Northern Midlands Infrastructure Funding Boost

Posted on July 07, 2022

Northern Midlands Council has secured almost $1 million under an extension of the Australian Government’s Local Roads Community Infrastructure Program.

Mayor Knowles OAM said today the grants program would allow Council to deliver further vital community infrastructure projects while maintaining a healthy financial position.

“These grants were introduced to help local communities bounce back from COVID-19 and have allowed Council to leverage our own-source funding to bring forward by many years important projects which creates jobs and benefit our economy,” Mayor Knowles said.

The Australian Government committed an additional $500 million in the 2022-23 federal budget to extend the $1 billion Phase 3 of the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) Program to $1.5 billion, bringing the total funding under the program to $3 billion.

Mayor Knowles said that while all municipalities across Australia benefitted under the program, first introduced in 2020-21, Northern Midlands Council’s prior planning and healthy budget position had meant it was able to quickly bring forward projects to qualify for funding.

So far Northern Midlands received $3.87 million under the program and has qualified for $960,936 additional funding under the extension of Stage 3.

Mayor Knowles said council had contributed $3.31 million of its own-source funding to the projects.

Projects delivered under LRCI funding include:

Construction of new projects under the latest funding round are due to be completed by 30 June 2024.

For further information, please contact Mayor Mary Knowles OAM on 0408 766 625.