FNQROC Regional Asset Management Strategy

Darlene Irvine, Executive Officer Gerard Read, Regional Infrastructure Coordinator

• 223,000 sq km

• Population of approx 260,000

Cairns Regional Council

Cassowary Coast Regional Council

Tablelands Regional Council

Cook Shire Council

Hinchinbrook Shire Council

Etheridge Shire Council

Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council

Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council

BOARD(Mayors & CEO’s)

Executive OfficerRegional Development Manual

FNQROC Natural Asset Management

FNQ Regional Road Group

FNQ Regional Asset Management Group

Admin Support

FNQ Planners Group

FNQROC Sustainability

Regional Nat. Asset Coord.

Reg. Infrastructure Coord.

Level of Service Subgroups

Water Sensitive Urban Design Guideline

Sub group – Vertebrate

Sub group – Landscape resilience

Community Planning

Local Laws

Procurement

2010 / 2011

Reg. Planning Officer.Regional Procurement Coordinator

Three significant questions

1. What is the total value of our Assets?2. What is the remaining life of these assets,

and3. What position are we going to be in, in 10,

15 and 20 years?

Why Consolidate the total value of our Assets?

Why is it important for our region to work collaboratively?

1. Environmental Impacts

2. Social Impacts, and

3. Economic impacts

• These items do not have local government boundaries

Ascertaining the lifecycle of assets and determining our risk portfolio across

these assets for the next 5, 10, 20 years

Some of the challenges facing LG in Qld include:

• Increasing community expectation for expansion of services and service levels

• Changing population profiles, with population growth management issues in many areas and decline in others

• Costs increasing at a greater rate than the CPI

• The replacement of ageing infrastructure

• The ‘tree’ and ‘sea change’ phenomena facing coastal and hinterland

• Provision of new services (aged care etc) not previously provided, and

• Compliance with increasing legislative, legal and governance requirements

1. Develop a Long Term Approach to Service Planning and Deliver at Council and Regional Level

2. Be consistent with a whole of government approach

Strategy Objectives

1. Linking policies and strategies with a Long Term Program

2. Develop Infrastructure Service Delivery Plans and Long Term Financial Plans

3. Develop Long Term Asset Management Plans Including Risk Management Plans

Key Findings

4. Build Asset Management Capacity within each Council

1. Population trends and environmental performance

Should rural communities operate as self-sustaining economic business units and what should happen if they can’t financially survive?

Many assets built in growth booms will need renewal within the next 20 years

How should we plan and fund asset renewal in communities with declining population?

How can we identify national or regional benefits provided by rural communities and fund these benefits at the national or regional level?

Are there environmental, social and cultural limitations to the trend of increased population density in cities and regional centres?

What role do rural communities play in the social and cultural well being of a country?

Central governments support ‘growth’, should they also support ‘decline’?

Strategic Issues

2. Transport Trends

3. Cost Shifting and Funding

4. Responsibility of Custodianship

5. Increasing Community Expectation

6. Skills Shortages

7. Changing Regulation

8. National Trends

Strategy Complete – What now?

What services do we currently deliver to the community through our infrastructure?

At what cost?

Regional Asset Management Strategy

•Completed early 2009•Updated late 2009 / early 2010 to reflect new Qld LG ActCredibility for strategy•Update included implementation plan

Legislative compliance Robust AM practice

Legislative Compliance

•CORE AM plans for major infrastructure assets – Dec 2010•ADVANCED AM plans for major infrastructure assets – June 2012•Major infrastructure assets defined by Qld DIP

Water & Wastewater Roads, Bridges, Tunnels Buildings

•Water and wastewater well covered already

Implementation Plan

•AMAP release by Qld DIP – late 2009

•Milestone program for AM plan development

•AMAP referred to in implementation plan

•IIMM adopted as standard for AM planning

•NAMS.Plus templates being used for AM plans

•NAMS.Plus gap analysis tool used for self-assessment

Strategy Done! Now what are we going to do …..

•Develop Levels of Service o Transport (Roads & Footpaths)o Parks & Sporting Facilitieso Buildings

•Regionally consistent

•Potential regional asset management plans

Community Plans & Levels of Service

•Regional LT community plan

•Levels of Service vital to community consultation

•Affordability & consistency

•What do you want?

•What can Council afford?

•How much are you prepared to pay for what you want?

•SORRY or NO PROBLEM!

Levels of Service Frameworks

•Commenced with Parks & Sporting Facilities – Easy!!

•Only just completed - not so #%&! easy!!

•Just commenced Buildings and Roads

•Regular workshops - all local governments represented

•Strong leadership at political level

•Collaboration at staff level

•Absence of completed existing frameworks

Levels of Service Frameworks

•Adopted NZ NAMS reference “Developing Levels of

Service and Performance Measures” as guide

•Quite detailed and complex but very thorough

•Levels of service need to be measurable in some form

•FNQROC framework → simple but useful

Levels of Service Frameworks

•NZ Reference

•Customer Value

•Level of Service

•Customer Performance Measure

•Technical Performance Measure

•FNQROC

•Customer Value

•Customer Level of Service

•Technical Level of Service / Performance Measure

Parks Levels of Service

•ClassesRegionalDistrictLocal

•Two Parts to LoS

•INVENTORY – What do we provide?

•CONDITION – How well do we look after it?

Parks Levels of Service

•CUSTOMER VALUES

1.Accessibility and Availability

2.Facilities and Infrastructure Provided

3.Quality and Reliability

4.Safety

Customer Value - Accessibility PARKS

Customer Level of Service Standard Technical Level of Service / Performance Indicator

Adequate & usable park space providedHectares of park provided per 1000 head of population

Size of park - minimum, median, maximum (hectares)

Slope of park (fall - 1 in x)

Flood immunity of park (% above say ARI 50 level)

No. of complaints received about overcrowding (per annum)Parks are located within walking distance of homes

% of parks with safe walking access and / or path links

% of urban residents live within 1000m of a parkParks have adequate on / off street parking

No. of complaints received from residents near parks about parking congestion (per annum)

No. of complaints received from park users about parking (per annum)Parks are easily accessible by public transport

% of parks have bus stop located with 300mParks are wheelchair accessible

% of parks are wheelchair accessible

% of parks that cater for disabled parking

No. of complaints received about disabled access to parks (per annum)Parks are available for public / private functions

% requests for use are condition approved

Customer Value - Accessibility

Customer Level of Service Standard Technical Level of Service / Performance Indicator

Good quality suitable "active" facilities provided in parks % of parks have playground equipment

% of parks have sporting / recreational facility (eg. basketball hoop etc)

No. of dog off leash parks / areasGood quality suitable "passive" facilities provided in parks % of parks have toilets

% of beach parks have showers

% of parks have BBQs

% of parks have seating only

% of parks have tables and seating

% of parks have drinking water

% of parks have shade shelters

% of parks have paths

% of parks have power

% of parks have night lighting

Customer Value - Facilities & Infrastructure Provided

Customer Level of Service Standard Technical Level of Service / Performance Indicator

Grassed surfaces are well maintained % of parks with mowing standard A

% of parks with mowing standard B

% of parks with mowing standard C

% of parks with rehab and maintenance standard A

% of parks with rehab and maintenance standard B

% of parks with rehab and maintenance standard C

% of parks irrigated (automated or manual)Trees and gardens are well maintained % of parks with maintenance standard A

% of parks with maintenance standard B

% of parks with maintenance standard CParks are clean and tidy % of parks have rubbish bins

% of parks with collection frequency A

% of parks with collection frequency B

% of parks with collection frequency C

Customer Value - Quality & Reliability

Customer Level of Service Standard

Technical Level of Service / Performance Indicator

Park is generally a safe environment% of parks perimeter fencing / barriers to prevent vehicle access

% road frontage of park

No. of reported safety incidents (per annum)Playground equipment is safe to use

% playground equipment complies with AS/NZS 4486, AS/NZS 4422, AS 4685

No. of reported playground accidents (per annum)Other facilities are safe to use

& of parks with inspection and maintenance standard A

& of parks with inspection and maintenance standard B

& of parks with inspection and maintenance standard C

No. of reported accidents pertaining to facilities (per annum)

Customer Value - Safety

What next?

•LGs currently trialing Parks LoS framework

•Determining current LoS and costing

•Over-Servicing / Under-Servicing / Just Right?

•Minimum and Desired LoS in future

•Common regional LoS in future??

•Transport LoS and Building LoS in progress

•Remaining Life and Unit Rate Calculations

Natural areas

Definition: An area of natural vegetation or land that is not used for the defined purpose of a sporting facility or park

A natural area might be zoned within/adjoining or adjacent to a defined sporting facility or park.

A natural area is defined by its vegetation type and can range in quality from highly degraded non remnant vegetation to high integrity remnant vegetation and in many cases it is to be expected that a natural area will contain both.

Open Spaces (Natural areas)Parcel types that are covered in this category might include;

RESERVES FOR CONSERVATION COASTAL AND FORESHORE RESERVES AND ESPLANADES DRAINAGE RESERVES AND ESPLANADES

Other parcel types that contain natural areas;RESERVES FOR DUMPING

QUARRY RESERVES ROAD RESERVES AND EASEMENTS LAND WITH OTHER UNALLOCATED USE RESERVE FOR CAMPING RECREATION & PARKRESERVE FOR LOCAL GOVT (BOAT HARBOUR)RESERVE FOR SCENIC & RECREATION PURPOSESRESERVE FOR PARKWATER SUPPLY RESERVERESERVE FOR SCENIC PURPOSESRESERVE FOR CAMPING & GRAVEL PURPOSESSTOCK RESERVES RIVER IMPROVEMENT TRUST SITES (PENDING)

Levels of serviceThree scales – local , district & regional

Determine standard of service delivery – bare minimum to Best Management Practice

Technical LOSControl pests, Manage dumping of wastePest mappingFire mitigationUnauthorised accessReserve edge managementRehabilitationManage faunaEngage communityMonitor and assessEcological fire managementRestoration of connectivity/composition

Three stage approach to assessment

End productRegional natural areas/assets data set(TAB, .shp, .xls, .kmz , .dbf …etc)

End product

Key attributes (parcel)

•Area (each bio-diversity attribute, other open space)

•% cover (each bio-diversity attribute, other open space)

•Proximity zoning(WHA, National Parks, other high reserves)

•Proximity other features (beach fronts, drainage, riparian

wetlands)

•Distance along networks (2031 corridors)

•Specific values tabled (regional ecosystems)

•Presence/absence of pests & weeds

www.fnqroc.qld.gov.au

Darlene IrvineExecutive Officer

Gerard ReadReg. Infrastructure Coordinator

p: 07 4044 3038m: 0403 808 680e: d.irvine@cairns.qld.gov.au

m: e: g.read@cairns.qld.gov.au