FNQROC Regional Asset Management Strategy

1. FNQROC Regional Asset Management Strategy Darlene Irvine, Executive Officer Gerard Read, Regional Infrastructure Coordinator

2. 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

3. 2010 / 2011 BOARD (Mayors & CEO’s) Executive Officer Admin Support Regional Development Manual Local Laws Regional Procurement Coordinator Reg. Planning Officer. Reg. Infrastructure Coord. Regional Nat. Asset Coord. FNQ Regional Road Group Procurement FNQ Planners Group FNQROC Natural Asset Management FNQ Regional Asset Management Group FNQROC Sustainability Sub group – Vertebrate Level of Service Subgroups Community Planning Sub group – Landscape resilience Water Sensitive Urban Design Guideline

4. What is the total value of our Assets? • What is the remaining life of these assets, and • What position are we going to be in, in 10, 15 and 20 years? Three significant questions

5. Why is it important for our region to work collaboratively? 1. Environmental Impacts Why Consolidate the total value of our Assets? 2. Social Impacts, and 3. Economic impacts

6. These items do not have local government boundaries

7. Ascertaining the lifecycle of assets and determining our risk portfolio across these assets for the next 5, 10, 20 years

8. 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

9. Be consistent with a whole of government approach Strategy Objectives • Develop a Long Term Approach to Service Planning and Deliver at Council and Regional Level

10. Linking policies and strategies with a Long Term Program • Develop Infrastructure Service Delivery Plans and Long Term Financial Plans • Develop Long Term Asset Management Plans Including Risk Management Plans Key Findings

11. Build Asset Management Capacity within each Council

12. Population trends and environmental performance How should we plan and fund asset renewal in communities with declining population? Are there environmental, social and cultural limitations to the trend of increased population density in cities and regional centres? 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 What role do rural communities play in the social and cultural well being of a country? How can we identify national or regional benefits provided by rural communities and fund these benefits at the national or regional level? Central governments support ‘growth’, should they also support ‘decline’? Strategic Issues

13. Transport Trends • Cost Shifting and Funding • Responsibility of Custodianship • Increasing Community Expectation • Skills Shortages • Changing Regulation • National Trends

14. Strategy Complete – What now? What services do we currently deliver to the community through our infrastructure? At what cost?

15. Regional Asset Management Strategy • Completed early 2009 • Updated late 2009 / early 2010 to reflect new Qld LG Act • Credibility for strategy • Update included implementation plan • Legislative compliance • Robust AM practice

16. 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

17. 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

18. Strategy Done! Now what are we going to do ….. • Develop Levels of Service • Transport (Roads & Footpaths) • Parks & Sporting Facilities • Buildings • Regionally consistent • Potential regional asset management plans

19. 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!

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Parks Levels of Service • Classes • Regional • District • Local • Two Parts to LoS • INVENTORY – What do we provide? • CONDITION – How well do we look after it?

24. Parks Levels of Service • CUSTOMER VALUES • Accessibility and Availability • Facilities and Infrastructure Provided • Quality and Reliability • Safety

25. Customer Value - Accessibility PARKS Customer Value - Accessibility

26. Customer Value - Facilities & Infrastructure Provided

27. Customer Value - Quality & Reliability

28. Customer Value - Safety

29. 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

30. 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. Natural Asset Management

31. 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 & park • Reserve for local govt (boat harbour) • Reserve for scenic & recreation purposes • Reserve for park • Water supply reserve • Reserve for scenic purposes • Reserve for camping & gravel purposes • Stock reserves • River improvement trust sites (pending)

32. Levels of service • Three scales – local , district & regional • Determine standard of service delivery – bare minimum to Best Management Practice • Technical LOS • Control pests, • Manage dumping of waste • Pest mapping • Fire mitigation • Unauthorised access • Reserve edge management • Rehabilitation • Manage fauna • Engage community • Monitor and assess • Ecological fire management • Restoration of connectivity/composition An asset approach

33. Three stage approach to assessment Assessment

34. Spatial analysis

35. Spatial analysis

36. Data sets

37. End product Regional natural areas/assets data set (TAB, .shp, .xls, .kmz , .dbf …etc) Products

38. End product Products

39. 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 Products

40. Thankyou Darlene Irvine Executive Officer p: 07 4044 3038 m: 0403 808 680 e: d.irvine@cairns.qld.gov.au Gerard Read Reg. Infrastructure Coordinator m: e: g.read@cairns.qld.gov.au www.fnqroc.qld.gov.au