2021-03-09 Services & Organisation Committee Meeting Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    9 MARCH 2021


3    NOOSA AQUATIC CENTRE – HALF-YEAR REPORT TO 31 DECEMBER 2020


Author            Community Facilities Manager, Ash Saward
                  Community Facilities Department

Index             ECM/Subject/72.02 Noosa Aquatic Centre NAC

Attachments       Nil



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Community Facilities Manager to the Services & Organisation
Committee meeting dated 9 March 2021 providing an update on the activities of the Noosa Aquatic
Centre for the period 1 July to 31 December 2020.

REPORT
1.   Facility overview

The NAC comprises a 50m Olympic-sized pool, 25m pool, leisure pool, fitness studio, change rooms,
café, crèche 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, competitive squad training, aqua aerobics and water polo, as well as
circuit classes and general gym usage in the fitness studio.

2.   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 had a significant impact on the financial performance of all of
Council’s community facilities in the first half of 2020/21, mainly because operating restrictions
mandated by the State Government led to revenue reductions. That said, revenue budgets were
adjusted prior to the commencement of the year and these adjustments were based on a
conservative assumption that the facilities would not operate at all in Q1. The consequence of this
was that while revenue was down on prior corresponding periods, it was actually up against the
revised budgets.




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