Client:
Leichhardt Municipal Council
Location:
Sydney
Leichhardt Council identified a shortfall in funding for the renewal and maintenance of existing infrastructure. Before seeking a Special Rate Variation the Council embarked on an ambitious, wide ranging and ultimately very successful service review to identify opportunities to reduce costs and increase revenue.
Client:
Coffs Harbour City Council
Location:
NSW
Innovation in local government takes many forms and has many different drivers but, above all, it takes action. Coffs Harbour has just finished a process through which it has commercialised its works unit, CityWorks, to establish CityWorks as Business Unit equipped, capable and able to deliver large scale physical works projects for private clients.
Client:
IPWEA Conference Presentation
Location:
IPWEA Conference
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.
Client:
Kāpiti Coast District Council
Location:
Wellington
In response to growing debate about the future of local government in the Wellington region, Kāpiti Coast District Council commissioned Morrison Low to undertake a high level investigation of the financial implications of the formation of a Unitary Council for the Kāpiti Coast.
Client:
WasteMINZ
Location:
New Zealand and Australia
An article written by Ewen Skinner and Sue Hamilton regarding the similarities and differences between New Zealand and Australian councils with the procurement of waste collection and disposal services.
Client:
Metropolitan, regional and rural councils
Location:
New South Wales
Throughout 2015 and the first part of 2016 Morrison Low has supported over 50 NSW councils in responding to the government’s Fit for the Future reform program.
Our work over this time has covered virtually every area of the process but in particular focused on providing information and support to councils so that they could answer two key aspects of the process councils were required to respond on
Client:
Auckland Council's Parks Sports and Recreation Department (now known as the Community Services and Facility Units)
Location:
Auckland
Auckland Council's Parks Sports and Recreation Department (now known as the Community Services and Facility Units) commissioned Morrison Low to assist with identifying significant savings in the proposed ten year renewal budgets for the regional and local sports parks activities, as part of the 2015 Long Term Plan process.
Client:
Thames-Coromandel District Council
Location:
Thames-Coromandel
Morrison Low was commissioned by Thames Coromandel District Council for a suite of strategic asset management projects in preparation for the 2015 Long Term Plan. Each project was tailored to match the manager’s specific needs including capability, timeframes and available internal resourcing.