Wyndham City has formally endorsed its 2024/25 Annual Report, providing a unique snapshot of the infrastructure and services Council has provided its growing community over the past financial year.
During 2024/25, Wyndham City delivered $148.2 million worth of capital works, including $29 million on roads, $68.3 million on recreational, leisure and community facilities, $5 million on footpaths and cycleways and $14.9 million on parks, open spaces and streetscapes.
Among the highlights for 2024/25 is the opening of the new $12.6 million Lollypop Creek Community Centre, delivering three and four-year-old kindergarten, maternal child health and community spaces for Werribee families.
Wyndham City also completed stage one of the Jamieson Way Community Centre and Reserve expansion in Point Cook, including an expanded kindergarten outdoor play area, new maternal and child health consulting rooms, new multipurpose meeting spaces and more.
Other project highlights include health club upgrades at AquaPulse and Eagle Stadium, three new dog off-leash parks, tennis court redevelopments at Wootten Road Reserve and Galvin Park, and several open space upgrades, including The Strand Park, Cambridge Crescent Park, Pierbrook Avenue Park and more.
Wyndham City Mayor Councillor Mia Shaw said the Annual Report demonstrated Council's commitment to delivering high quality services and infrastructure for Wyndham.
"Each year Council delivers a range of diverse services that support the wellbeing, infrastructure, and vitality of the local community and millions of dollars in capital works, designed to continue to make Wyndham a great place to live. Nothing captures the breadth of what we do better than our Annual Report."
"Wyndham is one of the fastest growing municipalities in Australia, with a population of 337,009 in 2024. In the last two years Wyndham experienced a 4 per cent population increase, equivalent to an additional 12,000 residents over this period."
"Delivering all our services at the levels required for our population continues to be a challenge. Cost of living pressures and reduced State and Federal funding are making it increasingly difficult for the sector to continue to deliver for their communities, particularly in growth areas. Wyndham continues to prioritise liveability when making decisions about the provision of services and infrastructure."
"We provided over 31,000 Key Ages and Stages Maternal and Child Health visits, delivered 968 Youth programs with over 30,000 young people attending and our Community Centres provided 117 programs with 3,551 attendees."
"Our community not only kept physically healthy with 2.3 million visits to major leisure facilities but enriched their minds with over 1.1 million visits to our libraries with 1.8 million library loans made."
"We were also proud to help bring our community together, with more than 180,000 attendees enjoying our calendar of Council's major events, delivery of 261 Arts and Culture programs with 51,879 attendees and 35 citizenship ceremonies held with 6,423 citizens conferred."
"Council continues to keep Wyndham clean, and in 2024/25 we collected over 7,911 tonnes of litter and dumped rubbish, collected 5.5 million garbage bins and over 67,000 hard waste collections. We also planted over 32,000 trees and maintained over 250,000 trees and responded to 778 graffiti requests."
Read the full report at www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/annual-report
