Annual Plan 2019/20 OUR PLANS KEY PROJECTS for the year ahead 2019-2020 Here are some of the key projects planned by Council over the next year. This is only a selection and the funding shown only applies to the 2019/20 year. Please see the following page and the Annual Plan supporting information for more detail. $2.3M ROADING Road pavement reconstructions $2.4M $15M WATER SUPPLY WATER SUPPLY Te Moana water supply – reticulation Downlands water supply renewal and treatment upgrade upgrade multi year $3M $2M ROADING $9.8M Renewal of chip seal and asphalt CEMETERIES Timaru Cemetery replacement WATER SUPPLY Timaru – Pareora pipeline renewal multi year $3.4M SEWER Ongoing replacement of pipes and other sewer services $1M Damon Odey TEMUKA POOL Mayor Bede Carran $0.2M Upgrade Koromatua Chief Executive PARKS Kaiwhakahaere Shared urban tracks and esplanades $0.4M “ Moving our district DISTRICT LIBRARIES Books and resources, including e – reader materials forward at a pace we can afford is a $1.9M TIMARU LIBRARY balancing act.” Re-roofing $5.6M 2019/20 will be THEATRE ROYAL /HERITAGE $4.4M another busy year. FACILITY REDEVELOPMENT STORMWATER District wide upgrades and renewals We’ve got some big projects on the go – both infrastructure upgrades to our water supply, stormwater and sewer systems, $1M as well as some of our major community WASTE MINIMISATION facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Redruth landfill and Temuka Swimming Pool, and repairs to Waste Minimisation services the Aigantighe Art Gallery and the Timaru Library. All up we’ve budgeted $69M for capital projects next year. Moving our district forward at a pace we can afford is a balancing act. This year we are looking at an overall rates increase of 4.6%. This is less than the 7.5% increase forecast in the Long Term Plan. The main reasons for this include revised timing for some of the capital projects and www.timaru.govt.nz associated financing costs. OUR ANNUAL PLAN 2019/20 WHAT’S BeeN HAPPENING? There’s been plenty going on around our district over the last year. EARTHQUAKE PRONE BUILDINGS PROJECT As required by legislation, Council identified strategic routes and thoroughfares in the district in consultation with the community during October 2018. The next phase in the project is to identify potential priority Earthquake Prone Buildings. This will be done progressively over the period March 2019 – June 2020, in conjunction with building owners and key stakeholders. This is part of working towards a stronger Timaru District. ROADING Council successfully negotiated a New DISTRICT PLAN REVIEW Zealand Transport Agency 2018/21 This multi-year project is steadily progressing, with the Co-funding Agreement that resulted Strategic Directions, Open Spaces and in additional money for roading Ecosystems and Indigenous Biodiversity improvements including: chapters now drafted following n $750,000 for new footpaths, and discussion with community reference renewal of existing footpaths groups. The formal consultation on the YOUR PLAN OUR FUTURE n $100,000 for a new cycleway on proposed draft plan is scheduled for TIMARU DISTRICT PLAN REVIEW LAND USE PLAN Old North Road, Timaru (already early 2020/21. completed) n Additional road resurfacing STORMWATer SerVICES Kauri Street rain garden throughout the district. Designs for a new stormwater pump station on Hilton Highway, in Washdyke are being prepared, with the physical work to commence in 2019/20. This will help reduce flooding issues in DISTRICT LIbrARIES this area. As well as the new look Self Issue/ Self Return technology at the district’s libraries, there has been significant investment in e-resources to expand the range of material available SeWer SerVICES YOUR PLAN OUR FUTURE TIMARU DISTRICT PLAN REVIEW to residents. Through several e-platforms library users can Good progress has been made with the installationLAND of USE a PLANnew now access over 9,000 e-Book and 1,300 e-Audiobook titles, trunk sewer main in Talbot Street, Geraldine. stream more than 30,000 movies, and read New Zealand and Design for the upgrade of the industrial sewer pump station at international newspapers and magazines – and all for no cost. Aorangi Road, Timaru is underway. Here’s more about some of the big projects planned for 2019/2020 THEATre ROYAL/HerITAGE FACILITY TeMUKA POOL REDEVELOPMENT The Temuka Pool is set to get a makeover in time for its 50th season of giving residents somewhere to make a Upgrading the Theatre Royal and developing a Heritage facility in splash. The new complex, scheduled to be ready for the 2020 summer season, will include a 25m pool suitable south Stafford Street is a multi year project agreed in the 2018-28 for competition swimming, and a separate learners’ pool with a lower depth, as well as a ramp to the main pool. Long Term Plan. The redevelopment will see the Theatre brought technically up TIMARU WATer SUppLY to date, while keeping the grand and warm environment that Pareora pipeline replacement has long charmed audiences. The Heritage facility is all about Replacement of the 35km Pareora water pipeline, which supplies providing a new multi purpose facility that will be used mainly for the majority of Timaru’s drinking water is one of the largest museum exhibitions, which have outgrown the current museum infrastructure projects we’re undertaking over the next year or building. The space will also be available for the Aigantighe Art two. A total of $21M has been budgeted over the next 2 years. Gallery and touring exhibitions. Starting at the Upper Pareora Dam (which is actually in the These two developments will be run as one project, with work Mackenzie District), the pipe winds through the Pareora Gorge currently underway preparing the scope and appointing a project before reaching our reservoirs at Claremont. The water isn’t manager. Once a project plan has been developed, physical work pumped, it’s gravity fed all the way, which makes for some serious will then start on site – likely to be in late 2019/20. engineering challenges. The pipeline has served the city well since its installation in the 1930s, but now it has reached the end of its service life and all but the upper 10% of the pipeline needs to be replaced. This will ensure that Timaru can access clean, fresh water long into the future. TIMARU CeMETerY The Timaru Cemetery, established in 1864 will be nearing capacity in the next few years, and a new cemetery is required. In preparation for this, land needs to purchased, resource consents obtained, and infrastructure such as roading and drainage put in place. A total of $3.6M has been budgeted over the next 2 years starting in 2019/20. OUR ANNUAL PLAN 2019/20 CHANGES from Year 2 of Long Term Plan (LTP) 2018-2028 2019/20 is Year 2 of our LTP. Most of what was agreed in the LTP is still going ahead as planned, however there have been some timing and budget changes. PROPOSED PROPOSED 2019/2020 2019/2020 DISTRICT PLAN REVIEW RoadING This multi year project has been delayed awaiting the issue of Geraldine – Coach/Tiplady/Winchester intersection update $2M central government’s draft National Planning Standard. The flow on This new work is possible due to NZTA financial assistance and (Council portion effect is the consultation on the draft Plan will occur in 2020/21 $1M approved additional Council funding. $0.5M) instead of the end of 2019/20. New project + Project timing change SEWER SERVICES Talbot Street, Geraldine – Siphon upgrade TIMARU LIBRARY $0.65M Reroofing and associated upgrades have been delayed due to Delays due to shortage of specialist construction contractors. complexities of project, particularly the type and design of the $1.9M Project delay original roof. Project delay SEWER SERVICES Reticulation extensions to enable urban development $0.9M ART GALLERY BUILDING RENEWALS Progress is subject to negotiations with external parties. Delay due to ongoing work with consultants on the strengthening $0.6M Carry forward work required for the House Gallery. Project delay WaTER SUPPLY Te Moana water supply – reticulation renewal and treatment upgrade THEATRE RoYAL/HERITAGE FACILITY $2.4M Initial project stages are underway but physical work is now due Project is more complex than originally scoped, work will continue to start in 2019/20. $5.6M in 2019/20. Project delay Project delay TEMUKA SWIMMING PooL WaTER SUppLY Timaru Pareora – Pipeline renewal Upgrading of the Temuka pool. $1M While design work is well underway a number of complex issues $9.8M Budget increase still need to be addressed. Construction is likely to be over the next two summers. PARKS – PAREORA DAM Project delay Investigation and works to improve safety on the old dam on the $120,000 Here’s more about some of the big projects planned for 2019/2020 Pareora river. WaTER SUppLY New project ($500,000 over 4 years) + Temuka water storage and pumps Design work is underway and site has been purchased, project will $1.2M PARKS be completed in 2019/20. $120,000 Increasing service levels for district parks. (increase ongoing) Project delay Budget increase WaTER SUppLY HIGHFIELD GOLF COURSE Downlands water supply upgrade Preparation of Fit for Future Use plan. $75,000 The project has become more complex and requires further $15M approvals over and above the current project scope. New project + Project delay YOUR FEEDBACK Please While we’re not formally consulting on the Annual Plan because send any there are no significant changes to the Long Term Plan, we’re feedback by always keen to hear what you think. 5 June 2019 ? Are there any big issues you think Council should be addressing? ? Are there any projects you believe Council should be considering? ? Are there things you think Council should be doing more, or less of? Let us know and we can consider these in the next round of planning for the Long Term Plan 2021-31.