Building community and city foundations

In June 2022, Council adopted its Annual Business Plan and Budget 22/23 (ABP). Each year our ABP provides a clear plan for the year ahead and in 2022/23 we will continue to deliver the things we know matter most to you – building core infrastructure, improving the local environment and supporting a healthy, happy lifestyle for people living in Playford. We will continue our program of renewing roads, footpaths and kerbs; we will plant an additional 2,000 trees across the city and we have increased investment in our sports facilities and recreation spaces, boosted by $6.64M in grant funding from the State Government. This is in addition to ongoing delivery of the everyday services you expect – collecting waste and recycling, mowing verges, cleaning streets and removing graffiti; providing access to thousands of resources at our libraries and offering wellbeing, aged and youth services through our community centres. These are the things we know will make a positive difference to the lives of people in our community and create noticeable change in local neighbourhoods. You can read more about the investment we are proudly making in parks, reserves, playgrounds, recreation space and sports facilities in the coming pages.

To read the full plan head to playford.sa.gov.au/annualbusinessplan

Using money wisely

Council is committed to maintaining a responsible budget while keeping rates as low as possible. We continue to implement our long-term Finance Strategy to manage debt and make the organisation financially sustainable, through ongoing breakeven or surplus operating positions and reducing historical debt. The 22/23 budget maintains an operating surplus, meaning we only spend the income we have and do not borrow money for ongoing service delivery.