Bellingen Shire Council - Estuary Action

Return health to the Bellinger and Kalang Rivers through community empowerment and on-ground action in partnership with local, state and Federal governments

Name of Applicant: Bellingen Shire Council

Camp Creative

Build the Helfgott Centre for performing arts as a multi use facility for music, dance, drama, lectures, functions and exhibitions in Bellingen using carbon neutral materials and minimising ongoing energy consumption.

Name of Applicant: Camp Creative Inc.

Coffs Harbour Conservatorium

Complete Stages 2 & 3 refurbishments of Lot 1/6a Bray Street and make good the roof. Stage 2 features a 178 seat performance space, instrument store, artists green room, meeting room and recording studio. Stage 3 includes three music rehearsal studios with disabled facilities. All Stages will be accessible by lift and available for community use.

Name of Applicant: Coffs Harbour Conservatorium Inc.

Centre for Open Learning and Business

Develop Coffs Harbour as a regional economic and education hub and an investment destination of choice through the establishment of the Centre of Learning and Business

Name of Applicant: Coffs Harbour City Council

Jetty Foreshores

Upgrade the harbourside precinct at Coffs Harbour to provide enhanced recreation facilities including boardwalks, new carpaking and open spaces, improved drainage and shower facilities, aboriginal dreaming sculpture, grading, trees and landscaping

Name of Applicant: Coffs Harbour City Council

BCU International Stadium

Extend the seating in the current BCU International Stadium grandstand to provide an additional 2000, - 3,000 seats, half of them undercover, new food and beverage and amenity blocks and upgrade parking.

Name of Applicant: Coffs Harbour City Council

Manning River Foreshore

Develop the Manning River Foreshore in Taree CBD as a central civic area of quality open space by constructing recreational and entertainment facilities, park environment and connective structures linking the area to residential and commercial development and CBD

Name of Applicant: Greater Taree City Council

Johns River

Three Brothers Region Village Transport and Tourism Stations Project in the highway bypassed villages of Johns River, Moorland and Kew – constructing combined amenities stations serving local and regional transport and tourism needs.

Name of Applicant: Johns River Community Progress Association Inc.

Kendall Tennis Club

Construct a 5-7 hard court tennis complex, including two mini courts for juniors. One court will have seating for 200 people. As the only hard court in the region aim will be to host State and National titles for juniors and wheelchair tennis players. Only 85 of Club’s current 125 junior members can play as there are currently only three courts.

Name of Applicant: Kendall Tennis Club Inc.

KSC - Employment Land

Enable development of 430 hectares of industrial land at South Kempsey to create 8,600 jobs by extending and augmenting water/sewerage and installing optical fibre infrastructure and developing a service centre for the Pacific Highway bypass.

Name of Applicant: Kempsey Shire Council

Lord Howe Island

Install 2 x 100kWh zinc bromide modules to store energy derived from renewable sources and surplus diesel generating capacity to meet peak demand on the Island. Will replace powerhouse which suffered major fire damage in 2009, reduce diesel consumption and allow for future installation of large scale solar and wind generation.

Name of Applicant: Lord Howe Island Board

Macleay Valley Workplace Learning Centre

The school has received international recognition for its work in providing children at risk with a high school education. It wants to now fill the demand from families outside Kempsey by providing 15 bed hostel facilities for boys, girls and house parents adjoining the College

Name of Applicant: Macleay Valley Workplace Learning Centre Inc

Midcoast Water

Construct the Nabiac Inland Dune Aquifer Borefield and Water Treatment Plant and acquire a property in the Manning River catchment for carbon sequestration and river bank protection to provide a secure, carbon-neutral water supply to 70,000 people serviced by the Manning Water Supply scheme and offset 30% of MCW’s carbon emissions.

Name of Applicant: MidCoast Country Council trading as MidCoast Water

Nambucca Council Transport

Purchase and develop a site in Nambucca Heads to be the headquarters for the Nambucca Valley Community Transport with secure garaging for its buses and cars, washdown and maintenance facilities, administration, drivers lounge and training room

Name of Applicant: Nambucca Shire Council

NEC Health and Aged Care

Assist residential and community care organisations improve their services to members of the aged community in all 55 RDAs by providing industry shared information technology infrastructure and software resources via high speed broadband

Name of Applicant: NEC Health and Aged Care on behalf of Aged Care Assn Australia, Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council, Aged and Community Services Australia and NEC as industry partner for cloud computing

PMHC - Regional Avaition

Collaborative development of Port Macquarie, Taree and Kempsey airport infrastructure whereby Port Macquarie further develops its sub regional passenger airline capacity and Taree and Kempsey airports focus on aviation training, aircraft maintenance and other general aviation related business activities.

Name of Applicant: Port Macquarie Hastings Council

Slim Dusty Centre

Fit out and Complete the Slim Dusty Centre to be fully functional.

Name of Applicant: Slim Dusty Museum Trust Fund

St Columba Anglican School Council

Build a home for Conservatorium Mid North Coast Inc. on school land for use jointly by the school and the conservatorium

Name of Applicant: Columba Anglican School Council Inc.

StartUp Business Development Program

Purchase and fit out a building in which to locate the StartUp Business Development Program, a business incubator, the Edmund Barton Institute for Regional Research, Policy and Leadership and commercial office space.

Name of Applicant: StartUp Business Development Program Inc

Taree Community College

Modify existing new building to cater for current and future College demand including disability access, aged care simulated learning environment and more training rooms.

Name of Applicant: Taree Community College

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