The reform of local government introduced a sustainability and reporting process for all Queensland councils, incorporating an emphasis on sustainable communities and councils.

This will assist in developing a consistent approach to assess financial sustainability of each council and identifying areas where additional support may be needed.

The following documents summarise the information your council provided to ensure long-term sustainability.

• Annual return on the status of asset management
• Annual return on community engagement
• Annual return on governance
• Annual return on financial management (sustainability)

Asset Management Advancement Program 2011 2012

Current Status

As a result of the amount of work to be undertaken in developing asset management plans for all asset classes, the existing Asset Management Advancement Program (A-MAP) timeframe of 31 December 2010 has been extended to September 2011. It is expected that whole of life costing, community planning processes and asset management planning will be introduced into council budgeting processes by December 2011.

The existence of asset management plans for key assets is a necessary predecessor to local governments having a complete long-term financial forecast that supports planning and decision making processes.

View the Asset management advancement program 2011-12 ( 124 KB).

Background

The Commonwealth Government previously established a target to have all infrastructure asset classes managed by local governments in Australia covered by asset management plans by December 2010. To support this, the Department of Local Government and Planning established the A-MAP 2009–10, a milestone-based statewide program.

In November 2009, the Queensland Government in conjunction with the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) lodged a formal submission with the Commonwealth Government seeking funding from the Local Government Reform Fund .The funding proposal was to improve the capability of Queensland’s local governments to manage their assets to provide better outcomes for local communities through management of assets and financial planning processes and anticipating infrastructure needs.

The Commonwealth Government has agreed to provide financial assistance of to support the development of core asset management plans for the key infrastructure assets managed by 61 Queensland local governments, and to further assist the Indigenous local governments to improve their asset management capacity.

Financial management (sustainability) guideline 2011

Support for the development of local government ten year financial models, including long-term sustainability strategies as well as indicators and measures for the assessment of ongoing local government sustainability. This is outlined in the Financial management (sustainability) guideline 2011 ( 239 KB).