Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm pleased to announce that the City of Joondalup has been allocated a financial assistance grant for the 2021 financial year of $5.63 million. This includes $2.26 million in local road funding for upgrading and maintaining suburban roads, including road resurfacing works and major intersection upgrades. These improvements will be completed along busy roads, including Marmion Avenue, Whitfords Avenue, Joondalup Drive, Ocean Reef Road and Hepburn Avenue, improving road safety for our community.

I thank the residents who returned my recent community survey, nominating roads in poor repair. I'm working with the City of Joondalup to include these locations in the capital works plan with the subsidy of the road funding made available.

A further $3.7 million has been delivered in the form of general-purpose funding for the city to allocate at its discretion for the maintenance and improvement of community facilities. This latest round of federal funding reduces the pressure on council rates and the financial burden on ratepayers. As the federal budget is due to be delivered during the upcoming October sitting of parliament, I will continue to advocate strongly, on behalf of a number of community organisations within my electorate, for priority local facilities submitted for consideration as part of the budgetary process.