budget ratified for 2011/12

report from the roundtable - 28 jun

This week's council meeting was an important one as it considered our annual budget and council plan for the 2011/12 year.

The budget has been before council a number of times and been through a rigorous review process. It's a budget that looks to the future and delivers on important infrastructure as well as human services.

It addresses our asset renewal challenges into the future and has been developed in an environment of declining financial grants, rising costs and continuing cost shifting from state government to local government.

Specific capital works projects for the Lyster ward in the upcoming year include:
$12,500 for drainage improvements - Gallagher Street, Belgrave
$55,000 for landslip and drainage works - Fairy Dell Road, Tecoma
$40,170 for drainage improvements - Licence Road, Belgrave South
$51,000 for footpath construction - Broadway, Belgrave
$56,300 for footpath construction - Kallista Emerald Road, The Patch
$150,000 for footpath construction - The Patch Road, The Patch
$25,000 for traffic management - Berwick Road, Narre Warren East
$35,000 for wicket relocation - Narre Warren East
$70,000 for trail construction - Birdsland, Belgrave to Lysterfield
$463,500 for renovation works - Belgrave Pool
$3,227,500 for construction and refurbishment - Monbulk Pool