2022-11-08 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                            8 NOVEMBER 2022


Summary

The Infrastructure Services Department is continuing to address staffing shortages with
recruitment underway for the Communication and Community Officer and Graduate Engineer
roles.


The 22/23 capital works program commitments total $20.9m. Large volumes of planning, design
and delivery activities continue to be undertaken in support of the capital works program which
includes unprecedented amounts of grant funding and commencement of disaster recovery.

Previous Council Consideration
Nil.

Finance

The year-to-date capital delivery expenditure to 30th September 2022 is $12.5m or 22% of the
capital program total, which is the Council’s largest first quarter spend to date. Figures 3 and 4
below demonstrate the year-to-date budget, actual expenditure and percentage of program
delivered including commitments, broken down for Capital and Other Capital. Other Capital
includes Asset Management, Information Communication and Technology, Fleet, and the
Planning Scheme expansion.

 CWP Baseline BR1
                                   $50,696,024             $6,417,346             $57,113,370
 Budget 22/23
                                                      Other Capital
                                 Capital                                   Total Capital Works
                                                       (ICT, Fleet)

 Budget Year to Date               $13,584,346               $850,753             $14,435,099

 Actuals Year to Date              $11,831,653               $727,021             $12,558,674

 *Remaining
 Commitments/contract              $19,666,807             $1,246,595             $20,913,402
 values

Figure 3 – Capital Finance data as at 30 September 2022




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