2014-06-17 Infrastructure and Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   17 JUNE 2014




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INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                         17 JUNE 2014

  STRATEGIC POLICY — PUBLIC TRANSPORT LEVY

  e   Attracting State and Commonwealth Government interest and investment in major public transport
      projects, with a potential funding contribution commitment from Council.

  GUIDING PRINCIPLES

  All revenue collected from the Public Transport Levy will be allocated to infrastructure and service
  improvement projects within the Sunshine Coast Regional Council area in line with the Five Year
  Program;
  All revenue collected will be strictly accounted for separately to ensure that established guidelines
  governing collection and specific qualifying projects and outcomes are followed. Any subsidy, grant or
  revenue generated by the application of this funding will also be included in the accounting of the Levy;
  A five year program of infrastructure and service improvements will be developed, describing the project,
  its cost, associated community benefits attaching and a demonstration that it complies with the
  governing guidelines. This program will be reviewed annually as part of the Budget process.

  Activities for which revenue from the levy can be used include:
  «   Supporting Department of Transport and Main Roads Passenger Transport Division and TransLink
      public transport services through improvements to kerbside infrastructure and public transport
      interchanges infrastructure;
  e   Entering into partnerships with TransLink to bring forward service improvements, trial possible
      services or provide services in areas not planned to be covered by funding;
  e   Provision of flexible Public Transport services to meet community needs;
  e   Entering into partnerships with Department of Transport and Main Roads Passenger Transport
      Division to fund public transport services outside the TransLink contract area;
  e   Investing in works that have a genuine multi modal outcome, with significant benefit/s to public
      transport capability, including bus and transit priority measures on Council roads and green links to
      provide penetration through developed areas;
  e   Strategies and actions to improve public transport for specific events;
  e   Take advantage of other public transport benefited activities by supporting issues such as roll out of
      real time information, education material, etc;
  e   Advancing beneficial investigations to bring forward beneficial public transport outcomes on the
      Sunshine Coast;
  e   Generally, investments in public transport operational or capital programs to improve public transport
      and increases patronage on the Sunshine Coast.

  Activities for which revenue from the levy cannot be used include:
  e   Funding should not be directed towards maintenance costs for public transport infrastructure;
  e   Funding should not be directed towards employing long term resources to specifically plan and
      develop projects to be implemented through the Public Transport Levy revenue;
  e   Funding should not be applied to initiatives that could be identified as funding ‘business as usual’
      activities by TransLink and the Department of Transport and Main Roads Passenger Transport
      Division which would be normally required if the Levy was not in place. This also includes:
      > the matching of new services, or the improvement of existing services, with known development
         or specific milestones;
      > the ability to procure improvement through other mechanisms; and
      > the improvement is of a minor change or an operationally necessary matter.
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