BATHURST Regional Council has adopted its budget for 2020-21, with two projects added to the plan at the last minute.
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The budget for the next financial year has been described as "business as usual", without taking COVID-19 impacts into account.
That means that money allocated in the budget may have to be moved around later to address the impacts of the pandemic as they arise.
Among the projects listed for 2020-21 is the Central Tablelands Collections Facility, with a $2.6 million allocation to start work on the project that, once complete, will provide storage for museums collections in the region.
Another multi-million dollar project included is further work at Jack Arrow Park in Hereford Street.
More than $5.18 million has been allocated to four elements of the project: the construction of a car park, two fields, a roundabout and lighting for the new fields.
While the draft budget was on public exhibition, council received a number of submissions which had to be considered prior to the budget being adopted.
The items were discussed at Wednesday's council meeting, with each submission detailed in a report and given a recommendation by the director of Corporate Services and Finance, Aaron Jones, as to whether or not the budget should be amended to include them.
Councillors accepted all bar two recommendations.
Mr Jones had recommended that council not amend the draft budget to include a $30,000 donation for a business case for the proposed Bathurst Regional Centre for Military History.
Instead, councillors resolved to provide the $30,000, with half of that coming from council's own funds, and the rest to be funded from grants or other sources.
Councillors also went against the recommendation not to include the go-kart track as a project above the line for next year, deciding to include it and seek grants to fund it entirely.
While councillor Jess Jennings, who voted against this along with Monica Morse and John Fry, argued that it was "pointless" as council was always looking for grants for this project, deputy mayor Ian North defended it as a way to keep attention on the project and increase chances of securing funding.
"I think we've got to have it in mind sight - we've been looking at it for a long time - and to give it the support and recognition," he said.
"It's clearly what I was doing and I didn't think it was pointless."
