Hospitals across the Wagga electorate have emerged as the big winners with millions of dollars in works from the 2019/20 NSW Budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon.
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However, some of the state's fastest growing regional suburbs, located north of Wagga, have to receive a dollar figure for a planned new school
The budget papers mentioned a new school at Estella but contained no specific money attached to the project.
Wagga-based Nationals upper house MP Wes Fang said there was still an "iron-clad guarantee" that the new school would be built.
"Because it's in the budget it's an iron-clad guarantee that the school is going to be built, however the design and construction work is still being finalised," he said.
"We can't allocate a dollar figure to it until we have the final cost, but we have $6.7 billion over the forward budget to build school infratructure.
"The figure is to be determined once the planning is finalised."
NSW Teachers Federation Riverina organiser John Pratt said Estella would face traffic and liveability issues in the future if did not get a new school in the near future.
"It's the same old, same old: lots of promises but nobody wants to show up with a shovel," he said.
"We need to get some foundations dug and some classrooms built but it's not happening."
Former Liberal Wagga MP Daryl Maguire has previously said that the new school project would start this year with completion due in 2021.
Mr Fang said the school project would still meet that deadline at this stage.
Along with a minority of new school builds and upgrade projects in the budget, the Estella school has had no specific spending this financial year, and no allocation for 2019/20.
Wagga City Council last year told Estella Progress Association that their area's population was growing at 5.3 per cent a year and was second only to Tweed Heads as the state's fastest growing regional suburb.
Multiple development applications for residential subdivisions, each proposing hundreds of new homes at Estella and Gobbagombalin, have been submitted to the council in the past 12 months.
"That growth area must come with services, and the most important and most critical service you could put on the ground there is a public school," Mr Pratt said.
"A local public school is the centrepoint for a community and you can't have a community developing and the rate that Estella appears to be without a focal point.
"We don't want a situation where a community is developing but all the kids are being bused off to schools located all over Wagga."
The budget has committed $30 million for its 2018 byelection promise to build a new parking complex at Wagga Base Hospital and $71 million for the hospital's ongoing redevelopment.
Independent Wagga MP Joe McGirr said the government had made a "good start" and "appeared to be following through on its promises".
"It appears to be a record spend for the electorate," he said.
"It appears to be a responsible budget given the income pressures the government is facing and certainly in terms of the infrastructure announcements I would get optimistic but we still have to keep them up to the mark."
However, the the budget has allocated just $250,000 this financial year for the car park's planning phase, with the rest of the money to come over four years.
Tumut Hospital upgrade has been allocated the full $50 million over four years, with $3.5 million forecast to be spent over the coming financial year.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard said the NSW government was "committed to building healthy and resilient regional and rural communities".
"We are making record investments in health in every corner of the state - building new hospitals, upgrading existing health facilities and expanding community health services," he said.
Mr Fang said the government was "delivering on its commitments" from the byelection and general election campaigns.
Labor opposition acting leader Ryan Park criticised the budget in Parliament.
"After presiding over a property boom, $70 billion worth of privatisation, and a promise we could have it all, how do you justify the massive job cuts and a record $39 billion debt in this budget going forward?" he said.
Wagga City Council had hoped to see $30 million in grants for infrastructure to support the Riverina Intermodal Freight Hub and the Special Activation Precinct for industrial business growth at Bomen.
There was no specific spending on that type in the budget, but the Bomen precinct will share in $113 million in the coming financial year "to plan and progress state significant infrastructure projects under the fund including digital connectivity, international airfreight hubs and the special activation precincts program".
Along with access to community drought relief, Wagga will share in $22.9 million to upgrade regional food and fibre research stations to ensure "our agricultural industries are best-placed to remain productive and competitive".
Adelong will share in $15.9 million to redevelop its police station along with other regional towns.
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