Supporting Document - Attachment 2 - Summary Dashboards - IPART

ATTACHMENT 2
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY - SERVICE OVERVIEW
Service Aims
To restore, maintain and protect a healthy, resilient natural environment.
To build community capacity to live sustainably within a World Heritage
Area.
To provide high quality natural assets which support the City’s biodiversity,
tourism economy, community lifestyle, health and wellbeing.
To minimise life cycle costs for built assets used to deliver the Environmental
Sustainability Service.
COUNCIL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Coordinate and support volunteer community conservation programs such
as Bush Care, Land Care and Stream Watch
Monitor Environmental Water Quality – ecological and recreational
Protect and conserve Endangered Ecological Communities and threatened
species habitat
Raise awareness through advocacy and environmental education
Regenerate Council owned bushland
Assets Supporting Service
Approximately 11,000ha of Council Managed bushland
363km of creek lines
500ha of Endangered Ecological Communities
86 Threatened species
Large numbers of cultural sites and their surrounding
landscapes
3.4% of Total Asset Value
Restore degraded lands
Restore Riparian Areas
$40,000,000
Total Asset Value
Community Satisfaction Survey
1. Protection of Natural Bush land
2012-13 Service Budget
% of Total Council Expenditure
2. Clean creeks and water ways.
Environmental Sustainability
5%
$4,500,000
3. Bush regeneration.
$4,000,000
$3,500,000
$3,000,000
4. Weed control.
$2,500,000
$2,000,000
$1,500,000
$1,000,000
$500,000
SOURCE: 2012 Community Survey Results
$0
Total Expenses Total Income Capital Works Net Service
Program Support Costs
Environmental Sustainability $4,356,045 $2,427,480 $0 $539,387
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