Women's Memorial Playing Fields

1443 The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light) (24 September 2019). What consultation process took place with the sporting clubs and organisations which use the facilities at the Women's Memorial Playing Fields (St Marys), regarding the designs and costings for the sporting facilities upgrade project?

1. 2019-20 Budget Paper No. 4, Vol. 4, p. 17, contains a table which lists the project's total cost at $8 million. What facility upgrades are included in this project?

2. Can you guarantee that $8 million in project funding will be sufficient to cover all project costs?

3. What arrangements have been made for the ongoing management and maintenance of the upgraded sporting facilities at the Women's Memorial Playing Fields, and which authority or organisation(s) will finance the ongoing maintenance activities?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing):

1. Consultation meetings were undertaken individually with the following sporting clubs and organisations: Cumberland United Women's Football Club, Sturt Lacrosse Club, Women's Memorial Playing Fields Trust and Forestville Hockey Club. Consultation meetings were undertaken with each group in June 2019. Concept plans were reviewed in July and September 2019.

2. The 2018-19 state budget allocated $8 million to upgrade the Women's Memorial Playing Fields at St Marys. This is intended to upgrade the memorial, clubrooms, change rooms, and hockey and lacrosse, soccer and training fields. The Premier announced at the 2019 Bangka Day Memorial service that $500,000 of this funding would be used to upgrade the memorial infrastructure itself.

The $8 million allocated in the 2018-19 state budget is in addition to the previous grant of $995,000 to Forestville Hockey Club towards a new synthetic pitch and $487,790 to Cumberland United Women's Football Club towards female friendly change rooms. The federal government has committed an additional $500,000 to the Memorial upgrade. The total project budget is $9,982,790.

3. Final project scope and budget requirements are expected by the end of the year.

4. A tender process for the operations and management of the Women's Memorial Playing Fields will be undertaken in the coming months.