Capital Program 2025 - 2026 Delivery Status Report

Karen Finzel16:34

Fantastic, that's great. It's a great mechanism to show us how well all levels of government work and how our voice a local level really can carry some punch and we can, you know, hit beyond our weight and have a really good voice at all the tables and the ministers' ears, so that's great. Thanks everyone. Would you like to comment before we close, before we take it to the vote? We'll take it to the vote? Yes. That's all in favour, including online, Councillor Jess. Thanks everybody. Moving into agenda item 8.2, capital program 2025-26, delivery status report. We welcome to the table Chris Steele and Mel Sheppard. Thank you. Good afternoon. And we have Sean online, so if you could give us a quick overview of the report, which was. Comprehensive, love to see the expenditure and the work being done across the Shire, which is great, so I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say.

Thank you. You're welcome. Report, to give a summary of the report, it provides a status update on Noosa Council's capital works program for the 25-26 financial year, excluding disaster works. The approved capital budget as per budget review 1 is $65 million, inclusive of $13.4 million worth of carry-forwards. Actual expenditure at the end quarter 1 was $5.5 million, representing 9% of the budget, with $13.1 million in commitments, cumulatively representing 29% of the budget. Grant funding revenue for the year is $16.4 million, with Council contributing $17 million toward those projects. And the program comprises.106 projects at various stages of planning, design and delivery. The planning, design and delivery team are currently managing 35 projects. To the value of $41 million. Project. The planning, design and delivery team continue to enhance the Council's project management framework and associated processes. The capital works planning team have commenced preparations on 26/27 budget process. And recruitment is underway to fill key roles within the infrastructure services department. To elaborate on that last point we also just wanted to acknowledge the additional resources that were approved as part of the budget adoption and provide an update that we've had some very successful recruitment within IPDD for different officers and managers contributing toward the success of the capital works program as it stands already just to appreciate that.