Overview
The Long Term Financial Plan is part of Council's suite of Integrated Planning and Reporting documents which are shaped around our community’s vision in the recently adopted Wagga Wagga 2050 - Community Strategic Plan (CSP).
Financial sustainability is one of the key issues facing local government due to several contributing factors including growing demands for community services and facilities and their ongoing operational costs, constrained revenue growth and ageing infrastructure.
The draft Long Term Financial Plan 2025/2026 details how Council plans to meet these challenges, along with how the strategic aspirations of Council can be achieved in terms of time, money, assets and people.
Its purpose to ensure that Council is a financially viable, adequately funded, and sustainable organisation to meet community expectations of service levels.
The LTFP is formulated using a number of estimates and assumptions, to project the future revenue and expenditure required of Council to deliver those services, projects and programs expected by the community for the next 10 years.
The plan takes into consideration key elements such as rate movements, service levels to our community, major infrastructure, assets replacement and renewals as well as borrowings and cash reserves.
It is an essential element of the resourcing strategy which recognises Council’s current and future financial capacity to continue delivering services, facilities and infrastructure to the community as part of the objectives and commitments outlined in the Delivery Program and Operational Plan while undertaking the initiatives and projects that will contribute towards the strategic aspirations in the Wagga Wagga 2050 CSP.
The Resourcing Strategy focuses on long term strategies in three key areas:
- Financial Planning - addresses the financial resources that shape Council’s ability to fund its services and capital works whilst remaining financially sustainable.
As part of the LTFP review process, a financial scenario has been included to address the ongoing infrastructure maintenance and renewal shortfall as identified in Council’s Asset Management Plans across all asset categories, with part-funding to be investigated from a proposed future Special Rate Variation.
Capital works projects and programs account for over $113.2M of the planned activities for the 2025/26 financial year.
There are two different categories of capital works; One-off ($87.1M) and Recurrent ($26.1M).
One-off Capital projects refer to the new one-off projects Council will undertake during the year. Recurrent capital projects refer to the expenditure allocated on an annual basis for capital works programs.
Below is just a sample of some of the more significant capital works projects over $1M (excluding roads) identified for the 2025/26 financial year only: e used for private enterprise to profit from.
| One-Off Capital Projects | 2025/26 Budget |
| GWMC – Construction of new Waste Cell | $2,963,264 |
| GWMC – Construction of a new Monocell | $1,318,888 |
| GWMC – Plant Shed | $2,253,105 |
| Lake Albert Pipeline | $4,269,087 |
| LMC – Hardstand | $2,250,000 |
| LMC – New Circulating Road (partial) | $2,036,693 |
| Oasis – Energy Efficiency Upgrades | $3,025,000 |
| Sewer – Northern Growth Area Sewer Upgrades | $10,682,244 |
The Capital Works Program within the LTFP includes budget amounts for one-off and recurrent Roads Funding across the 10 years.
For the 2025/26 financial year, there is a total allocation of $53.9M for roads, which includes one-off projects of ($40.4M) and recurrent programs of ($13.5M).
The one-off roads projects and recurrent roads program budgets allocated for 2025/26 are shown below:
| One-Off Roads Projects | 2025/26 Budget |
| Boorooma Street Upgrade | $200,000 |
| Estella Road Upgrade | $70,000 |
| Gregadoo Road Corridor Works | $2,191,680 |
| Mates Gully Road Upgrade | $3,684,000 |
| Pine Gully Road Corridor Works | $647,585 |
| Red-Hill Road/Dalman Parkway Intersection Treatment | $137,457 |
| Regional Roads Repair Block Grant | $350,000 |
| Southern Growth Area – Plumpton Road North | $16,600,244 |
| Southern Growth Area – Plumpton Road South | $16,446,855 |
| Recurrent Roads Programs | 2025/26 Budget |
| Gravel Resheets | $2,067,981 |
| Heavy Patching Program | $1,130,289 |
| Pavement Rehabilitation Program | $6,426,104 |
| Regional Roads Supplementary Block Grant | $199,000 |
| Reseal Program (Renewal) | $2,835,510 |
| Urban Asphalt Program | $1,040,041 |
We want to hear from you!
The draft Long Term Financial Plan 2025/2026 is open for community feedback until Tuesday 10 June 2025.
If you have any questions, please let us know by using the contact details on the right of this page.
