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City of Sydney Annual Report 2015 City of Sydney Annual Report Statutory Returns 2015-16 Contents Message from the Lord Mayor 3 Message from the CEO 5 About Sydney 6 About the City of Sydney 8 Legislative requirements 12 Legend $ Cost °C Degrees Celsius Ha Hectare Kg Kilograms kL Kilolitres LED Light Emitting Diode LGA Local Government Area M3 Cubic metre ML Megalitres Mm Millimetre MWh Megawatt hour t Tonne tCo2e Tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent 2015/16/Statutory Returns Message from the Lord Mayor The City of Sydney is powering. And the $13 billion Green Square This year we We have a strong financial position with development – one of the biggest no debt, and over the last 12 years the urban developments in the country – continued our City’s economy has grown by 80 per is progressing well under our leadership. cent, or $50 billion. In that time we’ve We are investing $540 million on new strong action on approved $26 billion worth of development infrastructure and facilities and this year and there’s an unprecedented $30–40 construction began on our new creative climate change, billion investment in private development hub, stormwater harvesting scheme and expected over the next decade. town centre. launching This strong financial position has enabled Through this process of development us to invest $1.2 billion in infrastructure we’ve become one of the fastest growing and community facilities since 2004, residential areas in NSW and job growth “Environmental completing over 250 projects including in our area is increasing at twice the playgrounds, pools, libraries, theatres, rate of metropolitan Sydney. 2000 new Action 2016 – childcare centres and community spaces. businesses have opened creating 50,000 Among the many completed projects this new jobs and our area has contributed 2021”, a plan that year were the $40 million refurbishment of 40 per cent of all employment growth in Sydney Town Hall and three new childcare metropolitan Sydney. consolidates our centres in Alexandria, Darlinghurst and Our visitor numbers also continue to grow Annandale. We have a $1.8 billion budget – in the past year, the number of visitors for new projects and facilities over the next was 22% higher than for 2007 and the achievements and ten years. number of visitor nights 40% higher for Our CBD is thriving, with an all-time high the same period. sets ambitious in building activity resulting in lodged This year we continued our strong development applications and concept action on climate change, launching targets to continue plans for projects valued at a record “Environmental Action 2016 – 2021”, a plan $7.45 billion – an increase of more than that consolidates our achievements and our strong action 64 per cent over the previous year sets ambitious targets to continue our (also a record year). In September we strong action over the next five years. over the next released new planning controls for Central We’re proposing a target of net zero Sydney – the most comprehensive urban emissions for the local government area planning strategy for the CBD in 45 years by 2050 and an increase of 50 per cent in five years. – to ensure this development protects the use of renewables by 2030. We’re also solar access and public amenity while committing to reducing emissions across unlocking 2.9 million square metres of our own organisation by 44 per cent and Clover Moore, Lord Mayori floorspace that could provide for 100,000 increasing our own use of renewables new jobs and 10,000 new homes. by 50 per cent by 2021. These targets will help us achieve our overall target of a 70 per cent reduction in emissions (on 2006 levels) by 2030. Sydney2030/Green/Global/Connected We are continuing to work on alternative I want to pay tribute to my friend Councillor We’ve continued transport modes and we have already Robyn Kemmis, who we lost this past year. completed 110 km of our 200 km cycling Robyn was a dedicated and skilled elected our commitment network including separated cycle ways; representative, a tremendously effective shared paths and other interventions in and committed councillor who earned the smaller streets. This year we focused on respect and love of our residential, business to Sydney’s building and upgrading our 10 priority and education communities. I’m proud to regional routes, creating greater linkages say we are in the process of naming a park creative and between cycleways within the city and in Glebe, where she lived and had a long connecting with neighbouring councils. commitment, Robyn Kemmis Reserve. cultural life, We’ve continued our commitment to I’d like to thank our City staff, under the Sydney’s creative and cultural life, leadership of Monica Barone, who do such investing over investing over $34 million each year, a fantastic job across the whole range of through grants and sponsorship and our activities to keep our City powering. $34 million each supporting major events like the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Sydney Film Festival and year, through Mardi Gras. And this year we celebrated 30 years of grants and friendship with our Chinese sister city Guangzhou. We marked the anniversary Clover Moore with a week of events in Sydney and by Lord Mayor Sydney sponsorship. taking our largest overseas delegation ever to China, including representatives from Sydney businesses, universities and Clover Moore, Lord Mayori the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Despite this success, there is no question this is a critical time for our City. It is increasingly clear that our state and federal governments don’t understand or respect the values and aspirations of our inner Sydney communities. We will continue to fight the destructive WestConnex toll-road and proposed overdevelopment at Central-to-Eveleigh. We will continue to push for a more nuanced approach to our night time economy and for increased services, such as schools and public transport, in growing communities. 2015/16/Statutory Returns Message from the CEO The 2015/2016 Annual Report outlines gender pay equity. The analysis found the The City of Sydney the continuing work of our organisation to City has a relatively small overall gender pay deliver on the strategic direction defined in gap of 2.5 per cent, compared to a national was this year, the our Community Strategic Plan, Sustainable gender pay gap of 17.3 per cent and public Sydney 2030, and to achieve the targets sector pay gap of 12 per cent. first council in contained in that Plan while remaining a Council endorsed our first Reconciliation financially sustainable organisation. Action Plan which identifies what we will do Australia to report We could not achieve the extraordinary to further the goal of reconciliation focusing depth and breadth of that work without our on building respect, forging relationships, publicly on gender dedicated staff. and creating opportunities for Aboriginal and Over the last twelve months we’ve Torres Strait Islander people. Our staff have pay equity. The focussed on our people and the culture established an Aboriginal and Torres Strait of our organisation, continuing to develop Islander Staff Forum providing an opportunity analysis found our diverse and inclusive workplace, for them to network, hear each other’s stories, strengthening our healthy workforce, and talk about what they’d like to do next, and the City has a prioritising employment engagement and how they might go about it. performance, and building the capability We’ve enhanced our focus on having a relatively small of our staff. mentally healthy workforce. We support We’ve developed a leadership and RUOK? Day, encourage our staff to have overall gender management capability framework which regular conversations about mental clearly sets out the expectations we health and wellbeing and provide training pay gap of 2.5 per have of all the people managers in our in supporting people’s mental health organisation, be they Directors, Managers and wellbeing. cent, compared to or Team Leaders. Our focus is now on All of these programs, aided by our clear training, coaching and other support to Purpose – Lead, Govern and Serve, and our a national gender ensure our managers continue to develop values – Collaboration, Courage, Integrity, their leadership and management skills. Innovation, Quality and Respect, enable us pay gap of 17.3 per The City has a diverse community and to support our dedicated and capable staff. a diverse workforce. It’s important to The quality of our staff and their work is cent and public me as the CEO, and to the Executive, demonstrated in many ways, but particularly that our workforce is inclusive and when our projects and programs continue to sector pay gap of promotes diversity. win national and international awards – for To improve our awareness of the needs capital works projects such as the Sydney 12 per cent. of staff with disability, we now offer Park Water Reuse Project, online services disability awareness training and training such as the What’s On website, National for carers, managers and staff helps us all Procurement Awards for our staff and a Special Mention in the Lee Kuan Yew World Monica Barone, Chief Executive Officeri understand what it means to be a carer and how we can all support those who have City Prize 2016, as an example. carer responsibilities. I congratulate all the City’s staff on their We’ve joined Pride in Diversity, a national continued commitment to delivering for and not-for-profit employer support program on behalf of our communities and achieving for LGBTQI inclusion and established the ambitious goals we’ve set ourselves in an LGBTQI Staff Forum to ensure Sustainable Sydney 2030. the City continues to be a LGBTQI- friendly workplace. The City of Sydney was this year, the first council in Australia to report publicly on Monica Barone, Chief Executive Officer Sydney2030/Green/Global/Connected About Sydney Defining Sydney The area The economy1 For clarity, the City of Sydney (or The City of Sydney local government area Sydney is the financial and business the City) refers to the council as an (LGA) covers 26.15 square kilometres.
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