Long Term Community Plan 2012-2022 - Hurunui District Council

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In October 2011, another 60 lot subdivision application was
granted on the Western side of Amberley.
ENC will continue to play a role assisting new businesses
establish in the district. Part of this role is acting as an interface
for businesses with us to ensure regulatory processes are work
effectively.
In preparation of this Long Term Plan we commissioned
PricewaterhouseCoopers to review our Development
Contributions policy. As a result, a number of minor amendments
were agreed to ensure we will collect the correct amount of
money from developers to cover the costs of growth (refer to
the Development Contributions section of this Plan).
Deliver Better, Smarter, Public Services
We have a High Performance Organisation culture. A range of
work aimed at improving customer services and achieving cost
savings and value for money is undertaken each year.
We competitively tender a significant amount of its work.
Last year we saved $200,000 with our three year public toilet
cleaning contracts. Grass moving and street cleaning tendering
also resulted in savings. In our largest contract area, road
maintenance, last year Downers won this work, tendering a
three year price of $11,595,216. This was $3,707,704 under
our engineer’s estimate based on historic rates, and $2,113,444
lower than the next lowest tendered price. Savings are reinvested
into the roading network.
We are involved in and will continue to look for opportunities
in Shared Services arrangements in order to deliver our
services and to help get value for money (refer Shared Services
references throughout this Plan). See Table1: Shared Services.
ENC will continue to carry out regular research with local
businesses to identify gaps, opportunities and track business
issues and trends.
Invest in Productive Infrastructure
First-class infrastructure is an important enabler of higher
productivity and economic growth. In this Long Term Plan
we are investing in owning and maintaining a high standard
of infrastructure that meets both our community’s economic,
social, cultural and environmental needs, and the government’s
legislative requirements.
Importantly, this Plan makes the significant funding provision
necessary for Hurunui to be able to meet government’s Drinking
Water Standards. The Plan provides for more public toilets;
more cemetery land; new stormwater infrastructure; more
parks and reserves infrastructure; for library, hall and service
centre improvements; and for new emergency management and
rural fire equipment, to name just a few. It also contains initial
proposals for new sporting and medical centres.
Table 1: Shared Services
Hurunui District Council Shared Services
Arrangements as at February 2012
Collaboration Joint Procurement Shared Services
Canterbury Water Electoral Services Transwaste Kate Valley
Management Strategy
landfill
Civil Defence
Rural Fire
Flood Protection
Office accommodation
(for CRC)
Transportation
priorities
SOLGM – best practice
work
Ingenium – asset
management work
Building Accreditation
Environmental Health
District Plan work
Rate collection (for
CRC)
IT/ GIS/ Library
IT (hardware and
software)
SOLGM – industry
good work
SOLGM – staff
recruitment and
retention
Regional Purchasing
Group (electricity, fuel)
ENC
CED Co Ltd
Canterbury Museum
Insurance – Riskpool/
LAPP/ Civic
Building control work
Regional planning Road Maintenance
responses
(some sharing with
Waimakariri DC)
HDC Natural
Biodiversity (govt grant)
Environment Fund (joint
grant with Mainpower)
Community
Development (govt
grant)
Libraries (located with
local schools)
Water (Ashley
scheme extending into
Waimakariri DC area)
Water will be a key part of North Canterbury’s transformational
economic development. We continue to support the Canterbury
Water Management Strategy in this Long Term Plan. We provide
for our share of the operation of the Hurunui Waiau Zone
Committee, which is a joint committee with the Canterbury
Regional Council. The Regional Council’s Regional Water
Committee will be considering the matter of how to fund the
provision of infrastructure associated with any large water
storage options that are seen as feasible. Properly managed, bulk
water storage could result in large productivity gains in North
Canterbury. No Council funding for such a purpose has been
discussed or provided for in this Plan to date.
With the removal of the Hurunui and Waiau River moratoriums
on 1 October 2011, Meridian Energy and Ngai Tahu Property
have jointly lodged initial consent applications for a proposed
hydro and irrigation scheme to be located between the Waiau
and Hurunui Rivers. The development of the project will be
dependent on the Hurunui Waiau Regional Plan progress
in 2012 and the RMA consent process. The parties still have
significant investigations and design work to complete and
believe construction is likely to be at least 10 years away. We are
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