Capital Program 2022/23 Delivery Status

Amelia Lorentson3:37

Thank you, Councillor Wegener. We'll now move on to number reports for noting by the committee. 6.1, capital program 2022-23, delivery status. And a welcome to the desk. I'd like to.

Yeah. No worries, so I'll just provide a summary on the report to start off with. So the status update of the capital works program as at the 30th of June 2023 reports on our spend of the 22-23 financial year budget for the capital works program, which was $54.1 million. $49.8 million of that was in direct control of the infrastructure services team and the remaining $4.3 million consists of different ICT projects and fleet management. As at the 30th of June 2023, we had expended 79% of that budget. The road reseal program has expended $6.2 million of the $6.8 million budget for the financial year also. The design services team continued. To support 56 different projects and their own design services projects for implementation with a design and construction value of approximately $16.7 million. And the planning team supporting key master plan initiatives with an estimated future project investment value of $15 million plus. On top of that I would just like to clarify an inconsistency that has been noted within the report. So on the front page point four of executive summary the road reseal budget states six point eight million which is correct but on page three roughly halfway down the page it states a five point seven million dollar budget.

So that would be the subject of a Council briefing on Thursday to give the Council a lot more information about our current resourcing model. Some of the challenges we have is that as an example which would be subject to a full briefing on Thursday is that our resourcing model runs at about 2.7% of the capital works program with industry standards about five. So we're actually not and when we look at the forecast of the program moving forward particularly with waste projects coming on board but we're more than likely under-resourced. So and if you look at the extent of delivery with our resources, we're actually hitting well above the mark. Our ratepayers are actually getting very very good value in terms of the programs we're delivering with available resources. So that's the first area. The other one is about attracting suitable talent that actually is up to the challenges of the projects that we're up to because increasingly these projects which are retrofitting into existing areas of Noosa, whether it's Noosa River foreshore infrastructure or Noosa Junction streetscape, are really complex. Even if we're in Brisbane or Sydney these are very very complex projects and we and need to ensure that we've got the right talent to actually lead those. We've got two current critical vacancies within infrastructure planning design and delivery which is the design coordinator role and also transport and traffic coordination so which leads such things as a parking the Transport Strategy so we need to make sure that we've recruited a key talent in those roles to actually confidently lead the programs.