high level of operating uncertainty at the time. Despite
making some budget adjustments following completion of the third quarter there was ultimately still
a level of variability between budgeted and actual financial performance. Given this situation it may
be more meaningful to gauge the year’s performance by comparing to previous years’ results than
against budget.




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