THINKING BIGANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 This year’s Annual Report centres on the theme THINKING BIG. It reflects a year spent planning how, so we can make our City even greater in the future. We are reviewing our Local Environment Plan and have developed our 10 year draft Local Strategic Planning Statement. This plan will be guiding our City’s development for the next 20 years. We completed reviews of our Integrated Open Space and Children’s Play Implementation Plans and finalised master plans for ELS Hall Park, Gannan Park, Meadowbank Park and Blenheim Park. Our first Resilience Plan is also under development. Our Social Plan and Creativity Strategy were developed through extensive research and consultation with community members and stakeholders and we started our biggest infrastructure project for our community, Ryde Central, and our plans are progressing from concept to design stages. 1 ABOUT THIS REPORT ABOUT THIS REPORT Social Plan and Creativity Strategy Workshop The report focuses on the financial and operational When writing this report, we took a quadruple bottom line performance of the City of Ryde in 2018/19, documenting our approach to social, economic, environmental and governance performance against the 2018/19 budget, and our progress outcomes impacting our community. It contains Standard against our Four-Year Delivery Plan 2018 – 2022. It is intended Disclosures from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to provide important information to a broad range of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, with the GRI index on page stakeholders including City of Ryde residents and ratepayers, 241 listing the location of relevant indicators within the Annual local businesses, non-government organisations, our partners Report. We have also discussed the sustainability initiatives we and other government departments and agencies. It also have undertaken both in our community and in our organisation provides our staff with information on how well we have in our Natural and Sustainable City and Vibrant and Liveable performed over the year, how their efforts have contributed to City outcomes achieving our vision and what to expect in the coming year. Acknowledgement This report also includes a snapshot of our performance and an overview of our outlook for the future, including our plans to The City of Ryde acknowledges the Wallumedegal clan of the ensure the sustainability of our organisation, our City and the Dharug people as the traditional custodians of this land. community we serve. Our Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPA) Annual Report and report on progress against our Disability Inclusion Action Plan are also included in the Statutory Information section of this report. 2 CITY OF RYDE ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 Welcome to the City of Ryde Annual Report CONTENTS for 2018/19 THE OUR YEAR IN CIVIC CITY REVIEW LEADERSHIP Our City 4 From the Mayor 7 Our Councillors 24 General Manager’s Review 9 Governing our City 30 Our Vision, Mission and Values 11 Committee Set-up 32 Our Stakeholders 12 Leading our Organisation 34 Our Performance Snapshot 14 Integrated Planning and Managing the Money 16 Reporting Framework 36 Event Highlights 20 Ryde Central 38 Awards and Recognition 22 OUTCOMES FINANCIALS STATUTORY 2018/19 INFORMATION Our performance against the Chief Financial Officer’s Report 139 Local Government Reporting 223 Four-year Delivery Plan 2018-2022 40 General Purpose Financial Global Reporting Initiative index 241 Council in the Spotlight 40 Statements 141 Glossary 246 Sustainability Statement 41 Special Purpose Financial Index 248 Our Vibrant and Liveable City 44 Statements 204 Our Active and Healthy City 56 Special Schedules 213 Our Smart and Innovative City 72 Our Natural and Sustainable City 80 Our Connected and Accessible City 98 Our Diverse and Inclusive City 108 Our Open and Progressive City 120 Lunar New Year 3 OUR CITY Hornsby Shire Council 40 km2 OUR total City Ku-Ring-Gai land area Council Marsfield CITY Macquarie Park Eastwood North Ryde WEST WARD Denistone East Chatswood West Denistone West Denistone 4 town West Ryde centres EAST WARD CENTRAL WARD Ryde Parramatta Meadowbank Willoughby City City Melrose Park East Ryde 29 neighbourhood Lance Cove River centres Council 205 ha Gladesville of bushland Macquarie Putney University (over 40,000 Tennyson Point Hunters Hill students) Municipality 217 City-managed parks 5 24 56 hospitals primary schools Ryde and sportsfields Meadowbank 5 Colleges of TAFE high schools (13,000 students) (over 16,200 students) Our story The traditional owners of the area were Following European settlement, the first The early settlers had called the area by the Wallumedegal clan of the Darug land grants in the area were in January various names including Eastern Farms or Kissing Point, but by 1841 a new name, Nation, whose name derived from 1792, in the modern day area of Melrose Park. However, for most of the 19th Ryde, was emerging for the district, wallumai, the snapper fish, combined derived from the seaside town of Ryde century, the area comprising what is now with matta, a word often used to on the Isle of Wight. the City of Ryde was dominated by describe a water place. They lived for substantial estates with pockets of On 12 November 1870, the Municipal generations as fisher-hunter-gatherers in residential and commercial development district of Ryde was officially proclaimed a rich environment of river flats, with the first elections taking place in at Ryde and Gladesville. Arching across 1871. In 1894 the residents of the mangrove swamps and creeks. Evidence the northern part was the Field of Mars north-west third seceded and created of their presence can be found in rock Common, a large area of public land set their own municipality, the Municipality carvings and middens along our rivers. aside in 1804 for use by local inhabitants. of Marsfield, later re-named the 4 CITY OF RYDE ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 POPULATION CULTURALLY DIVERSE Hornsby Shire 127,466 Council estimated residents 101 countries of origin Ku-Ring-Gai Council Marsfield Macquarie Park Children Young people Older people More than 72 47% Eastwood 18,964 15,737 16,593 languages of residents 61,000 (16%) (14%) (14%) born overseas (48%) North Ryde of our residents speak HOUSEHOLDS WEST WARD a language other than English at home Denistone East POWERHOUSE ECONOMY Chatswood West Denistone West Denistone 43,020 West Ryde households EAST WARD $17 billion CENTRAL WARD Ryde Gross Regional Product Parramatta Meadowbank Willoughby City City Melrose Park East Ryde Families Couples without children Single person Lance21,542 Cove River 10,156 9,576 Council(50%) (24%) (22%) 12,867 103,854 local businesses local jobs Gladesville HOUSING CHOICE A PROSPEROUS AREA Putney Tennyson Point Hunters Hill Municipality 47,621 rateable properties $151,220 average household income Separate house Medium density High density 21,310 9,175 15,244 49.2% 61.7% 5,342 of all residents of resident workers residents require Data sources: work in paid have a teriary assistance with ABS ERP 2018, NIEIR 2018, ABS 2018, employment qualification activities due to ABS Census of Population and Housing 2016 disability Municipality of Eastwood. Its population West Ryde and Eastwood. At the same subsequent rezoning of surrounding was too small to be viable long term time, the subdivision of the Common land for residential and industrial use and on 1 January 1949, as part of during the 1880s, generally into resulted in the development of a Sydney-wide municipal amalgamations, acreages, resulted in that land being North Ryde industrial area, which would the municipalities of Ryde and Eastwood used as poultry farms, market gardens become the economic powerhouse we merged. Ryde gained city status in 1992. and orchards, with many parts of the now call Macquarie Park. local government area retaining an Two significant events at the end of The City of Ryde continues to be agricultural aspect until well after the the 19th century directed subsequent attractive to a highly diverse population, Second World War. development of the area. The from newly arrived immigrants to main northern railway line (the During the 20th century, industry, Australia – drawn by the lifestyle, Homebush-Waratah railway) was including shipbuilding, flourished along education and employment opened in 1886, resulting in subdivision the banks of the Parramatta River. The opportunities available – and to families of land along its route and the eventual decision in March 1963 to build a who have lived in the area for creation of suburbs at Meadowbank, university at North Ryde and the generations. 5 THE YEAR IN REVIEW THE YEAR IN REVIEW Cycle path at Morrison Bay 6 Citizen of the Year Awards CITY OF RYDE ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 FROM THE MAYOR It is with great pleasure that I present the - Maintaining our City’s character. - Bringing our community together. City of Ryde’s 2018/19 Annual Report. We continued to advocate against We were lucky to stage some incredible planning policies putting undue events in 2018/19. This included the This report provides an extensive pressure on our existing infrastructure biggest Lunar New Year celebration overview of the big agenda that Council and local amenity. This includes yet, which paid homage to our is embarking on to deliver vital obtaining a deferral on the multiculturalism as well as the Granny programs, services and initiatives for the implementation of the State Smith Festival, which celebrated our benefit of the entire City of Ryde Government’s Medium Density Housing unique history. community. Code. We also joined thousands of Despite all that Council has achieved, we As you will read, the Council has local residents to successfully advocate for a review of plans to demolish the still have so much to do as part of our achieved a great deal. Some of the commitment to work for all residents.