Council Minutes - Town of Cambridge

COUNCIL MINUTES
TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER 2011
CR11.154 ROAD ASSET MANAGEMENT AND 20 YEAR PROGRAM FOR ROAD
RESURFACING
PURPOSE OF REPORT:
To review required expenditure levels and the revised 20 Year Program (2010-2029) for Road
Resurfacing as a prerequisite to preparing the Draft 2012/13 Budget.
BACKGROUND:
Council last reviewed this Road Resurfacing Program in November 2010 (Item CR10.39) 'Road
Asset Management and Twenty Year Program for Road Resurfacing' and decided that:-
“(i)
(ii)
the updated 20 Year Program (2010-2029) for Road Resurfacing be endorsed as an
asset management program;
the first year of the program be considered for funding in the 2011/12 Draft Budget”.
The 20 Year Program (2010-2029) for Road Resurfacing was first developed in 2009 and lists a
total of 144 kilometres of roads for resurfacing over a 20 year period. There is an additional 22
kilometres of roads which are not on the program at this state. It was updated in November
2011 to show:-
Roads that were resurfaced in the 2010/2011 Budget.
Roads that are funded for resurfacing in the current 2011/2012 Budget.
Roads that will be funded by Metropolitan Regional Road Grants in the 2012/13 Budget.
Roads that should be considered for applying for Metropolitan Regional Road Grants in
2013/2014.
Roads that should be considered for resurfacing as a priority in the 2012/2013 Budget.
This program for the same 2010-2029 period is now presented as a planning tool for preparing
the Draft 2012/13 Budget. The roads resurfaced in the 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12 Budgets
are retained on this program to show past trends.
An independent review of road asset condition is generally carried out every 5 years with the
next one due in 2014. This will generate a new twenty year program for the period
2015–2034.
DETAILS:
The Town manages a total of 166 kilometres of sealed roads of which 8 kilometres is dual
carriageway. In addition, the Town manages 21 kilometres of laneways (ROW's) of which 14
kilometres is sealed and the balance is programmed to be upgraded to a seal standard over the
next 10 years.
The current strategy for maintaining these roads and lanes was originally derived from the
ARRB road study carried out during 2004 and reported to Council on 24 November 2004. In
2009, Pavement Analysis Pty Ltd confirmed that the Town’s road asset management was
operating effectively and provided the first version of the 20 Year Program (2010-2029) for
Road Resurfacing. This was reported to Council in October 2009 (Item IC09.87).
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