Projects

The City of Canada Bay was faced with the challenge of providing fit for purpose assets over the long term while remaining financially sustainable. To achieve this, Council engaged Morrison Low to work with them to assist them in this journey.

Morrison Low undertook an in depth strategic review of a government department with a large and complex portfolio of assets. The organisation’s leadership was committed to embedding a best practice approach to asset management and increasing the asset management maturity of its organisation.

Do you have an appropriate suite of management plans for your water supply activities?

Is your incident escalation level effective and is your incident review process robust?

Morrison Low was asked to investigate how Council found itself in the situation of having to close the Waikanae Library after testing returned levels of toxigenic and allergenic mould within the building, and what could they do to avoid something similar happening in the future.

Are you relieved that the 2018-2028 Long Term Plan process is over? Did the process go well, were there clear timeframes and deliverables or was it more ad hoc?

Balranald Shire Council was assessed by NSW Treasury Corporation as not financially sustainable and Council had been issued with a Performance Improvement Order to address its financial position.

The Northland Transportation Alliance is a joint initiative of the New Zealand Transport Agency, Northland Regional Council, Far North, Kaipara and Whangarei District Councils.

Armidale Regional Council recently needed to review the Council’s Financial Policy and Strategy for the years 2017/2021 and also their Long Term Financial Plan. Their objective was to review Council’s long term sustainability given the range of challenges and opportunities following the recent merger.

The infrastructure backlog in New South Wales has gained a lot of attention in recent months. Both the size of the backlog and the discrepancies in determining the size have been raising concerns. The Division for Local Government (NSW) estimates the infrastructure backlog for local government as $7.4 billion (at 30 June 2012) and the local government total nationally has previously been estimated at over $14 billion. Having no consistent definition of ‘the backlog’, nor methodology to calculate it and, in some cases, a lack of data to support the calculations makes relying on a single number difficult. Whatever the true number is, it is still significant.

Council needed commercial analysis of a range of business opportunities associated with the development of the Shell Cove Marina, culminating in a number of recommendations for Council. Morrison Low developed governance, capital and returns matrix models for comparative evaluation.