FREMANTLE NETBALL ASSOCIATION
— PAVILION
862. Hon PETER COLLIER to the
Leader of the House representing the Minister for Sport and Recreation:
I refer to question without notice
839 asked on 19 September 2018 regarding the Fremantle Netball Association
pavilion for the southern suburbs netball hub.
(1) Can the
minister confirm that under the community sporting and recreation facilities
fund guidelines, funds will not be available for projects that have state
government funding in excess of 66.66 per cent of the total project cost?
(2) Can the
minister confirm that the state government's contribution to this
project exceeds the guidelines and that the state's contribution to
this project is 81.81 per cent?
(3) On what basis
did the Premier announce in October 2017 that the government has fulfilled its
election commitment to provide $1.8 million to the Fremantle Netball
Association, given the CSRFF advisory committee did not meet until 6 December
2017 to consider applications and make recommendations, and the minister did
not approve the project until 21 February 2018?
(4) Why does the
Minister for Sport and Recreation's media release dated 26 February
2018 announcing the latest round of funding under the CSRFF, and the Department
of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries' website, not
include this project in the list of successful grants for the 2018–19
round?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1) The community
sporting and recreation facilities fund guidelines, which are considered by the
department in its assessment of projects, provide that the state will fund up
to two-thirds of a project. The minister, as previous ministers have done,
allocated a larger proportion of state government funding to deliver this
election commitment to the benefit of netball families in the southern suburbs.
(2) The minister
approved the waiving of the maximum state funding contribution to deliver on
the government's election commitments. The waiving of this condition is
not unprecedented.
(3) The $1.8 million
contribution to the Fremantle Netball Association was an election commitment to
a facility serving the growing southern suburbs and used by approximately 5 000
women and girls on a weekly basis. Upon coming to government, further project
planning was undertaken. This formed the basis of the Department of Local
Government, Sport and Cultural Industries' recommendation to the
minister that that the project was ready to proceed. The Premier then announced
this in October 2017.
(4) The media release
of 26 February 2018 listed the projects approved by the minister on 19 January
2018. The Fremantle Netball Association project was approved by the Minister on
21 February 2018.