An injection of $2 million from the Hastings District Council towards the new community health and sports centre at Hawke's Bay Regional Sports Park means building on the development can get under way in October.
During this year's annual plan process the council asked the community whether it supported this investment and Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule said 18 submissions were received, with all but one supportive of the funding.
Last week's confirmation that the investment would be made meant building work could now start, subject to resource and building consents, said project leader Sir Graeme Avery.
He told councillors last week that the council contribution to the $15 million budget would ensure the project remained on schedule.
"By the time tenders need to be let, the trust is on track to have $12 million raised to cover the main building with the balance of $3 millions in place for other parts of the project," Sir Graeme said.