Broadsound Shire -Review of Unsealed Road Management System
New staff had arrived. Training and system development was completed.
New staff had arrived. Training and system development was completed.
Working with council to review related infrastructure expenditures and reporting to Councils Works and Plant Committee. We also implemented the use of the Plant Utilisation funtions for Plant Reporting in the Practical Accounting System this month. This is a very simply to do, yet with powerful results.
We continued the next series of presentations on the service delivery model. In this presentation to council we covered the budget model based on service levels and displayed the cost impacts. Also we displayed the new upgrading policy to be used to determine when a unsealed road could be considered for sealing.
Presented to Regional Councilor on the unsealed road delivery model process currently been used and refined. We covered the following items: 1. Road Network 2. Current Service Levels for Unsealed Roads 3. Delivery Model Process 4. Budget tools used to model the Delivery Approach
Implement MMS application at another region of this council. Current application has been in use at the old Calliope Shire for 5 years.
Spent 3 days with Boonah Shire in March. We competed a review of current practices of the management of the unsealed road network. Ranging from operational, services level determination, budgetting and reporting. Also we reviewed the asset management processes, especically the asset register progress.
We have just finished a presentation to the council on the services delivery for unsealed roads network. (by reviewing the last five years of works order data) The project goals were: 1. Determine the services that Council currently provide to its customers. 2. To review procedures and processes to assist with providing services in a [...]
In the coming week I will be visiting Nananago to help them start implementing some of our practical ideas of managing unsealed roads. I will keep you informed on how it all goes. Update: Site visit has been completed. We completed the following; 1. Condition Monitoring Training 2. Review Maintenance Expenditure History to Assist with [...]
In Janurary we started with the Maroochy Shire Council implementing our unique maintenance manegement system (see outline). Things are moving along well. We are looking at completing our first presentation to the Council by the end of May.
Initial implementation of system and procedures is complete. This has been the quickest implementation I have ever completed. Mainly due to the fact that their supervisors actually asked me to come and help. They were very keen to get things working better, which made it really easy to complete implementation. Thank-you to Graeme and John [...]