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Figure 3: Parks and playgrounds Operating Costs & Forecast

Significant increase in operational and maintenance in 2021 was due to the large volume of activities
required during the early stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic.



4.5    Asset Renewals
The purpose of developing a renewal plan is to identify assets that need to be replaced to maintain
the current level of service. Asset failure due to lack of renewal will affect the capacity to deliver
future renewals of parks and playgrounds and subsequently the service these assets provide to the
Noosa Community.

Parks and playgrounds asset renewals are condition based. Condition assessments provide staff
the ability to develop capital renewal programs. The ongoing asset management maturity relies
heavily on the continued development of the condition assessments and subsequent implementation
of maintenance and renewal plans.

Renewal expenditure is work which does not increase the parks and playgrounds design capacity
but restores, rehabilitates, replaces or renews an existing asset to its original service capacity.
Improved condition assessment data capture is currently being developed to include asset renewal
considerations based on physical conditions and estimates of remaining useful life of assets to guide
and improve renewal programs. Renewal plans are developed to maintain levels of service to ensure
assets achieve their optimal useful life before they reach the asset condition range of 5. Staff
continue to work through the various asset classes to develop renewal programs for the specific
asset classes.

As previously stated - In the absence of physical condition data, an age-based approach to identify
when Council’s parks and playgrounds will reach their useful life has been developed to determine
an overall renewal plan. Priority is required across all the assets classes that have not had physical
condition assessments to develop a suite of renewal programs.

The graph below depicts the past and planned renewals by capital program including the next 10
years. There are ongoing renewals across pathways across the span of the 10 years. It is expected

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