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Contents<br />

OUR ORGANISATION<br />

Financial overview<br />

Revenue Generation and Budgetary Objectives<br />

The <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong> <strong>Gardens</strong> Board Victoria’s income is primarily annual recurrent funding<br />

from the Victorian Government, supplemented by income generated through grants,<br />

donations, fund-generating programs, business operations and investment. The annual<br />

recurrent budget is allocated to salaries, operating costs and minor capital works.<br />

The main budgetary objectives of the organisation are to:<br />

– provide for the operational growth of RBG Cranbourne associated with the<br />

development of the Australian Garden<br />

– improve the curation of the State <strong>Botanic</strong>al Collection<br />

– identify and implement new business opportunities building on the <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong><br />

<strong>Gardens</strong>’ brand, while fostering the expansion of current revenue sources, and<br />

– achieve a consistent growth in corporate, community and philanthropic contributions<br />

of at least 10 per cent per annum.<br />

Victorian Government Income<br />

During <strong>2010</strong>–11, annual funding provided by the Department of Sustainability and<br />

Environment (DSE) enabled the repair or replacement of the most urgent of those<br />

assets requiring attention, rectification of building defects, path, kerb and water main<br />

replacements, installation of water tanks for office use and repair of the Herbarium lift.<br />

Work was also undertaken on replacement of part of the RBG Melbourne perimeter<br />

fence, which was required as a result of the City of Melbourne’s activities relating to<br />

the upgrade of The Tan Track.<br />

In relation to major capital works, construction of the Working Wetlands Part A project<br />

in RBG Melbourne, which aims to revitalise the RBG Melbourne lake system, is near<br />

completion and significant progress was made on the landscape construction works<br />

for the Australian Garden Stage 2 project, which are expected to be completed by<br />

mid-2012.<br />

Table 3: Financial results for <strong>2010</strong>–11<br />

<strong>2010</strong>–11<br />

$<br />

Government funding<br />

State Government<br />

– Parks and Reserve Trust Account grants 11,798,744<br />

– Other grants 676,537<br />

Commonwealth Government 367,132<br />

Sponsorship 4,004,471<br />

General Revenue 6,239,663<br />

Total Expenses (19,552,693)<br />

Operating Surplus/(Deficit) 3,533,854<br />

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