Long Term Community Plan 2012-2022 - Hurunui District Council

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www.hurunui.govt.nz 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 38
Hurunui Community Long Term Plan 2012 - 2022 likely to have an important consenting role. The Hurunui Water Project has also lodged consent for Waitohi storage in line with the Zone Implementation Programme’s preferred option. The Long Term Plan contains further capital funding provision for on-going renewal and refreshment of our Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa complex. ENC is also focusing on government’s rural broadband delivery project (directed at schools and hospitals) to put together local business consortia to investigate higher capacity broadband services for rural businesses to create new wealth, as an adjunct to the government’s programme. We will be involved in consenting requirements for at least two new cell phone towers that are planned as part of the roll-out. Lift Education and Skills ENC will continue to provide training and coaching programmes aimed at improving local business skills and business capability. ENC is carrying out work to support the Amuri Dairy Employers Group and Dairy NZ to improve employment practices, and the recruitment and retention of employees in the Amuri area. We continue to run our Secondary Education School Achievers Awards, giving out $10,000 annually to assist young people to undertake further study. We continue to run our Youth Development Programme, aimed at helping young people develop skills – both leadership and technical. Our Library is supporting the INZONE Career Information Kiosk initiative. This is aimed at helping young people identify suitable career options. Create a Growth-Enhancing Tax System Tax legislation and practice are constantly changing and it can be a challenge within a small council to maintain the level of knowledge required to ensure compliance with the various tax acts. In November 2009 we commissioned Toovey Eaton McDonald Ltd to review our tax compliance. They were impressed with the overall level of compliance. A number of technical and relatively minor observations were made as part of the review for staff to action. 39
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