Parks And Playgrounds Asset Management Plan

Thank you. Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to today's Services & Organisation Committee Meeting, break number 23, for this Council. Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands upon which we've met, Kabi Kabi People, and pay respects to their owners. Past, present, and future. As far as attendance goes, I believe right on attendance we have the Mayor online today, late Lenny, live from- Good morning everyone, afternoon from- just got to move in a second. You've move and second can we go through everything else before we do that or do we need to do that at the very beginning of the meeting? With the Mayor online we need a resolution to acknowledge that the Mayor is online. Happy to move it. To acknowledge and accept that the Mayor is attending via Microsoft Teams. All in favour? Thank you. Guys have it. Thank you. Welcome online. Thank you. You're welcome to come online. You. Can I get a confirmation of the Minutes of the previous meeting? Moved by Councillor Wilkie, seconded by Councillor Lorentson. All in favour? That's an aye from you, Clare. Aye. Thank you. Moved by Councillor Wilkie. Lorentson. All good, we've got her. There are no presentations or deputations that I'm aware of. No, there are none. We move onto item 5, reports for consideration on committee. Item 1 is the parks and playgrounds asset management plan, but we've had a request to move to item 2 first. That is the Noosa – Gympie Waste Management Memorandum of Understanding. We'll go to item 2 first. Little page is on, and welcome Kyrone Raine to the table. Kyrone Raine would you like to give us a bit of an overview of the Memorandum of Understanding and why it's needed?

Amelia Lorentson12:42

A simple one for you Matt, why are we undertaking this review and when was the last time parks and playgrounds asset management plan was reviewed?

One question I've been asked with regard to the graphs is figure six and I think this. And I think this boils down to how I interpret it. There are three lines below that 10 million figure. Yep. And there's one green line going up which is an accumulation. It's the only element of accumulation. Correct. Each of those is year on and each of those years has been totalled to the previous year to create that green line going forward. Yes. That's alright. I didn't get it the first time and when I looked at it again I thought this is the only way that this could make any sense. The accrual. Yep. The last one is there's no mention of the LGIP in the asset management plan. How do they relate? 2.4 mentions identifying future demand forecasts which we've spoken a bit about here. And Amelia's talked about existing parks and infrastructure, so what are the parameters that will determine future needs and how these will be determined? Is it through the LGIP? Is it, 'cause that's, once assets that's have reached their end they're in the watch, is the LGIP still staying in play? Classification of parks and the like, how does the LGIP and the asset management plan come together?

I might have to defer. Adam, do you know the age when the previous one was? Previous one would be about five years. Yeah, but they're not on a five-year cycle, ideally. That's correct. So we started as I said before this is the final of eight so we started with our major asset classes such as roads and things that worked our way to this so with parks and playgrounds it's all in terms of the overall value of the asset the whole of the assets this is probably the least in terms of the value but it's probably one of the ones where there's a lot there's a high quantity of assets just they're just smaller assets and they make up you know there's I think we have well we have 2,000 assets so that's individual items but it's across to around about 250 parks so I think there's 80 playgrounds in the Shire yeah so that sort of getting back to your question about the importance of it is to bring everything together and get a good framework around it all.

Where is that captured in our asset management plan? So trees aren't considered financial assets, but however we are, we're working on it. So we've done audits in a lot of our precinct areas, so Gympie Terrace, for example, a few years ago, we ordered at all the trees and captured them all. We assigned them an asset number, and they are now in our system mapped as assets and able to be referred to and we've, so they're logged and they're managed accordingly, but they're not financial assets. We kind of have to treat them separately. And I know that we're working on it the moment as part of the urban greening program or project where we're working with some of the other staff and Council on a bit of a system there because we're going to be doing a lot of new planting throughout the urban area of Noosa and both road reserves and parks. So we're working on a system there and I'm having regular meetings about developing that. Exciting.

Amelia Lorentson23:32

But in terms of financial, there is a financial element with, natural assets when you look at their life cycles or life management. When you look at future risk, climate change, we know bushfires, water scarcity has been one of the number one climate, future climate risk. Change, and that's got financial impact on trees, when we've got thousands and of trees in the Shire. So somehow I think that's got to be captured somewhere in our financial asset management plan.

It's exactly how I read the same question that I asked. Condition five to me is it's too late. In the way this asset management thing is working, condition five is the time condition five right, now when is the time we need to plan for its replacement.

That's where our asset management plan for the future.