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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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