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Programme
Biodiversity
Sub <strong>to</strong>tal
($,000)
Biodiversity
Sub <strong>to</strong>tal
($,000)
Projects
Financial year ending:
2005/ 2006/ 2007/
06 07 08
2008/
09
2009/
10
2010/
11
2111/
12
TOTAL
Regeneration and revegetation
Sites:
S<strong>held</strong>on Forest 30 20 15 10 10 10 10 105
Browns Field and surrounds 40 30 15 10 10 10 10 125
* Browns Forest (BGH) 20 20 10 10 10 10 10 90
* St Ives Showground (Duffy's Forest) 30 20 15 10 10 10 10 105
Aluba Oval and surrounds 20 15 10 45
The Glade 15 5 5 5 5 5 5 45
* Maddison (BGH) 30 20 15 10 10 10 10 105
Acron Oval 20 20 5 5 5 5 5 65
* Turiban Reserve (BGH) 25 20 15 5 5 5 5 80
230 170 105 65 65 65 65 765
Urban biodiversity
Wildlife promotion and management 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 70
Feral animal / noxious weed control 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 105
25 25 25 25 25 25 25 175
* Note: Blue Gum High Forest (BGH) and Duffy’s Forest are recognised as threatened vegetation communities under the
NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1997.
Community Partnerships
Building stronger links with our community is an important element <strong>to</strong> this programme. This
will <strong>be</strong> achieved through:
1. increasing support for the existing volunteer based environmental programmes; and
2. establishing a community Environmental Grants Programme.
Volunteer programmes
A recent assessment <strong>of</strong> Ku-ring-gai’s Bushcare programme in 2003 demonstrated that for every
dollar invested by Council in Bushcare, the community contributes another three dollars via inkind
labour and support. Current funding <strong>to</strong> Bushcare is around $160,000 per annum. The
addition <strong>of</strong> $60,000 will in turn <strong>be</strong>nefit Council a further $660,000 each year.
Council has recently introduced the Tree Nurturers Programme, Backyard Buddies and
Community Firewise programmes. These draw a greater num<strong>be</strong>r <strong>of</strong> our community <strong>to</strong> assist in
the management <strong>of</strong> Council/Community assets. In many cases, these programmes are still
running as ‘pilots’ and require additional resources <strong>to</strong> grow across the Ku-ring-gai area. The
projects and related funding are shown in Table 7.
Table 7 The Community volunteer programme proposed activities and projects
Special rate variation identified projects ($,000)
Programme
Community
partnerships
2005/
06
2006/
07
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2007
/ 08
Financial year ending:
2008 2009/ 2010/
/ 09 10 11
2111/
12
TOTAL
Projects
Community volunteer programmes
Bushcare site improvements 45 58 50 50 50 36 21 310
Bushcare 15 8 8 8 8 8 8 65
Urban Landcare 10 8 8 8 8 8 8 58
Community Firewise 10 8 8 8 8 8 8 58