Town reserves

Free cash and capital

Free cash paid $655,424 of the $1,225,000 FY2026 capital programme; FY2027 plans $991,627 of $1,830,203.

1 · The facts

  • $655,424

    free cash into capital, FY2026

  • $1,225,000

    the whole capital programme, FY2026

  • $1,016,722

    free cash into capital, FY2025

  • 5

    of 10 with free cash the largest source

  • $991,627

    free cash planned for FY2027

  • $1,830,203

    the whole FY2027 programme

  • $594,000

    of it from the vehicle stabilization fund

  • $1,437,005

    ranked, costed work below the FY2027 line

2 · What it shows

  1. 1

    Free cash was the capital plan’s largest source in 5 of the 10 years it publishes.

  2. 2

    $594,000 of FY2027’s programme comes from a fund restricted to vehicles and equipment.

  3. 3

    Ranked projects worth $1,437,005 already sit below the FY2027 funding line.

How capital was paid for, by year
YearFree cashdistrict sheetTaxationdistrict sheetOther sourcesdistrict sheetTotaldistrict sheet
FY2026$655,424$244,576$325,000$1,225,000
FY2025$1,016,722$0$300,398$1,317,120
FY2024$467,269$556,789$14,952$1,039,010
FY2023$983,034$967,725$212,090$2,162,849
FY2022$804,041$682,502$111,282$1,597,825
FY2021$647,880$487,507$6,826$1,142,213
FY2020$582,732$923,236$178,132$1,684,100
FY2019$215,736$768,000$471,478$1,455,214
FY2018$290,019$343,298$0$633,317
FY2017$250,000$349,023$20,452$619,475

The FY2027 capital plan’s own ten-year funding table. Other sources is unspent prior-year capital and anything else the table prints.

Sources

What changed

Version 15 — updated September 20, 2026