Page 4911 - Week 15 - Thursday, 8 December 1994
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Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question is as follows:
(1) Advance Bank Floriade 1994 cost an estimated $1,241,300.
(a) The ACT Government subvention for 1993/94 was $1,056,300.
(b) Revenue from sponsorship totalled $185,000. Cash sponsorship was received from: Advance Bank, Streets Ice Cream, Coca Cola Bottlers, Canberra Milk, Federal Airports Corporation, Ainslie Football Club, Instant Office Furniture and Countrylink. Details of individual cash sponsorship amounts are commercial in confidence.
(2) An estimated 461,000 people visited Floriade this year.
(3) Money raised by the sale of plant material and Floriade merchandise on site at Floriade 1994 is approximately $155,000. This figure-is still being finalised.
(4) The Yurt was dismantled in 1994 and is being stored at the City Parks Cotter Plots. It was erected as a temporary structure in 1988 using a grant of $25,000 from the Bicentennial Authority.
(5) Approximately 580,000 bulbs were used in the floral display in 1994. The majority were purchased from two companies, Tessellaars and Bakkers, at a total cost of approximately $218,000.
(6) None of the bulbs from 1994 have been salvaged by the Department for re-use, although about 1,000 bulbs are to remain in the "Meadow Gardens" in Commonwealth Park for next year.
(7) Officers in the ACT Parks and Conservation Service advised the ACT Government that if the bulbs were to be pulped, the loss would be approximately $7,000. The figure was arrived at by calculating the percentage of bulbs suitable for salvaging and then the purchase cost of replacing these bulbs with new stock, less the cost of recovery, including labour, hire of equipment, transport, cleaning, fumigation and storage of bulbs.
(8) Annuals were purchased from Woodlyns Nursery and cost approximately $40,000.
(9) It is not possible to estimate the actual cost of bulbs which were not salvaged by the Department and were subsequently retrieved by the citizens of Canberra. The amount taken by each person was not monitored and not all the bulbs were retrieved.
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