Official Information Request - Lakefront

Sent: Monday, 23 August 2021 4:24 pm
Subject: LGOIMA request – lakefront maintenance

I acknowledge your Official Information request of 6 August 2021 regarding the lakefront, and respond below as per your questions:

What is the yearly rental for the lake bed where the new boardwalk is located please?
$10,000 per year for 50 years, CPI adjusted every 3 years

What is the daily maintenance and annual budget for the redeveloped lakefront.
Since the lakefront project began the daily maintenance has reduced significantly as the site has been taken over by construction. As part of the construction work, the contractors have their own 12 month post-construction maintenance period to manage plantings etc to confirm that new areas are fully established and any defects are corrected. This defect and construction maintenance period for the recently completed Stage 1 (lakefront boardwalk area) is now in place so there are no charges for maintenance currently being incurred by Council.
The maintenance budget will be established from the measured amount of grass, concrete, plants, hardwood etc once the project is finished and the assessment of “as-builts” has been completed. The materials will be more durable so we expect that there will be less repairs required, and we will be aiming for a high standard so there will be the standard daily checks carried out as they were in the past. Overall we expect that the daily maintenance requirements for the new lakefront will be similar to what it was for the pre-construction lakefront area.
Pre-construction the amount budgeted for “Parks” related lakefront maintenance was $210k. This was for mowing, gardens and work on park structures like seats, BBQ’s, boatramp and the toilet cleaning. This did not include litter and cobble cleaning, or lake weed removal. These formed part of the “City Clean” contract with Infracore which included all of the CBD and the lakefront.

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