TABLE 1: SUMMARY OF SUSTAINABILITY VICTORIA OUTCOMES AND INITIATIVES IN 2014–15* Sustainability Victoria’s priorities Outcome Sustainability Victoria’s 2014–15 programs Reach Helping Victorians use energy and materials more efficiently. Increased energy efficiency of households and commercial office buildings engaged in our programs. First Rate 5 Smarter Households (Smarter Choice, Smarter Renovations and Whitegoods rebate) Commercial Offices Building Calculating Cool Retailers to households Direct to households Mid-tier office building owners Increased energy and materials efficiency of small to medium- sized businesses and schools engaged in our programs. Smarter Resources Smarter Business ResourceSmart Schools Program Small to mid-sized businesses Schools and early childhood centres Helping Victorians avoid waste. Increased awareness and uptake of waste-reduction practices in targeted sectors. Get it Right on Bin Night Love Food Hate Waste (Household Food Waste Avoidance) Smarter Business, Smarter Resources – Beyond Waste Small to mid-sized businesses Local government authorities to households Ensuring Victoria has integrated, statewide waste management. Planning and coordinating the implementation of integrated, statewide waste management. Australian Packaging Covenant Baseline Waste Data SWRRIP Victorian Community and Business Waste Education Strategy Waste and Resource Recovery Investment Strategy Waste and Resource Recovery Procurement Support Waste Data Collection and Governance Local government authorities and waste and resource recovery industry Local government authorities to households
ID Consultancy name Description Start date End date Total approved fees $ Expenditure 2014–15 $ Future Expenditure $ 9 8467 Roberts Evaluation Pty Ltd Development and delivery of the Victorian Litter Action Alliance (VLAA) stakeholder survey 2012–2014. 08/01/15 31/03/15 26,500 26,500 0 10 8331 Marsden Jacob Associates Pty Ltd as trustee Evaluation reports for ResourceSmart Schools and Smarter Resources Smarter Business – Energy and Materials. 02/10/14 19/12/14 29,958 29,958 0 11 8226 Hyder Consulting Pty Ltd Options and advice to develop a collaborative procurement support function for WRRGs and local governments 04/08/14 12/09/14 44,828 44,828 0 12 8508 Sustainable Resource Use Pty Ltd Survey of regional reprocessors and material recovery facilities operators, and analysing waste and resource recovery data.. 10/02/15 15/06/15 46,815 39,235 7,580 13 8594 Expert Group as The trustee for Brodribb Kent Research and cost-benefit modelling of increasing energy efficiency of electric fans. 15/05/15 19/08/15 49,579 25,780 23,798 14 8198 IOD PARC Australasia Pty Ltd Beyond Waste Fund evaluation to measure the impact of the program and identify the key learnings to inform communications and future program development in waste. 22/07/14 27/10/14 56,100 56,100 0 8242 Hyder Consulting Pty Ltd Research to help develop a statewide waste education strategy including best practice approaches for waste and public education. 27/08/14 07/01/15 105,750 99,750 6,000 Details of consultancies (valued at less than $10,000) In 2014–15, there were two consultancies engaged during the year, where the total fees payable to the consultants was less than $10,000. The total expenditure incurred during 2014–15 in relation to these consultancies was $12,765 (excl. GST). Government advertising expenditure Sustainability Victoria’s expenditure in the 2014–15 reporting period on government campaign advertising did not exceed $150,000.
TABLE 6.5: RECONCILIATION OF LEVEL 3 FAIR VALUE 2015 2014 Office furniture & equipment $ Computer equipment $ Office furniture & equipment $ Computer equipment $ Opening balance 116,241 348,414 84,579 367,121 Purchases (sales) - 35,895 69,583 175,022 Gains or losses recognised in net result - - (359) - Depreciation (35,956) (192,896) (37,562) (193,729) Subtotal 80,285 191,413 116,241 348,414 Closing balance 80,285 191,413 116,241 348,414 TABLE 6.6: DESCRIPTION OF SIGNIFICANT UNOBSERVABLE INPUTS TO LEVEL 3 VALUATIONS 2015 Valuation technique Significant unobservable inputs Office furniture & equipment Depreciated replacement cost Cost per unit Computer equipment Depreciated replacement cost Cost per unit 2014 Valuation technique Significant unobservable inputs Office furniture & equipment Depreciated replacement cost Cost per unit Computer equipment Depreciated replacement cost Cost per unit Note 7. Other non-financial assets 2015 $ 2014 $ Current other assets Prepayments 197,276 194,831 Total current other assets 197,276 194,831 Total other non-financial assets 197,276 194,831
Legislation Requirement Page reference Legislation Sustainability Victoria Act 2005 (Vic) 2, 29, 50, 81 Environment Protection Act 1970 (Vic) 2, 25, 81, 82 Environment Protection and Sustainability Victoria Amendment Act 2014 (Vic) 76 Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic) 43 Building Act 1983 (Vic) 43 Financial Management Act 1994 (Vic) 50 Victorian Industry Participation Policy Act 2003 (Vic) 43 Protected Disclosure Act 2012 (Vic) 44
NEW ALLOCATIONS MADE UNDER EXISTING SUSTAINABILITY FUND SUPPORT PROGRAMS Overseen by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Funding Program: Communities for Nature Grants Program: Round 4 – Small Grants Organisation Program Funding support $ Sherbrooke Community School Rehabilitation of the Conservation Area – Linking Dandenong Ranges National Park and Sassafras Creek Reserve. 9,915 Silvan Primary School Community – Parents and Friends Land for Wildlife and Habitat Regeneration 10,000 Snape Reserve Committee of Management Weed Control on Snape Reserve 689 Solway Sustainability Committee Wildlife Corridor 7,190 South Gippsland Landcare Network Restoring and Recognising the Environmental Values of Turtons Creek 7,950 Southern Otway Landcare Network Learning the Weeds – Community Weed Control at the Wild Dog Creek 9,875 St Aloysius Catholic Primary School Enhancement of Biodiversity within St Alyosius Catholic Primary School and St Ignatius College 6,000 St James PA St James Children’s and Community Garden 8,500 St Arnaud Field Naturalists Club Inc. Recovery of the FFG-listed threatened Grey Grasstree in the St Arnaud Region 5,130 Stony Rises Landcare Group Stony Rises Vegetation Corridors and Wetland Protection Project 10,000 Stony Rises Landcare Group Stony Rises Habitat Enhancement Project 2,565 Surf Coast and Inland Plains Network Preserve, Protect and Enhance Isolated Remnant River Red Gum and VVP Grasslands Surrounding Lake Modewarre 9,500 Tallangatta Rail Trail Advisory Group Bullioh Biodiversity Corridor 10,000 Telopea Downs Agricultural and Landcare Group Communities Improving Habitat Resilience and Viability and Protecting Middens (Friends of Williams Road Beach) 3,565 The Field Naturalist Club of Victoria Inc. Protecting FFG-Listed Species along the Clyde-Tooradin Railway 3,153 The Friends of the Marysville Walks Inc. Narbethong Holly Control Project 10,000 Thornbury Primary School Thornbury Primary School Wurundjeri Plants Revegetation project 10,000 Torquay Landcare Group Inc. Spring Creek East Indigenous Vegetation Enhancement 2,700 UP2Us Landcare Network Linking the Fords Creek to Create a Habitat Corridor 10,000 Upper Hopkins Land Management Group Biodiversity Corridor for Broadacres 8,976 Upper Mount Emu Creek Landcare Network Essential Revegetation to Improve Biodiversity and Habitat in Miners Rest 2,905
NEW ALLOCATIONS MADE UNDER EXISTING SUSTAINABILITY FUND SUPPORT PROGRAMS Overseen by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Funding Program: Communities for Nature Grants Program: Round 4 – Small Grants Organisation Program Funding support $ Upper Ovens Valley Landcare Group Propagating Community Capacity 9,980 UT Creek Maintongoon Landcare group Maintongoon Lookout Restoration 1,800 Victoria University Seeds from the Streets 9,248 Wannon Nigretta Community Group Wannon River Weed Removal 1,200 Warby Range Landcare Group Inc. Habitat Linkage Corridors Connecting Winton Wetlands to Warby Ovens National Park 9,830 Watson Creek Catchment Group Watson Creek Restoration Project 10,000 West Gippsland Relic, Mining and Heritage Protection Inc. Aberfeldy Tracks 10,000 Woady Yaloak Catchment Group Biodiversity Conservation and Habitat in the Mt Mercer Area 9,906 Wodonga to Cudgewa Rail Trail Committee Inc. Birdscaping Wodonga’s Disused Railway Corridor 10,000 Wodonga Urban Landcare Network Ground-Ready Revegetation 10,000 Woomelang Lascelles Landcare Group Wiping-out Rabbit Numbers Around Woomelang and Lascelles 9,938 Wooragee Landcare Group Reedy Creek Riparian Habitat Enhancement and Restoration 9,900 Wurundjeri Walk Advisory Committee Wurundjeri Walk Revegetation Project 2014 1,260 Yarram Yarram Landcare Network Protecting the Coastal Vegetation Communities of Corner Inlet and Noorumunga’s Ramsar-Listed Breeding Grounds 10,000
NEW ALLOCATIONS MADE UNDER EXISTING SUSTAINABILITY FUND SUPPORT PROGRAMS Overseen by Sustainability Victoria Funding Program: ResourceSmart Schools (previously ResourceSmart AuSSI Vic) Organisation Program Funding support $ 208 Victorian Schools Energy Efficiency Grants 10,000 per school 1 Victorian School Energy Efficiency Grant 6,750 NEW ALLOCATIONS MADE UNDER EXISTING SUSTAINABILITY FUND SUPPORT PROGRAMS Overseen by Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Funding Program: Environmental Partnerships – Protecting Native Vegetation and Threatened Species Organisation Program Funding support $ Wimmera CMA, Glenelg Hopkins CMA Protecting Native Vegetation 2,536,476 Corangamite CMA Protecting Native Vegetation 451,537 Mallee CMA Protecting Native Vegetation 1,594,752 North Central CMA, North East CMA, Goulburn Broken CMA Protecting Native Vegetation 4,584,089 West Gippsland CMA Protecting Native Vegetation 431,274 Grants (for 249 threatened flora and fauna actions) Protecting Threatened Flora and Fauna 3,500,000