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