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Victorian Budget 2010-11 Public Sector Asset Investment Program Budget Information Paper No 2010-11 Public Sector Asset Investment Program Budget Information Paper No. 1 www.budget.vic.gov.au Budget Information Paper No. 1 Budget Information Paper Public Sector Asset Investment Program -11 2010 Victorian Budget 2010-11 Public Sector Asset Investment Program Budget Information Paper No. 1 Presented by John Lenders MP Treasurer of the State of Victoria The Secretary Department of Treasury and Finance 1 Treasury Place Melbourne Victoria 3002 Australia Telephone: +61 3 9651 5111 Facsimile: +61 3 9651 5298 Website: www.budget.vic.gov.au Authorised by the Victorian Government 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne, 3002. Printed by Stream Solutions, Level 3, 157 Spring Street, Melbourne, 3000. This publication makes reference to the 2010-11 Budget Paper set which includes: Budget Paper No. 1 – Treasurer’s Speech Budget Paper No. 2 – Strategy and Outlook Budget Paper No. 3 – Service Delivery Budget Paper No. 4 – Statement of Finances (incorporating Quarterly Financial Report No. 3) Victorian Budget Overview © Copyright State of Victoria 2010 This book is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. ISSN 1440-6969 Published May 2010. Printed on recycled paper. Rectangular stadium photo: Peter Glenane Royal Women’s Hospital photo: John Gollings Photography Public Sector Asset Investment Program 2010–11 Presented by John Lenders MP Treasurer of the State of Victoria for the information of Honourable Members Budget Information Paper No. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1 Coverage.................................................................................................................................. 1 Assets......................................................................................................................................... 1 Document structure................................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 1 – Public sector asset investment program 2010-11 .................................. 3 Key infrastructure projects.......................................................................................................... 4 Project descriptions ................................................................................................................... 8 Asset management and delivery............................................................................................ 15 General government sector asset investment ........................................................................ 18 Public non-financial corporations asset investment ................................................................ 21 Chapter 2 – General government asset investment program 2010-11 ................... 25 Department of Education and Early Childhood Development ............................................... 25 Department of Health ............................................................................................................. 44 Department of Human Services .............................................................................................. 50 Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development............................................ 51 Department of Justice............................................................................................................. 55 Department of Planning and Community Development........................................................ 60 Department of Premier and Cabinet ...................................................................................... 63 Department of Primary Industries............................................................................................. 64 Department of Sustainability and Environment........................................................................ 66 Department of Transport.......................................................................................................... 69 Department of Treasury and Finance...................................................................................... 75 Parliament ............................................................................................................................... 76 Country Fire Authority ............................................................................................................... 77 Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board................................................................... 78 Chapter 3 – Public non-financial corporations asset investment program 2010-11 ................................................................................................................... 81 Barwon Region Water Corporation .......................................................................................... 81 Central Gippsland Region Water Corporation......................................................................... 88 Central Highlands Region Water Corporation.......................................................................... 95 City West Water Limited ........................................................................................................... 98 Coliban Region Water Corporation ....................................................................................... 100 East Gippsland Region Water Corporation............................................................................ 104 Gippsland and Southern Rural Water Corporation ................................................................ 106 Goulburn-Murray Rural Water Corporation............................................................................. 107 Goulburn Valley Region Water Corporation........................................................................... 110 Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water Corporation.................................................................. 114 Lower Murray Urban and Rural Water Corporation ................................................................ 117 Melbourne Water Corporation............................................................................................... 120 North East Region Water Corporation.................................................................................... 122 i Table of contents (continued) Office of Housing ...................................................................................................................125 Port of Melbourne Corporation...............................................................................................127 South East Water Limited ........................................................................................................129 South Gippsland Region Water Corporation ..........................................................................132 Transport Ticketing Authority....................................................................................................134 V/Line Passenger Corporation ................................................................................................135 Victorian Rail Track (VicTrack)..................................................................................................136 Victorian Urban Development Authority (VicUrban) ................................................................139 Wannon Region Water Corporation .......................................................................................140 Western Region Water Corporation ........................................................................................142 Westernport Region Water Corporation..................................................................................145 Yarra Valley Water Limited......................................................................................................146 Other public non financial corporations ................................................................................149 Appendix A – Location index ................................................................................. 151 Style Conventions .................................................................................................. 157 ii INTRODUCTION COVERAGE The 2010-11 Public Sector Asset Investment Program – Budget Information Paper No. 1 (BIP1) is compiled in association with the annual budget papers to inform Parliament and the community about Victoria’s asset investment program. The asset investment projects published in this paper support the outputs detailed in the 2010-11 Budget Paper No. 3, Service Delivery. BIP1 presents detailed listings of major public sector investments: • for the general government sector; • for the public non-financial corporations (PNFC) sector; and • those projects being delivered under Partnerships Victoria. For the general government sector, BIP1 captures projects with a total estimated investment (TEI) equal to or in excess of $250 000. However for the PNFC sector, projects listed have a TEI equal to or in excess of $1 million and all remaining projects are captured in the ‘Other’ category. BIP1 does not include: • general government sector projects with a planned capital expenditure in 2010-11 of less than $75 000 and projects recorded specifically as capital grants paid to other sectors; and • PNFC projects that have planned capital expenditure in 2010-11 of less than $150 000 which, for the purposes of this publication,
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