Dubbo City Council's draft plan for the new financial year does not include the creation of a $28,000 per year traineeship position to assist with youth activities.
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The council on Monday voted to place its draft operational plan and budget for 2016-2017 on public exhibition, in which there is a projected total budget expenditure of $160 million.
The Dubbo City Youth Council had made a submission suggesting the engagement of a young person on a 12-month traineeship to assist the council youth development officer with youth activities.
The youth council had first called for the creation of a traineeship position to better engage the city's young people in 2014.
The cost of a traineeship would be about $28,000 per year, council community services director David Dwyer said in his report to the extraordinary council meeting on Monday.
The traineeship would be available to those young people who had already committed to serving on the youth council for no less than 12 months.
If successfully completed, the trainee would gain a nationally recognised qualification.
But the traineeship does not form part of the draft operational plan and budget, which will be placed on public exhibition from Friday for 28 days.
"Although a worthy submission by the youth council, no budget allocation has been made due to funding limitations and other funding priorities particularly asset renewal backlogs," Mr Dwyer said in his report.
The draft budget contains an additional $16.7 million allocation to asset renewal works over the next four financial years.
The allocation to the council's infrastructure backlog was provided as a direct outcome of council's four project response to the Percy Allan report and the council's implementation of programs associated with its adopted Fit for the Future improvement plan, council general manager Mark Riley said in his report to the council.