The updated 2022-2026 Four-Year Delivery Program, Draft 2024-2025 One-Year Operational Plan, Draft 2024-2025 Fees and Charges, and Draft 2024-2034 Long Term Financial Plan are on public exhibition for your comments.

The Operational Plan provides an overview of the programs, services, initiatives and projects that Council plans to deliver during the 2024-25 financial year, the third year of the 2022-2026 Four-Year Delivery Program, including the budget for this period.

The total projected expenditure of $174.1m for delivering recurrent and capital projects; of this $131m is allocated to deliver recurrent operations and $42.1m for capital expenditure.

Recurrent operations include operating and managing our sporting facilities (including Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre), parks and open space areas, community development and events, library services, buildings maintenance, forward planning and economic development activities. As well as providing essential services like waste collections, roads, regulatory services, subdivision, development and governance activities.

Capital expenditure includes, $35.9m in delivering 99 capital works projects in the next financial year, capital purchases of $3.7m and $2.5m in loan and lease payments.

Our Fees and Charges have also been updated for the 2024-25 year. The main source of Council’s income is generated from Rates (49%). Other sources of income are Waste Management and Storm Water Charges (16%), Grants and Contributions (11%) and User Charges (11%). The remaining 13% is made up of Interest on Investments and Other Revenue.

The 10-Year Long Term Financial Plan demonstrates the City of Ryde’s commitment to sustainable long term financial management and is a tool to assist decision making and forecasting Council’s future financial position. It will be continually monitored and updated annually.

To help us improve what we do, Council invited community to provide your feedback on these Plans, which can be viewed below.

Please also find the Council Rates Map attached below. This map shows the categories of rates that apply to different parts of the local government area.