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Councillor Martin has submitted the following Notice of Motion -
"Council has been made acutely aware on numerous occasions (most recently in the pre-budget (2001/2002) discussions, that it is failing to protect, maintain and improve its transport, road, footpath and drainage infrastructure at an appropriate and adequate level.
This rapidly declining situation is borne out in comparisons of recommended maintenance and repair schedules and recognised standards of financial input into asset maintenance. While it is sometimes easy to ignore recommended ratios and theoretical schedules, we are no longer in a position to ignore the hard, day to day, practical evidence that not only are Council's assets declining alarmingly but that the decline, if not arrested immediately will become exponentially worse.
There is growing and alarming evidence that both Council's ability and willingness to adequately resource its Works Program is leading to -
· Increased community dissatisfaction with the level of basic services.
· A continuation of sub standard facilities and infrastructure in many parts of the City which inhibits our tourist potential.
· A lack of improvement in areas that despite waiting decades for improvement, have no prospect, on current projections of being addressed for decades to come.
· Increasingly costly and worrying insurance claims related to pavement surfacing or the lack of it.
· The continual decline in the people friendliness of a large number of suburban centres.
At this meeting, information will be tabled that demonstrates unequivocally that Council's expenditure in the Works area has been declining alarmingly against almost any standard.
The City can simply no longer afford to watch and tacitly support this decimation of its Works budgets, decline in level of service and stand by while much of our infrastructure slowly, and in some cases, rapidly deteriorates to a point where a massive re-prioritising will become inevitable.
Accordingly I move that -
1 In the context of the pre-budget discussions currently underway in relation to the 2002/2003 budget, the Works Division be quarantined from any net budget cuts.
2 The General Manager bring forward an urgent report by the end of April outlining how funding to the Works Division can be incrementally restored to achieve parity with its position of 7-8 years ago.
3 The General Manager report urgently to Council, again by the end of April, as to which areas funding has been diverted to from the Works Division."
102 MOVED Councillor Martin seconded Councillor Griffiths that -
1 In relation to the 2002/2003 budget, the Works Division be quarantined from any net budget cuts.
2 The General Manager bring forward an urgent report by the end of April outlining how funding to the Works Division will be incrementally restored to achieve parity with its position of 7-8 years ago.
3 The General Manager report urgently to Council, again by the end of April, as to which areas of Council's expenditure have risen disproportionately to the mean of Council's expenditure.
An AMENDMENT was MOVED by Councillor Hunt seconded Councillor Jonovski that Council -
1 Continue to scrutinise expenditure in all areas.
2 Continue to monitor expenditure against its Corporate Plan.
3 Adjust its Corporate Plan as required.
4 Manage community expectations with respect to the services provided.
5 Educate the community on the range of services provided to Council.
The AMENDMENT on being PUT to the VOTE was LOST. The MOTION was PUT and CARRIED.
Authorised Cr Kerrie Christian - August 14 2002
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