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The South African Institution of Civil Engineering

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The South African Institution of Civil Engineering

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    1. Gauteng PPP conference 18 February 2010 Infrastructure Development

    2. Population served ~ 14 million Civil engineering professionals ~ 2500 + 21 + civil staff per hundred thousand population

    3. Functions performed

    4. Population served ~ 47 million Civil engineering professionals in 2007 ~ 1300 + ~2.8 civil staff per hundred thousand population Wall to wall local government since 2000

    5. Successful local authorities

    6. Numbers and Needs in Local Government : Civil Engineering the critical profession for service delivery November 2007 Functions performed

    7. Bleeding has taken place for a long time

    10. Limited maintenance waste, sanitation, stormwater challenges

    11. The electricity challenge Ageing distribution networks and equipment High losses due to poor financial management, calibration and theft Total lack of funds for maintenance Vandalisation, cable & transformer theft for copper 10% energy savings required by ESKOM Limited engineering staff remain Few GCC registered Few artisans No O&M waiting for the REDs for the past 17 years!

    12. Water losses

    13. What to do new dams or fix leaks huge cost benefit to fix leaks!

    14. Maintenance has become prohibitively expensive because of neglect

    15. Rough estimate of maintenance backlogs in Gauteng

    17. Functions needed

    18. To dos Increase income Re-prioritise spending to increase development, operations and maintenance Increase engineering capacity Harness private sector to break the back of development and upgrading needs, and assist with training

    19. Increase income, address losses, Correct tariffs (many municipalities selling way below cost) Enforce developer contributions Set up systems to determine who to be billed to increase income Chase debtors only about 20% of outstanding debt relates to indigents Collect money from other consumers to cross subsidise indigents Automatically debit public sector departments and employees Repair water and electricity networks to reduce losses Consider metering technologies

    20. Innovate and invest in maintenance Look at new technologies and life cycle costing for new projects and include maintenance budgeting as a condition of all future developments Make equitable share conditional and ring fence maintenance funds Need to calculate maintenance budget from zero base to determine actual need 6% increase per annum has eroded effectiveness because Staffing costs have increased beyond 6% Operating costs have increase beyond 6% leaving little for spares and materials

    21. Funding for turnaround Need to reprioritise municipal spending, reducing expenditure on non-core activities Need specific grant to restore non-income generating infrastructure Need loans to restore income earning infrastructure, as savings from reduced losses will soon repay loans

    22. Capacity - rebuild not restructure Capacity levels at an all time low Rebuild structures and develop meaningful organograms Change terms and conditions to retain S57 staff unless inadequate performance, rather than terminate in the absence of performance reviews Stop job hopping

    23. Professionalise Develop competence model Appoint professional, registered, senior officials with sound track record (MM, CFO, Chief Engineer) Review selection criteria guidelines from Profession of Town Clerks Act (Act 75 of 1988) Municipal Accountants Profession Act (Act 21 of 1988) Engineering Profession Act (Act 46 of 2000) Professional bodies to assist with interviews and selection

    24. Develop technical team Increase spend on technical staff usually way below 32% - reduce staffing levels in non-core activities if necessary Train engineering staff, with external mentorship if necessary Implement career and succession planning Involve students, graduates, inadequately trained in-house staff Train and fund more artisans Mandatory infrastructure asset management system for all municipalities Train students/graduates and set up dedicated team to keep info up to date in order to adequately budget for and manage infrastructure Implement real-time complaints log, repair process, reporting and costing for maintenance activities

    25. Rebuild collapsing structures

    27. Successes of support to date Technical job description programme developed

    28. Engineering students graduate as a result of experiential opportunities

    29. External delivery mechanisms Partnership with the private sector PPP (Public private partnerships) PPC (Public private cooperation) Use communities a lot more for maintenance and increase job creation Franchising Short term support and training from private sector

    30. Second young staff to consultants to be trained Private sector to second experienced municipal staff to local government to rebuild capacity, offer structures and systems, and on-the-job training, or Outsource rebuilding of municipal structures to consulting firms (S78 type of approach over say a 5 year period) condition that senior engineers with municipal experience must be used to manage the rebuilding process Work with the MM and be given authority to make the changes

    31. An Engineering Corps: Set up an engineering corps with experienced engineers to direct and attend to many strategic and planning issues (suggested by Professor Steven Kelman of Harvard, when the capacity problems were outlined in a meeting with National Treasury) Panel of consultants: Appoint a panel of experienced consultants for specialist work that municipalities can harness without going to tender (Clause 32 of the MFMA) Develop standards and scopes: Use pool to assist municipalities with tenders and scopes of work

    32. Second engineering staff and apprentices to contractors to be trained Harness contractors to train SMMEs and communities as part of each major contract so that they can be used for on-going maintenance thereafter Adopt-a-town - private sector contracts to adopt-a-town in toto to: Address backlogs Refurbish and rehabilitate Put operating and maintenance systems and processes in place Address losses, increase income etc Build capacity in all departments (technical, financial, HR etc) Use powerful CEO type of person who has run large businesses in the past to set up

    33. It has been suggested that O&M could largely be outsourced, but that service providers should be franchisees, set up and trained by recognised franchisors, to give municipalities the peace of mind that there is quality control and franchisees have access to expertise in case of challenges which arise beyond their level of expertise

    34. Partnerships Both parties take risk and can make profit Private sector take over municipal function Challenges Many clauses in MFMA which must be addressed MM being accountable officer, controls / constrains the partnership and limits flexibility and efficiency of the private company Need strong technical control Need strong transaction advisor Need strong project officer Need independent company to monitor and quality control

    36. Numbers and Needs in Local Government Contact details: Allyson Lawless allyson@ally.co.za SAICE (to purchase book) Angelene Aylward 011-805 5947 aaylward@saice.org.za

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