Adopted by Council on 8 November 2016 ISSN Number: 2207-0362 (Online) City of Mitcham Record Number: 16.86575 © City of Mitcham Civic Centre 131 Belair Road TORRENS PARK SA 5062 Postal address: PO Box 21 Mitcham Shopping Centre Torrens Park SA 5062 Telephone: 08 8372 8888 Facsimile: 08 8372 8101 Internet: www.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au Email: [email protected] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO COUNTRY We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians and caretakers of the land that includes much of this City, known as Tarndanyannga country which means ‘the place of the red kangaroo dreaming’. The Kaurna people’s rich cultural heritage and spiritual beliefs still connect their people with this land and we welcome a new relationship with the living members of their community today. CONTENTS Message from the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer 3 Our Elected Members 4 City Profile 6 Our Vision 8 Performance against Council’s Strategic Goals and Objectives 9 Accessible City Goal 10 Liveable City Goal 14 Inclusive and Capable Community Goal 18 Healthy Environment Goal 22 Enterprising City Goal 26 Excellence in Government Goal 30 Our Leadership and People 34 Our Governance 36 Representation 36 Decision Making Structure at the City of Mitcham 37 Council and Council Meetings 38 Committees of Council 39 Council Subsidiaries 41 Delegations to Chief Executive Officer 41 Council Briefings 41 Members’ Allowances 43 Elected Member Training and Development 45 Freedom of Information 45 Confidential Provisions 46 Section 270 Internal Reviews of Decisions 48 National Competition Policy 49 Community Land and Council Facilities 49 Documents Required to be Maintained by Council 50 Annual Financial Statements 51 Appendices 78 Centennial Park Cemetery 2015/16 Annual Report 79 East Waste 2015/16 Annual Report 143 CITY OF MITCHAM ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 CITY OF MITCHAM ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER WELCOME TO THE CITY OF MITCHAM ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16. We have continued to strengthen our financial position to ensure Council can continue to maintain and improve the City and services to residents. An GLENN SPEAR MATT PEARS underlying operational surplus of MAYOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER $0.62 million was achieved in 2015/16. Council is focussed on listening to our customers and delivering services that Carols by the Creek at the Soldiers which will now be passed to residents meet the needs of residents. As part of Memorial Gardens, Hawthorn, continued through the reduced cost of additional this in 2015/16 we successfully delivered to be one of the top Christmas Carol recycling and green organics bins in a capital renewal program of $15.11 events in Adelaide with in excess 2016/17. Council also received a Keep million with the major expenditure of 2,500 people in attendance in Australia Beautiful grant to enable the being on roads, footpaths and December 2015. installation of recycling bins in Apex Park, stormwater infrastructure throughout Hawthorndene and AA Bailey Reserve, the City. An additional $3.4 million was Youth Week events attracted Clarence Gardens. spent on new infrastructure including approximately 400 young participants construction of 11 new footpaths and 250 spectators to six different events We have continued to work on improving including Beaconsfield Road, Eden with Youth Fest at Karinya Reserve the appearance of our streetscapes and Hills; Tallerook Road, Hawthorndene; attracting over 300 young people. reserves without increasing costs. We Grandview Drive, Panorama; and have created work flexible teams and Our libraries continued to be some of Edgecumbe Parade, Blackwood. increased our efficiency by focussing the busiest places in the City of Mitcham on planned rather than reactive During the financial year Council, with an average of 6,000 people visiting maintenance. in partnership with the four other them each week. A range of events catchment Councils, finalised a were delivered by the library team, Reducing the risk of bushfire in our hills Stormwater Masterplan for Brownhill attended by over 22,000 members of suburbs is always a priority with Council and Keswick Creeks. This has been a long our community. The Mitcham Library spending over $0.75 million on bushfire and difficult project involving significant Service was one of the first in the State prevention strategies including reducing community discussion. Thank you to the to achieve eSmart accreditation - an the fire load on Council verges, between large number of residents who have initiative of the Alannah and Madeline houses and woodland reserves and given their time to achieve a workable Foundation, aimed at improving cyber providing fire breaks while Council’s and effective plan. Works have already safety, increasing digital literacy and Fire Prevention Officer has worked with begun, the focus now turns to funding reducing cyber bullying across Australia. the community to ensure reduction and implementing the entire masterplan. of fuel load on private land and to While Council is far more than roads, raise awareness and provide bushfire Council was also very successful in rates and rubbish Council’s expenditure prevention information to residents working with the City of Marion to lobby on waste management was considerable living in bushfire prone areas. the State and Federal Governments to at $5.28 million. Our Waste Team improve the plan for the South Road continued to provide great service to Thank you to our 355 volunteers Darlington upgrade. This lobbying the community by not only collecting who contributed to the community resulted in improvements to access for approximately 24,000 bins a week but including caring for community gardens, local residents and a rail connection building relationships with many of the researching local history, driving a across South Road. residents, moving and returning bins for community bus, serving lunch to aged those who cannot do so themselves and residents and more. Your commitment A highly successful multicultural food and keeping an eye open for and reporting to your fellow residents, neighbours music community event incorporating anything unusual in the area. A new and the community of Mitcham is a citizenship ceremony was trialled in recycling contract resulting in savings greatly valued. March with over 600 people attending. CITY OF MITCHAM ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 PAGE 3 OUR ELECTED MEMBERS MAYOR GLENN SPEAR MAYOR Mayor Glenn Spear Mobile: 0438 221 762 Email: [email protected] DAVID MUNRO YVONNE TODD ADRIANA CHRISTOPOULOS ANDREW TILLEY BABBAGE WARD COUNCILLORS BOORMAN WARD COUNCILLORS David Munro Adriana Christopoulos Mobile: 0403 161 462 Telephone: 8372 8888 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Yvonne Todd Andrew Tilley Mobile: 0418 891 097 Mobile: 0411 158 882 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 8272 9405 Email: [email protected] NICK GREER KAREN HOCKLEY LINDY TAEUBER STEPHEN FISHER ADRIAN ROSEVEAR CRAIGBURN WARD COUNCILLORS GAULT WARD COUNCILLORS Nick Greer Stephen Fisher Telephone: 8372 8888 Mobile: 0407 973 321 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Karen Hockley Adrian Rosevear Mobile: 0423 919 080 Mobile: 0417 741 650 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Lindy Taeuber Mobile: 0420 372 566 Email: [email protected] PAGE 4 CITY OF MITCHAM ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 Cumberland Hawthorn Urrbrae Park Kingswood Clarence Gardens Westbourne Netherby Park Leawood Gardens GAULT Springfield OVERTON Lower Torrens Colonel Mitcham Park Light BOORMAN Daw Gardens Melrose Park Park Clapham Brownhill Mitcham Creek Pasadena Panorama Belair Lynton Crafers BABBAGE West St Marys THE PARK Glenalta Eden Hills Bedford Park CRAIGBURN Hawthorndene Bellevue Blackwood Upper Heights Sturt Craigburn Farm Coromandel Valley NICHOLAS ECONOMOS JOHN SANDERSON MARK WARD TIM HEIN OVERTON WARD COUNCILLORS THE PARK WARD COUNCILLORS Nicholas Economos Mark Ward Mobile: 0411 659 669 Cr Mark Ward resigned from Council on 24 May 2016. Email: [email protected] Tim Hein John Sanderson Mobile: 0403 080 080 Mobile: 0402 517 945 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 8277 1884 Email: [email protected] CITY OF MITCHAM ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 PAGE 5 CITY PROFILE MITCHAM IS A THRIVING CITY, Proclaimed in May 1853 under the District example of 1920s town planning VALUED FOR ITS PROXIMITY Councils Act 1852, the City of Mitcham and historic Belair, a unique suburb is one of the oldest councils in South surrounded on three sides by parks TO THE CITY OF ADELAIDE, Australia taking its name from Mitcham including South Australia’s oldest park THE HILLS AND THE SEA. Village which was settled in 1840 on the Belair National Park. We also have OUR CITY IS KNOWN FOR banks of Brown Hill Creek. Springfield, one of Adelaide’s most prestigious suburbs as well as a new ITS AVENUES OF STREET Today there are over 66,000 people housing development at Craigburn Farm. TREES, ITS BEAUTIFUL PARKS, living in Mitcham and approximately RESERVES AND GARDENS, 5,000 registered businesses operating Our City has a vibrant education sector, in our local council area generating over home to over 65 high quality educational ITS HISTORIC HOMES AND 28,000 local jobs and $3.05 billion in institutions including kindergartens, UNIQUE HISTORICAL AREAS Gross Regional Product. schools, colleges and universities such as the Waite Institute and Flinders University AND ITS MAGNIFICENT VIEWS The City of Mitcham comprises an area of with many local and international 75.7 square kilometres extends into the FROM THE HILLS OVER students living locally. THE CITY. beautiful Mitcham hills, stretching from Cross Road to the north to the Sturt River The majority of properties located in in the south and from Mount Barker Road Mitcham are residential with most in the east to South Road in the west. commercial premises located along or near Belair Road, Goodwood Road, Our suburbs include our State Heritage South Road and Main Road (Blackwood listed garden suburb, Colonel Light and Belair).