City of Stirling Transport Asset Managment Plan

5.2.2 Standards and specifications Currently the City has documented the service standards for road and footpath assets in terms of defects which are required to be rectified, their intervention levels and response times for these rectification works. All maintenance works are carried out in accordance with legislative requirements and various codes of practice and standards, including Australian Standard 1428 – Design for access and mobility 2010. 5.2.3 Summary of future maintenance expenditures As previously mentioned, routine maintenance refers to works undertaken to address minor defects such as pothole patching and grinding trip hazards in pathways. These treatment works are undertaken to keep the City’s transport assets in a safe and operational condition, but not necessarily to improve the overall condition of these assets.

It should be noted that when undertaking lifecycle modelling, these costs are taken into consideration by assuming that, each year, a percentage of these distresses (such as crack sealing) will be repaired as part of the City’s routine maintenance. If these assets are left to deteriorate (ie, sufficient capital expenditure is not allocated), then the number of distresses being fixed under routine maintenance will increase and hence the routine maintenance expenditure required will also increase. Equally, if the condition of these assets improves then the routine maintenance expenditure required will decrease. The City’s proposed planned and reactive maintenance expenditure is shown in Table 5.6. It should be noted that these financial allocations are based on the current level of capital funding being allocated for the future and that all costs are shown in current dollar values (adjusted for inflation). This maintenance expenditure does not take into account new or gifted assets.

Maintenance Activity

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

Roads

$1.89M $1.93M $1.96M $2.03M

Footpaths

$1.29M $1.32M $1.35M $1.38M

Car parks

$0.26M $0.265M $0.272M $0.279M

Total

$3.44M $3.51M $3.60M $3.69M

Table 5.6 Planned maintenance expenditure

Maintenance is funded from the City’s operating budget and grants where available.

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