State Budget funds work on Blackwall Rd intersection
The State Budget will provide $13.6 million for the Blackwall Rd and McMasters Rd intersection "to commence intersection improvement works", according to Member for Gosford Ms Liesl Tesch.
Umina Beach Public School has been singled out for support on the Peninsula, sharing in $1.4 million with Central Mangrove Public School for "local school upgrades".
It will also be funded as the site of a new public preschool.
Elsewhere in the Gosford electorate, "continued planning and design for the Gosford bypass" has been allocated $3 million, "as part of $40 million over four years".
She said $3.38 million would be spent for upgrades to social housing properties across the Gosford electorate.
Ms Tesch said: "This budget is a budget, which invests in our essential services while getting our state back on track.
"The 2024-25 NSW Budget focuses on rebuilding the services that our community rely on most, including investments in our education infrastructure, upgrading our major roads, providing more homes and investing in our healthcare system."
She highlighted a road safety budget of $2.8 billion and $3.3 billion for restoration works on flood-damaged roads.
She said $6.6 billion would be spent to build 8400 new public homes and repair 33,500 public homes "in desperate need of repair".
It would fund homelessness services and crisis accommodation and "deliver over 21,000 affordable and market homes across our state".
A $480.7 million Emergency Department Relief Package would "help avoid an estimated 290,000 visits to emergency departments each year," Ms Tesch said.
She said a $171.4 million expansion of the Healthdirect Single Front Door service was aimed at "saving 180,000 trips" to emergency departments each year.
A "bulk billing initiative" would implement new payroll tax rebates for contractor GPs at clinics that meet bulk-billing thresholds.
She said $83.1 million would be spent over the next four years to retain TAFE teachers, $17.1 million to train early childhood educators, and $430 million on fee relief.
Job security would be provided for firefighters with an expenditure of $189.5 million over four years.
SOURCE:
Media release, 18 Jun 2024
Liesl Tesch, Member for Gosford