Concert fee debate as popular festival heads west
The City of Busselton council will be discussing waiving several event-based fees totalling $20,000 for the upcoming One Night Stand event, hosted by Triple J, at their meeting on Wednesday night.
Organisers of the event, set for May 24, have asked for the in-kind $20,000 contribution, which includes waiving ground, venue hire and associated fees and charges, including a $12,878 Barnard Park concert ground hire fee, a $4200 YCAB venue hire for workshop sessions, and a $1074 fee towards hiring the digital billboard for two weeks.
Other costs include road closure fees, a concert application fee, and a traffic management plan application fee, although the organisers will have to pay bonds for any damages and statutory fees charged by the city for concert approvals.
In the officer comments provided for councillors to help their decision making, it was stated the city had received contact from a Triple J last December about Busselton's nomination to host the event. The Triple J team inspected facilities at Barnard Park in January, and the city received the announcement Busselton was the host location in February.
The event is expected have a capacity of 15,000 — according to the officer comments — with tickets selling out within six hours of its release and mostly taken up by people in the State and South West region.
Previous events in other regional areas have brought economic benefit worth more than $1.2 million, with the event expected to be broadcast live on Triple J nationally and several activations to take place around the main concert.
Triple J requests in-kind support from the host location with event communications and logistics and on-the-ground support. The waiving is expected to have direct costs to the city — including traffic management and potential post-event rehabilitation costs.
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