The Harden Racecourse sits adjacent to land set to be used for the construction of the Rural Fire Service Headquarters next to Burley Griffin Way, East of Harden. Pictured: The finishing line at Harden.
Residents and ratepayers of Harden-Murrumburrah will be coughing up for the connection of water and sewer to the Rural Fire Service Headquarters after Council resolved that it would a Receive and note the report; and
(c) Allocate the sum of $760,000 for the connection of sewerage and water infrastructure from the Harden Water and Sewer reserve or as borrowings incorporated into the 2019.20 budget; Council also resolved
(d) Contribute 40% of power supply costs to the site (approx. $184,000), noting its benefit to the Racecourse subdivision from the 2019.20 budget; It is unclear what subdivision is occuring at the Harden Racecourse. The land for which the RFS is set to be constructed on is zoned Crown Land. Council also resolved to
(e) Acknowledge that the road construction costs will be managed by RFS. (b) Acknowledge the $300,000 received from the Kruger Trust to the project.
According to the Australian Not-For-Profits Commission, the 2018 Annual Information statement for the Trustee For The Geoffrey Kruger Trust states that the Trust has Total current assets of $4,254,735.00
Non – current loans receivable of $3,696,001.00
Other non-current assets of $39,921,260.00
Total non-current assets of $43,617,261.00 and
Total Assets of $47,871,996.00
The sewerage and water costs in Harden are slated to increase.
