Annual Report 2019 2 Introduction
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2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 2 INTRODUCTION CONTENTS Introduction 4 Greater Bendigo profile 4 Snapshot of Council 5 Demographic profile 6 The year in review 7 Highlights of the year 8 Challenges and future outlook 15 Message from the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer 16 Financial summary 18 Description of operations 21 Our Council 22 Current councillors 22 Our people 24 Organisation structure 25 City staff 26 Equal employment opportunity 28 Other staff matters 29 Our performance 30 Planning and accountability framework 30 Council Plan 31 Performance 31 Goal 1: Lead and govern for all 32 Goal 2: Wellbeing and fairness 35 Goal 3: Strengthening the economy 41 Goal 4: Presentation and managing growth 43 Goal 5: Environmental sustainability 47 Goal 6: Embracing our culture and heritage 50 Governance, management and other information 51 Governance 51 Management 54 Governance and management checklist 55 Statutory information 58 Glossary 63 Financial and Performance Statements 2018/2019 65 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY The City of Greater Bendigo is on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country. We acknowledge and extend our appreciation for the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung People, the Traditional Owners of the land. We pay our respects to leaders and Elders past, present and emerging for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of all Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Peoples. We express our gratitude in the sharing of this land, our sorrow for the personal, spiritual and cultural costs of that sharing and our hope that we may walk forward together in harmony and in the spirit of healing. Annual Report 2018/2019 3 WELCOME TO THE REPORT OF OPERATIONS FOR 2018/2019 Council is committed to transparent reporting and accountability to the community. The Report of Operations for 2018/2019 is our primary method to advise the City of Greater Bendigo community and our other stakeholders of Council’s operations and performance during the financial year. GREATER BENDIGO PROFILE The City of Greater Bendigo is located It includes productive agricultural The local population is continuing to in the centre of Victoria, covering areas and many small towns and grow and is becoming increasingly almost 3,000 square kilometres. villages such as Heathcote, Axedale, culturally, religiously and ethnically Greater Bendigo is a vibrant, creative Huntly, Marong, Elmore, Goornong, diverse. Council is committed to and culturally enriched major Kamarooka, Lockwood, Neilborough, Greater Bendigo being a community regional centre for northern Victoria Sebastian, Woodvale, Raywood, that understands and respects and southern NSW, and has the third Mia Mia and Redesdale, which are cultural and religious differences, largest urban area in Victoria. renowned for their strong sense supports multiculturalism and of community and lifestyle. actively promotes cultural inclusion. 4 INTRODUCTION SNAPSHOT OF COUNCIL The City of Greater Bendigo (the City) has nine councillors across three wards. Lockwood Ward Whipstick Ward Localities include: Big Hill, Golden Localities include: Ascot, Avonmore, Gully, Golden Square, Harcourt Bagshot, Bagshot North, Barnadown, North, Kangaroo Flat, Leichardt, Bendigo, California Gully, Drummartin, Lockwood, Lockwood South, Maiden Eaglehawk, Eaglehawk North, East Gully, Mandurang, Mandurang South, Bendigo, Elmore, Epsom, Fosterville, Marong, Myers Flat, Quarry Hill, Goornong, Hunter, Huntly, Huntly Ravenswood, Sailors Gully, Sedgwick, North, Ironbark, Jackass Flat, Shelbourne, Spring Gully, West Kamarooka, Long Gully, Neilborough, Bendigo, Wilsons Hill. North Bendigo, Raywood, Sebastian, Wellsford, Whipstick, White Hills, Woodvale. Eppalock Ward Elmore Localities include: Argyle, Axe Creek, Axedale, Bendigo, Costerfield, Derrinal, WHIPSTICK WARD East Bendigo, Emu Creek, Eppalock, Raywood Flora Hill, Heathcote, Junortoun, Neilborough Kennington, Kimbolton, Knowsley, Sebastian Ladys Pass, Longlea, Lyal, Mia Mia, Goornong Mount Camel, Myrtle Creek, Redcastle, Redesdale, Strathdale, Strathfieldsaye, Huntly Tooleen. Eaglehawk Bendigo Myers Flat Epsom Marong Maiden Gully Golden Square Flora Hill Axedale Strathfieldsaye LOCKWOOD WARD Kangaroo Mandurang Lockwood Flat EPPALOCK WARD Costerfield Ravenswood Heathcote Mia Mia Redesdale Annual Report 2018/2019 5 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE • Greater Bendigo has an estimated • 27% of households rent their home • 2% of people take public transport population of 116,045 people to work • 85% of residents live in urban • More than 23.9% of the population Bendigo • 23.1% of residents volunteer are aged 60 years and over • 16% of people have a Bachelor • 21% of households are considered • The median age is 39 degree or higher to be low income • 8% of the population were • 41.9% of people have no formal • 1.7% of the population are born overseas, compared to the qualifications Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Victorian average of 28% • 26% of people live on their own • The Greater Bendigo SEIFA score of * Data sourced from profile.id, which compiles 981 (index of inequalities) is lower • 41% of the labour force work and presents data from the Australian Bureau of than the Victorian average of 1,010 part time Statistics (2016 Census) 6 THE YEAR IN REVIEW THE YEAR IN REVIEW 14,755 45,000 1,189 centre spring bulbs planted, inspections of consultations including tulips food premises provided by undertaken Maternal and by the City’s Child Environmental Health Centres Health Officers 9,329 97,709 vaccines administered calls taken by the at public, school and City’s customer staff sessions support staff 32,000 trees, shrubs and grasses planted 100,246 35,199 people visited people attended 809,592 the Bendigo a community arts items borrowed from Visitor program or event Bendigo, Kangaroo Flat, Information Heathcote and Outreach Centre Library services 1,118 52.3km planning of roads resealed permits with a value 1.15M of $233M sheep and lambs were issued sold at the Bendigo Livestock Exchange Annual Report 2018/2019 7 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR July August • The City introduces a new • Councillors host a roundtable event • New lighting at Marist College oval streamlined permit application in Kangaroo Flat to gather feedback is used to host a night football for businesses from the community match for the first time • The City takes part in the CityStudio • Council releases its draft Arts and • A plaque recognising former program, which sees 20 university Creative Industries Strategy for councillor, the late Daryl McClure students work with City staff to come public comment OAM is unveiled in Rosalind Park up with new ideas for the Bendigo • The new Strathfieldsaye Early Years Creek for Council to consider Hub is officially opened • A new path through Greater Bendigo National Park is completed 8 THE YEAR IN REVIEW September • The new Eaglehawk Regional Play Space is officially opened • The City’s Capital Venues and Events unit win the Drover Award for Performing Arts Centre of the Year • The City begins developing a new Community Volunteering Strategy • The popular Art in the Conservatory program returns to the Rosalind Park Conservatory during the September school holidays, keeping children entertained with a Go Islands! theme • Bendigo hosts White Night for the first time, with an estimated 60,000 people in attendance Annual Report 2018/2019 9 October • Rosalind Park wins a prestigious Green Flag award making it one of the best green spaces in Australia • Gurri Wanyarra Wellbeing Centre officially opens • Concept plans for upgrades to the Raywood Recreation Reserve are released for public comment • The City commences community engagement as part of the Planning Scheme review 10 THE YEAR IN REVIEW November • The Bendigo Soldiers Memorial Institute and Military Museum officially opens following an extensive upgrade and expansion • New artwork is unveiled in Pennyweight Walk Open Air Gallery • The Bendigo Visitor Centre wins gold in the Visitor Information Services category at the RACV Victorian Tourism Awards in recognition of its consistent high quality customer service • The City commences a $1.8M road work project in Maiden Gully to reconstruct a section of Maiden Gully Road, build a new roundabout and extend shared off-road pathways • Work begins on upgrades to a roundabout in East Bendigo to allow b-double trucks to access the East Bendigo industrial estate December • The City hosts a public forum on the need to provide more industrial land to support jobs and economic growth • Work starts on a new pop up park in Hargreaves Mall, featuring artificial turf, flower beds and trees • Conservation work starts on the Bendigo Town Hall including roof, window and door repairs, and painting • Qantas announces it will commence commercial flights from Bendigo to Sydney • Bendigo Art Gallery hosts the exhibition Frida Kahlo, her photos in an Australian exclusive Annual Report 2018/2019 11 Above: Frida Kahlo, by Guillermo Kahlo, 1932 © Frida Kahlo Museum. January • The City announces it will take over the delivery of pound and animal shelter services from July 2019 • Kevin Cail and Sam Kane are announced as the 2019 Citizen and Young Citizen of the Year • A project to reimagine the Bendigo Creek is announced in collaboration with Victorian Government departments and agencies and the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation February • Bendigo hosts a new tourism conference to explore new and emerging trends in tourism for local businesses • The City hosts a community event marking the 10th anniversary of the 2009 Victorian