Infrastructure Strategies Forum, March 2017, Wellington Presented by Ross Waugh. Co-presenter - Ashley Harper, Timaru District Council, was unable to attend due to weather conditions.

1. Presented by: Ashley Harper – Timaru District Council
Ross Waugh – Waugh Infrastructure

2. Regional Collaboration
 Mayoral Forum
 Chief Executives Forum
o Canterbury Engineering Managers Group
o Canterbury Finance Managers
o Canterbury Policy Managers Forum
o Canterbury Planning Managers

3.  Engineering Managers Group
o Infrastructure Strategy
o Section 17a Reviews
o Preparation of Draft Submissions for Chief Executive
Group
o Shared Services/Collaboration
o Water NZ Benchmarking
o Canterbury Stormwater Forum Overview
o Climate Change
o Drinking Water Quality

4.  Infrastructure Strategy 2015
o Waugh Infrastructure Template: 8 Canterbury TLA’s
 Land Transport
 3 Waters
 Common Approach – very helpful
 Flood Protection excluded – Ecan role

5.  Timaru District Council Infrastructure Strategy
o Followed Template
o Shared Water Scheme?
o NZTA FAR Share
o Identification and allocation of Growth
o LoS
o Renewal
o LoS Statement

6.  Canterbury Infrastructure Strategy Template
o Good take up in Canterbury, plus some other areas
o Provided good basis for development of Strategies
o Timaru and Waimakariri adapted further
o Provided good value for money for Councils
o Further analysis of results in subsequent Canterbury
IS Review
o October 2016 update analysis in preparation for 2017
work, will incorporate this Forum’s perspectives

7.  Canterbury Infrastructure Strategy Review
o Review initiated by Canterbury CE forum
o A range of assumptions were found across
Canterbury, these were highlighted
o Issues and key strategies were recapped
o Review identified peaks in planned infrastructure
procurement
o Canterbury IS Review provides information to feed
into the individual council IS updates

8. Office of Auditor General Matters Arising Report
 Infrastructure Strategy Expectation
 Visionary
 Telling the story where are, where expecting to be,
how intending to get there
 Realistic
 Relevant assumptions and disclosures
 Relational
 Right Debate
 Credible links to Financial Strategies, demographic
change, other influences

9. Canterbury Template Review – October 2016
 Typical Engineers template
 Achieved required objective – 2015 LTP support
 Did not fully cover OAG Visionary, Realistic, Relational
statements
 IS template read as summary of AMP’s
 Template requires updating:
o Strategic Thinking, Telling Story
o Examination of issues, sustainability of services
o Interactive, with improved linkages
o Looking beyond 30 year minimum

10. Canterbury Template Review – Next steps / other issues
Next Steps
 Update template following this Forum
 Include Service Level scenario planning, analysis
 Include long term sustainability analysis in conjunction
with Financial Strategy (s101A/s101B)
Other Issues
 ISO 55000 SAMP linkages
 NZ growth and demographic change dynamics are
‘interesting’ and may require change to lead
infrastructure development
 30 years+ indicative rather than absolute