Parking fines are a moneymaker for Shellharbour City Council

According to the city council's draft delivery program, monitoring illegal parking around the local government area will cost $501,000 in the next financial year.

The expected revenue that will be brought in is $1.47 million - almost three times what council will spend.

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However, there are also plenty of actions council have planned for the coming financial year where the spending outweighs the return - but which are required nonetheless,

For instance, implementing the required Companion Animals legislation is expected to cost $551,000, but only return $94,000.

The delivery program also focuses on where council will spend money on capital works projects.

In the coming financial year, council will spend $24 million on upgrading existing facilities and $9.3 million on new projects.

Among those new projects is $1.6 million for another sportsfield at Myimbarr Community Park in Wattle Road, Shellharbour.

Dawes Park at Barrack Point will get a new basketball court, with $512,000 allocated.

A total of $2.6 million will be spent on new roads, including the Tripoli Way bypass project.

Council will also spend $231,000 on new footpaths and pathways, $629,000 on improving facilities at Shellharbour Airport and $405,000 on the 18^th green at the Links golf course at Shell Cove.

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