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Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 | 1 2019/2020 Annual Report Kentish Council Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 | 1 Kentish Council PO Box 63 (69 High Street) SHEFFIELD TAS 7306 P: 6491 0200 F: 6491 1659 E: [email protected] W: www.kentish.tas.gov.au Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 | 2 WELCOME CONTENTS THE YEAR IN REVIEW 4 The Kentish Council proudly presents the Mayor & General Manager’s Welcome 5 2019/20 Annual Report to the Community. Performance at a Glance 6 Kentish Profile 7 The Annual Report highlights Council’s A Year in Kentish 8 performance against the 2019/20 Annual Plan Activity Overview 9 and Budget. Financial Overview 15 OUR PERFORMANCE 25 The Annual Plan and Budget sets out 18 strategic Infrastructure 27 objectives grouped under four categories: Economic & Community Development 35 1. Infrastructure; Governance & Organisational Development 40 2. Economic and Community Development; Planning & Development 46 3. Governance and Organisational Development; and GOVERNANCE 51 4. Planning and Development Corporate Governance 52 against which Council’s performance is measured. Our Councillors 57 Our Organisation 61 Section 72 of the Local Government Act 1993 Our Staff 62 requires all councils to prepare an Annual Report Our Volunteers 64 including prescribed content. Workplace Health & Safety 65 Legislative Reporting 66 As well as meeting this statutory requirement, General Reporting 70 Council sees the Annual Report as a great opportunity to keep residents and stakeholders FINANCIAL REPORT 73 informed about its performance and future direction. The report demonstrates the breadth of Council’s operations and identifies achievements and challenges during the 2019/20 financial year. The Annual Report also provides a comprehensive and externally audited financial report. Feedback Feedback or questions relating to the annual report are welcome. Email: [email protected] Post: General Manager Kentish Council PO Box 63, SHEFFIELD TAS 7306 The Annual Report is available in a range of formats and can also be viewed electronically on Council’s website www.kentish.tas.gov.au Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 | 3 The Year in Review Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 | 4 Mayor and General Manager’s Welcome It is with much pleasure that we present this annual report in which, despite the impacts of COVID-19 on Council operations, we were one of a few Councils in Tasmania that finished with an underlying surplus for the year ($385,000). We take this opportunity to thank all Council employees for the manner in which we worked together to address the daily challenges that were forced upon us and the community by the outbreak of COVID-19. There was great angst and uncertainty within the community and in the Council office, however we supported each other and continued to provide the day-to-day services expected and required by our residents and visitors to the area. The COVID-19 Incident Management Team did an outstanding job in keeping not only employees and the elected members notified of the day-to-day changes in restrictions being imposed, but also provided a very reliable source of information to the community through Council’s Facebook page and website. Work continued on planning and implementing several major projects, including the Wild Mersey Mountain Bike Trails, the Wilmot and Sheffield streetscapes and a new road access to the Lorinna community. Work also continued on preparation of the Kentish Local Provisions for the Tasmanian Planning Scheme. Parks and Wildlife Tasmania opened the new Visitor Gateway precinct at Cradle Mountain which is a magnificent improvement on the previous facilities. Another potential economic development opportunity for Kentish is pumped hydro as part of the Battery of the Nation Project, with Council receiving updates during the year from Hydro Tasmania regarding potential pumped hydro development in Kentish. Work also continued on the design of the Railton Flood Mitigation Project. The Council’s engagement with the communities was severely interrupted in the second part of the year with the COVID-19 restrictions. Several major events were also cancelled, however Steamfest and the Taste of the North West were an outstanding success and one of the last major events to be held in Tasmania prior to the COVID shutdowns. The prudent financial management of the Council over many years placed the Council in a strong position to respond to the challenges encountered as a result of COVID-19. Council agreed to a zero rate increase for the 2020/21 financial year and also joined with other Councils across the State by adopting a Financial Hardship Policy where businesses could apply for up to a six month rebate of their rates and charges based on eligibility criteria. Council continues to embed resource sharing with Latrobe Council into its operations through the implementation of a new IT system. The implementation has been challenging, particularly continuing to deliver business as usual services with a relatively small workforce. Thank you to staff for their ongoing support and commitment during this period of significant change. A big thank you to all the volunteers and community organisations that help make the Kentish area such a wonderful place to live. Finally, thank you to the Councillors who served the community of Kentish during the 2019/20 financial year. You can be proud of the achievements detailed in this report. The Council has functioned well despite the need to have online meetings. Councillors have worked well together over this period and have earned large scale support in the community. Tim Wilson Gerald Monson Mayor General Manager Kentish Council Annual Report 2016/17 | 5 Mayor Tim Wilson Gerald Monson Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 | 5 Performance at a Glance Achievements Challenges Year Ahead Infrastructure . Commenced Stage One of the . Council set a . Construct the Wilmot Streetscape Project. substantial works extension of Wilks . Upgraded and extended the program for the year Road into Lorinna. Sheffield and Railton with most projects . Implement Railton stormwater reticulation either being Flood Mitigation systems. completed or well recommendations. Developed a Master Plan for progressed. Undertake Stage future use of the Senior One improvements Citizens building. at the Wilmot Cemetery. Economic and . Progressed actions identified in . Supporting local . Administer new Community the Economic Development businesses and Business Recovery Development Strategy 2015-2020. industry during and Grants developed to . Purchased land to enable the after the COVID-19 assist businesses expansion of the Redwater pandemic which recover from the Creek Railway site. caused a large number COVID-19 pandemic. of businesses to temporarily close. Governance . Expanded resource-sharing . Implementation of . Continue to align and with Latrobe Council to common enterprise business processes Organisational underpin all service delivery software across across Kentish and Development activities of Council. Kentish and Latrobe Latrobe Councils so Council. wherever possible there is a single way of doing things. Regulatory . Finalised the local planning . Increasing demand on . Undertake action and provisions for the Tasmanian resources as a result required to finalise Development Planning Scheme. of non-compliance the new State-wide . Promoted responsible dog with building and Planning Scheme. ownership including planning . Contribute towards compliance with the Dog requirements. the Dogs Home of Control Act 2000 and . Dangerous Dog Tasmania Critical Council’s Dog Management legislation requires Infrastructure Policy. review to enable Program. Council to proceed with confidence in declaring dogs dangerous as court outcomes are becoming unpredictable. Kentish Council Annual Report 2019/20 6 Kentish Profile The Kentish Municipality is located inland on the eastern North-West Coast of Tasmania bordering the municipal areas of Latrobe, Devonport City, Central Coast, Meander Valley, West Coast and Waratah-Wynyard councils. Kentish is known as ‘Tasmania’s Outdoor Art Gallery’ for its beautiful countryside, majestic mountains and its three themed townships: Sheffield - Town of Murals, Railton - Town of Topiary and Wilmot - Valley of Views. Kentish has a population of 6,324, comprised of Our Localities 51% males and 49% females with a median age of Kentish’s localities include Sheffield, Railton, South 48 years. Spreyton, Acacia Hills, Barrington, Lower Barrington, Nook, Nowhere Else, Merseylea, Overall, 80% of Kentish residents were born in Sunnyside, Stoodley, Beulah, Lower Beulah, Australia. Paradise, Claude Road, Gowrie Park, West Kentish, Roland, Staverton, Promised Land, Lower Wilmot, The three biggest industry employers in Kentish Wilmot, Erriba, Moina, Lorinna, Middlesex, are Accommodation (4.4%), Aged Care (3.7%) and Cethana and Cradle Mountain. Road Freight Transport (3.2%). Fast Facts Median employee income for Kentish residents is Area 1,187 sq km $51,740 per annum. Road Distances 471 km Sealed 273 km Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016 – 2018. Unsealed 198 km Number of Bridges/ Major Culverts 104 Our History Rateable Properties 3,684 Nathaniel Kentish was appointed as a contract surveyor in 1841 to survey areas on the North- Value of Properties (AAV) $45.66M West Coast of Tasmania and in August 1842 he Number of Electors 4,558 discovered a large grassy plain which later went on Operating Expenditure $10.61M to be known as ‘Kentish Plains’. Businesses 501 Visitors to Sheffield 130,957
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