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ENVIRONMENT ENTHUSIASTIC CLEAN SMART RICH SMART GREEN CITY OF HERITAGE SM ART PROSPECT COMMUNITY GREEN CITYRICH SMART GREENCLEAN RICH HERITAGEINNOVATIVE CLEAN ENVIRONMENT VIBRANT CITY SMART 2014/2015 CITY OF PROSPECT ANNUAL REPORT ENVIRONMENT Introduction Mayor’s Introduction 4 CEO’s Report 8 Our Council Elected Members 12 Council’s Representation Quota 15 Elected Member Remuneration 16 Elected Member Training 16 Meetings, Workshops, Panels and Committees 17 Community and Corporate Structure 19 Our Organisation Executive Management Team 22 Human Resource Management 23 Your Rates, Your City 24 CONTENTS Policy and Administration Documents 28 Information Statement 30 Around Our Community Library Services 34 Youth 35 Home and Community Care 38 Community Development 40 Volunteers 41 Arts Gallery and Events 41 Events 43 Around Our Streets CITY Community Safety 48 Development Assessment 50 City Planning 50 Our Economy Business and Economic Development 54 Our Businesses 55 Infrastructure and Asset Services Asset Management Strategy 60 City Maintenance 61 Environmental Sustainability 62 Corporate Services Financial Management 66 Rates and Property Administration 67 Information Technology 67 Appendices City of Prospect Financial Statements 70 Key performance Indicators for 2014/2015 134 Projection Key performance Indicators 2015/2016 146 EHA Annual Report 150 WasteCare SA Annual Report 177 2 CITY OF PROSPECT Annual Report 2014/2015 SMART ENVIRONMENT Introduction Mayor’s Introduction 4 VIBRANT RICH CEO’s Report 8 Our Council Elected Members 12 Council’s Representation Quota 15 ENTHUSIASTIC Elected Member Remuneration 16 Elected Member Training 16 Meetings, Workshops, Panels and Committees 17 CLEAN Community and Corporate Structure 19 SMART SMART Our Organisation A Vibrant Smart and Executive Management Team 22 Human Resource Management 23 RICH Your Rates, Your City 24 Innovative City GREEN HERITAGE Policy and Administration Documents 28 SM ART COMMUNITY Information Statement 30 GREEN Around Our Community An Engaged Library Services 34 Youth 35 RICH Home and Community Care 38 and Enthusiastic Community Development 40 Volunteers 41 Community Arts Gallery and Events 41 Events 43 Around Our Streets SMART CITYA Heritage RichCLEAN Clean Community Safety 48 Development Assessment 50 City Planning 50 Green Environment Our Economy Business and Economic Development 54 GREEN INNOVATIVE RICH Our Businesses 55 Infrastructure and Asset Services Asset Management Strategy 60 City Maintenance 61 Environmental Sustainability 62 Corporate Services Financial Management 66 Rates and Property Administration 67 Information Technology 67 Appendices HERITAGECLEAN City of Prospect Financial Statements 70 Key performance Indicators for 2014/2015 134 Projection Key performance Indicators 2015/2016 146 ENVIRONMENT EHA Annual Report 150 WasteCare SA Annual Report 177 3 CITY OF PROSPECT Annual Report 2014/2015 CITY SMART VIBRANT Welcome to the Annual Report for the 2014/2015 financial year. It was a year of change for Council with the elections in November seeing four members of our community become new councillors, joining four who were returned to office. This mixture of experience and new ideas has revitalised Council and redoubled our efforts to focus on serving our community to the best of our ability. Some major achievements for the year included Since 2012, Tourrific Prospect has been a firm the completion of Stage 2 of the Churchill Road Prospect favourite and Council’s flagship event. In Streetscape upgrade with integrated landscaping, 2015 it attracted over 21,000 people even without new paving and local features such as signage for a Santos Tour Down Under Stage. As our largest George Whittle Reserve, a local favourite for our event and community gathering, we delivered young skaters. our first ‘zero waste’ event with the support of 80 participating traders. We attracted seven new Flora Terrace was also reconstructed as part sponsors, and staff were assisted by 17 volunteers of the 2014/2015 Capital Works Program. The doing over 200 hours of volunteer service. Our reconstruction works included new kerbs, gutters, marketing plan achieved $135,000 in secondary pavement, slow points and the implementation advertising value and saw over $400,000 in direct of water sensitive urban design rain gardens, to income received by participating business, reflecting capture and utilise stormwater runoff. The finished in part a 20% increase in the number of local traders design also featured stamped asphalt entrances who participated in the event. Overall the event highlighted in bright red to mark Flora Terrace as achieved a $2.30 return for every $1 invested by the formal entry to Prospect Oval, the home of the Council - an amazing result and easily the most North Adelaide 'Roosters' Football Club. successful economic outcome of any of the events that Council hosted throughout the year. At Council's request, SA Power Networks (SAPN) began works on the under-grounding of power- The very popular Loopy Kids Ride was increased lines along Prospect Road (Stage 3 - between from 140 rider places to 210 riders and, despite Olive Street and Gordon Road). The project is the 50% increase, was again fully subscribed a partnership with SAPN Works and Stage 1 is before the event started! This made it Council's anticipated for completion in November 2015. largest event for kids and mirrored the popularity Following the under-grounding, the kerbs, gutters, of Tourrific Prospect, now the largest community footpaths and landscaping will be upgraded in event in the history of the city. stages over the next three years to complete the transformation of Prospect Road from Fitzroy The Prospect Digital Hub completed its Terrace to our northern boundary. This will funding agreement with the federal department complement the recent work by our northern of communications in February 2015 and neighbour and will result in the full length of transitioned to a council funded program. MAYOR’S INTRODUCTION MAYOR’S Prospect Road to Grand Junction Road being upgraded. The Digital Hub had a busy year with over 3,000 groups and 2,350 one to one sessions. It has The Footpath Reconstruction Program been incredibly popular since first opening continued with over 20 footpaths being upgraded its doors and has broken every performance throughout the city and the end of the program benchmark put before it. It’s a terrific initiative moving one year closer. that has provided many locals and volunteers with access to world class technology and training in a More than three times as many roads were friendly and supportive environment. resurfaced this year under the Road Resurfacing Program using spray seal road treatments, The achievements of the Hub would not have been a return to tried and true technology and the possible without the 20 active volunteers who method used to originally pave many of our roads. have been training the community in the Digital Hub, contributing over 44 hours per week. As an The controversial and challenging Pulsford Road added benefit, the Digital Hub assisted several slow points were removed and replaced with volunteers in finding employment this financial landscaped single lane slow points, ending years year and, furthermore, provided the Prospect of bad driving, accidents and incidents, whilst Centre special needs students with experienced providing a welcome increase in on-street parking. volunteers and technology so they could complete 4 their qualifications in hospitality and research. CITY OF PROSPECT Annual Report 2014/2015 Introduction Our Council Our Around Our Around Our Our Infrastructure Corporate Appendices Organisation Community Streets Economy & Asset Services Services 5 2014/2015 Annual Report CITY OF PROSPECT CITY OF PROSPECT The Digital Hub would not have been possible Throughout Prospect, we also saw the installation without grant funding received in last year's budget of five temporary public art works (leased for from the Commonwealth Government. This year 12 months) in our parks and public spaces that we received grants under the Roads to Recovery enliven, surprise and delight. program and our annual Financial Assistance Grants, in addition to a range of grants to fund To help commemorate the Centenary of Anzac services such as the Home and Community Care Day, Poppies for Prospect (a collaboration program. Total grant money received from the between Prospect Library and Gallery) was Commonwealth, timing issues aside, was in the led by Local History Officer Lianne Gould, order of $1.2m. Funds received from the State inspiring many locals to create thousands of Government were in the order of $0.57m. handmade poppies as tributes. Over 3,000 poppies were made by over 100 contributors, Funding from these other levels of government with contributors aged from six to 89 years. for the 2104/2015 year totalled $1.79m, or The poppies were stitched to a large net and 8.1% of our $22m annual budget. These funds are mounted to cascade from the finial of the original very welcome and assisted in keeping the average entrance to the heritage listed library building on residential rate rise to 4.5% (excluding growth), a Main North Road, with the spectacular display figure which would have been much higher had it attracting a great deal of attention and gratitude. not been for the grants. A Portrait of a City at War was a graphic The Prospect Gallery's Prospect Community display funded by a grant from the Department Show turned 18 this year. Remarkably, as it is a of Veterans