What does this involve?
To guide a future decision, we've been looking into the current state of the District’s water services, and our ability to deliver into the future based on Government’s new water standards, whilst meeting the stringent new financial sufficiency requirements. Early findings suggest it will be challenging to maintain the status quo and that changes are necessary to ensure the long-term sustainability of water operations, particularly considering population growth and the increasing demands on infrastructure.
Further analysis is required to consider all options and determine which one we think will best serve our community and meet legislative requirements into the future. Council will continue modelling different scenarios to assess financial and operational impacts.
We pride ourselves on the mahi we’ve done investing in water infrastructure and in turn providing a good service to our community. But it's unlikely we will be able to retain the waters services functions within our current structure because we won’t meet the sustainable financial thresholds and debt caps as set out by the Government.
This means that our choice of future delivery structure to achieve financial sustainability could be limited and a new standalone entity would need to be established either by ourselves or in partnership with other councils.
