2020-09-08 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   8 SEPTEMBER 2020


3                        NOOSA AQUATIC CENTRE (NAC) - FULL YEAR REPORT TO 30 JUNE 2020
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                           Noosa Aquatic Centre Coordinator, Stephen James
                                 Community Services

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 8 September 2020, providing an end of year update on
the activities of the Noosa Aquatic Centre for the 2019/20 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 2020.

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.

Finance
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 while at the same time
seeking to minimise 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 2019/20, mainly because of the mandated centre closures
and associated loss of revenue from late March through to mid-June. The impacts of this will be
further explored throughout this report.

The NAC suffered additional financial disruption as a result of a planned maintenance shutdown
at the beginning of financial year. This shutdown commenced late June 2019 and extended
through to the beginning of September 2019. This period of closure combined with the COVID
shutdown meant that the NAC was only operating for 7 out of a possible 12 months in 2019/20,
with the financial implications of this being obvious in the year-end results.




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