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23. 10. 96
CITY SERVICES COMMITTEE
2 AND 9 OCTOBER 1996
A special meeting of the City Services Committee was held at 12 noon
on Wednesday 2 October and (having been adjourned) reconvened at 12 noon
on Wednesday 9 October 1996
PRESENT: Councillor Denis O'Rourke (Chairman), The Mayor, Ms Vicki Buck (2 October), Councillors David Buist, David Close, Graham Condon (2 October), Ian Howell (2 October), and Ron Wright.
APOLOGIES: Apologies for absence were received and accepted from The Mayor, Vicki Buck (9 October),
Councillors Carole Anderton, Graham Condon (9 October), Carole Evans, Gordon Freeman and Ian Howell (9 October).
Councillor Ron Wright retired at 12 30 pm on 2 October 1996 following consideration of the Parking Operations Unit's report and at 2.05 pm on 9 October 1996.
The Committee reports that:
PART B - ITEMS DEALT WITH BY THE COMMITTEE AND
REPORTED FOR INFORMATION ONLY
1. CORPORATE PLAN MONITORING REPORTS 1995/96
The Committee considered the monitoring reports for the following units for the year ended 30 June 1996:
(a) PARKING OPERATIONS UNIT
The Parking Operations Manager was asked to report back to the Committee with revised performance indicators for the enforcement section and giving details of the budgetary requirements for additional metered parking.
(b) WASTE MANAGEMENT UNIT
The Waste Manager advised that substantial additional capital funding would be required after the year 2000, estimated at approximately $30M spread over a period of ten years. It was agreed there was some scope for increased trade waste charges, and the Waste Manager agreed to undertake a study of this issue with a view to the possible introduction of a full cost recovery charging regime.
The Waste Manager was also asked to report back on the reported presence of pockets of gas at the Bexley landfill, and the possibility of instituting a levy for private landfills.
The Committee deleted performance indicators 1-9 inclusive under the heading "Business" in clause 7 of the Waste Management report.
A number of typographical errors in the appendices were also corrected.
(The meeting adjourned at 2.30 pm on 2 October 1996).
(c) WATER SERVICES UNIT
Concern was expressed at the use of an in house consultant without testing the market for comparative rates. Staff undertook to select a package of jobs and get them competitively tested. No substantial alterations were made to this report.
(d) LAND DRAINAGE UNIT
Councillors congratulated staff on the success of the Waterway Enhancement programme. No substantial alterations were made to this report.
(e) CITY STREETS UNIT
Roading Section of Corporate Plan
No substantial alterations were made to this report. Whilst discussing the statement of service performance members requested further or updated information on the following.
Designated roads - unformed. A full report detailing the proposed upgrading of public walkways such as Rapaki Track, Huntsbury Road or Worsley Road was requested.
Performance Measures - A report on the new process for measuring outcomes was requested.
Grass Berms - investigation of an alternative to wooden batten strips.
2. BUDGET PLANNING
The Committee agreed that the following indicators be included in the 1997/98 Annual Plan text.
WATER SERVICES UNIT
Number of water stops distributed.
Length of waterways established.
Number and length of drains converted to enhanced waterways.
CITY STREETS UNIT
Number of fatalities.
Injury and non injury reported accidents.
Number of accidents in Christchurch in relation to other New Zealand centres.
The meeting concluded at 3.08 pm on 9 October 1996.
CONSIDERED THIS 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER 1996
MAYOR