Infrastructure Policy Committee
Agenda
3 May 2022
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act 1993 that an Infrastructure Policy Committee meeting of ORANGE CITY COUNCIL will be held in the Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Byng Street, Orange on Tuesday, 3 May 2022.
David Waddell
Chief Executive Officer
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Infrastructure Policy Committee 3 May 2022
2.1 Minutes of the City of Orange Traffic Committee Meeting - 12 April 2022
1 Introduction
1.1 Declaration of pecuniary interests, significant non-pecuniary interests and less than significant non-pecuniary interests
The provisions of Chapter 14 of the Local Government Act, 1993 (the Act) regulate the way in which Councillors and designated staff of Council conduct themselves to ensure that there is no conflict between their private interests and their public role.
The Act prescribes that where a member of Council (or a Committee of Council) has a direct or indirect financial (pecuniary) interest in a matter to be considered at a meeting of the Council (or Committee), that interest must be disclosed as soon as practicable after the start of the meeting and the reasons given for declaring such interest.
As members are aware, the provisions of the Local Government Act restrict any member who has declared a pecuniary interest in any matter from participating in the discussion or voting on that matter, and requires that member to vacate the Chamber.
Council’s Code of Conduct provides that if members have a non-pecuniary conflict of interest, the nature of the conflict must be disclosed. The Code of Conduct also provides for a number of ways in which a member may manage non pecuniary conflicts of interest.
Recommendation It is recommended that Committee Members now disclose any conflicts of interest in matters under consideration by the Infrastructure Policy Committee at this meeting. |
RECORD NUMBER: 2022/536
AUTHOR: Ian Greenham, Director Technical Services
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Orange Traffic Committee held an electronic meeting on 8 March 2022 and the recommendation from that meeting is presented to the Infrastructure Policy Committee for adoption.
LINK TO DELIVERY/OPERATIONAL PLAN
The recommendation in this report relates to the Delivery/Operational Plan strategy “9.1 Preserve - Construct and maintain a road network meets the community’s transport and infrastructure needs”.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
Nil
POLICY AND GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS
Nil
1 That Council acknowledge the reports presented to the City of Orange Traffic Committee at its meeting held on 12 April 2022. 2 That Council determine recommendations 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 from the minutes of the City of Orange Traffic Committee meeting of 12 April 2022. 3.1 Orange Runners Club Hiney Road and Bargwanna Road 2022 Events That Council approve this event subject to a change in the Conditional Approval for the start and finish line for the Hiney Road event to be the eastern end of Hiney Road (Huntley Road) not Forest Road. 3.2 Event – Orange Show – 14 May 2022 1 That Council support the temporary reduction of the speed limit on Leeds Parade (Phillip to Margaret), Phillip Street (Leeds to Noreen) and Margaret Street (Leeds to Mirral) to 40 km/h during 14 May 2022. 2 That Council support the temporary lifting of No Stopping restrictions for 300m on the railway side of Leeds Parade between Margaret Street and Phillip Street during 14 May 2022. 3 That the costs of implementing these measures by Council staff be borne by the applicant. 3.3 Definition of Prescribed Parking Angles – William Street (between March and Dalton Streets) That Council alter the parking angle prescription in William Street as shown in Figure A, between March Street and Dalton Street. 3 That the minutes of the City of Orange Traffic Committee at its meeting held on 12 April 2022 be adopted. |
FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Consideration has been given to the recommendation’s impact on Council’s service delivery; image and reputation; political; environmental; health and safety; employees; stakeholders and project management; and no further implications or risks have been identified.
Attachments
1 City of Orange Traffic Committee Minutes, 12 April 2022
2 City of Orange Traffic Committee Agenda, 12 April 2022, D22/22664⇩
ORANGE CITY COUNCIL
MINUTES OF THE
City of Orange Traffic Committee
HELD IN Committee Room 3, Civic Centre, Byng Street, Orange
ON 12 April 2022
COMMENCING AT 9:34am
Attendance
Cr Tony Mileto (Chairperson), Sgt Adam Cornish, Chief Inspector David Harvey, Mr Kel Gardiner, Manager Development Assessments, Works Manager, Manager Engineering Services, Parking Officer, Divisional Administration Officer
1.1 Apologies and Leave of Absence
RECOMMENDATION Mr K Gardiner/Sgt A Cornish That the apology be accepted from Ms Kylie Buckenhofer for the City of Orange Traffic Committee meeting on 12 April 2022. |
1.3 Declaration of pecuniary interests, significant non-pecuniary interests and less than significant non-pecuniary interests
Nil
3 General Reports
TRIM Reference: 2022/371 |
Recommendation Sgt A Cornish/Mr K Gardiner That Council alter the parking angle prescription in William Street as shown in Figure A, between March Street and Dalton Street.
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General business
· Possibility of 5 Year Approval for Events
A discussion was held regarding events that have been given DA approval and event approval for 5 years and whether the Traffic Committee could approve something similar for a 5 year period. The Traffic Committee agreed that events need to come back to the Committee to review each year.
The Meeting Closed at 9.56AM.
RECORD NUMBER: 2022/537
AUTHOR: Ian Greenham, Director Technical Services
EXECUTIVE Summary
The purpose of this report is to update Council on construction and maintenance works which have been carried out since the last current works report to Council.
Link To Delivery/OPerational Plan
The recommendation in this report relates to the Delivery/Operational Plan strategy “9.1 Preserve - Construct and maintain a road network meets the community’s transport and infrastructure needs”.
Financial Implications
Nil
Policy and Governance Implications
Nil
That the information provided in the report on Current Works be acknowledged. |
further considerations
Consideration has been given to the recommendation’s impact on Council’s service delivery; image and reputation; political; environmental; health and safety; employees; stakeholders and project management; and no further implications or risks have been identified.
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
Road Upgrading
Forest Road at Hiney Road
Council crews commenced work on upgrading the intersection and approaches of Forest Road and Hiney Road to address safety concerns. Works will include improving intersection sight distance and general widening including extending and replacing drainage structures.
Photo: Drainage culvert widening on Forest Road just south of Hiney Road
Road Rehabilitation
Dalton and William Street Roundabout
Contractors undertook night works on behalf of Council to reconstruct the pavement at the Dalton and William Street roundabout. The existing road was removed and replaced with over 1000 tonnes of new hot mix asphalt.
It should be noted that the old pavement removed was deemed suitable for high quality fill material and has been fully incorporated onto the Forest and Hiney Road construction project mentioned earlier in the report.
Photo: Dalton and William Street roundabout - Bobcat cleaning out remains of excavated materials
Concrete and Drainage
Footpath Construction
Work was completed on new footpaths, footpath reconstructions and shared cycle paths at:
· Hill Street - Byng Street to Little Summer Street;
Work has commenced, or continued, on new footpaths and footpath reconstructions at:
· Molong Road - crossing to Northern Distributor Road;
Photo: Recently completed footpath reconstruction on Hill Street between Byng and Summer Streets
WATER SUPPLY SERVICES
The type and number of water supply service responses by maintenance staff are shown in the table below.
Category |
July 2020 – June 2021 |
March 2022 |
Water - Leak (Meter) |
327 |
26 |
Water Request - Meters Faulty (incorrect readings) |
73 |
3 |
Water - No Water Supply |
44 |
1 |
Water – Pressure |
37 |
3 |
Water Request - Replace Meter box/lid |
63 |
6 |
Water quality – Dirty |
53 |
1 |
Water - Burst Main |
85 |
6 |
Water - leak (Main, Valve, Hydrant) |
285 |
20 |
Total Water Requests |
967 |
66 |
Construction Works
Moulder Street Water Main Renewal
Works on Moulder Street water main have been completed between Woodward and Sampson Streets. The remaining works have been deferred whilst works are completed as part of the Dalton Street Water Main Renewal.
Dalton Street Water Main Renewal
Works have commenced on the renewal of the 100mm water main in Dalton Street. The works involve the renewal of approximately 500m water main and renewal of the property water service connections. The new water main has been installed from McLachlan Street to Nile Street and water services transferred. Work is 75% completed. This project is expected to be completed by the end of May 2022.
Clergate Road Water Main
Council is finalising the planning works for the relocation of existing trunk water infrastructure to be completed with the upgrades to Clergate Road. Works are to be completed when road works commence.
Water Services
Installation of new water services at the following locations:
· 50 Silverdown Way
· 14 Juniper Place
Renewal of water services at the following locations:
· 50 Quinlan Run
· 40 Clinton Street
· 170 Spring Street
· 13 Barrett Street
SEWER SERVICES
The type and number of sewer service responses by maintenance staff are shown in the table below.
Category |
July 2020 – June 2021 |
March 2022 |
Sewer Choke - Blockages |
314 |
13 |
Sewer Complaint - Odour |
23 |
1 |
Sewer Complaint - Overflow |
192 |
11 |
Total Sewer Requests |
529 |
25 |
Sewer Construction Works
· 170 Spring Street - new sewer junction
· 391 Anson Street- new junction
Sewer Reconstruction
Sewer reconstruction works were carried out at the following location:
· 13 Wakeford Street
WATER SUPPLY SECURITY
Water Storage Levels
Water storage trends for the combined storages from 18 April 2019 to 14 April 2022 shown in the graph below.
Location |
Level Below Spillway (mm) |
% of Capacity |
Suma Park Dam |
260 |
95.69% |
Spring Creek Dam |
90 |
99.93% |
Lake Canobolas |
0 |
100% |
Gosling Creek Dam |
616 |
83.21% |
Supplementary Raw Water Sources
Extractions from the supplementary raw water supplies in recent months are provided in the table below. The ‘Total’ column is the water year being 1 July to 30 June.
Raw Water Source |
January 2022 (ML) |
February 2022 (ML) |
March 2022 (ML) |
Total (ML) 2021/2022 |
Bores* |
6.24 |
7.73 |
7.93 |
72.58 |
Stormwater |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
8.61 |
Macquarie River |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
Total |
6.24 |
7.73 |
7.93 |
81.19 |
* Bores include two at Clifton Grove and two at the Showground/Margaret Street
A more detailed monthly summary of raw water transfers can be found on Council’s website at https://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/water/oranges-water-supply/
The Decision Support Tool (DST) quarterly review was conducted during March 2022 with the forecast for wet conditions. With the storages being above 90% capacity, no external sources of water are currently required.
After off-site maintenance, the Macquarie River pumps have been re-installed and will be re-commissioned when licence conditions are met i.e.: combined storage less than 90% and river flow rate above 38 ML/day.
Macquarie River Flows
The flows for the period 23 March to 20 April 2022 in the Macquarie River monitored downstream of Long Point (Station 421192) are presented below. High flows continued through the period being above the extraction trigger value of 108 ML/d with a minimum flow rate of approximately 522 ML/d on 19 April 2022. A maximum flow rate of approximately 1,595 ML/day occurred on 9 April 2022.
The data for the chart below was sourced from the WaterNSW website with flows presented in megalitres per day (ML/d).
Demand Management
Residential water use
Permanent Water Saving Standards came into effect on Friday 25 June 2021.
Average daily residential water consumption during the week ending 14 April 2022 was 147 litres per person per day.
The graph below shows the average daily residential water consumption trends since April 2021.
Total water use
The average daily city-wide water consumption for the period 18 March 2022 to 14 April 2022 was 10.0 ML/day.
DRINKING WATER QUALITY
Water samples are collected as a component of Orange City Council’s Drinking Water Quality Monitoring Program in accordance with NSW Health requirements. Samples are collected regularly and sent to NSW Government National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accredited laboratory for analysis. Water quality for March 2022 complied with the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines health targets.
OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS
Lake Canobolas Water and Sewer
This project proposes to construct a new water main from Orange to Lake Canobolas to improve water quality and also construct a sewer main from Lake Canobolas back to Orange to cater for future higher use and improve environmental outcomes by removing septic systems from the Molong Dam water catchment.
To date, an environmental assessment has been undertaken and is currently being evaluated by Development Services. Land acquisition has occurred and the design is being finalised.
It is proposed to tender the works in two parts. Initially the pipeline construction will be tendered out and under another contract, the required sewer pump station will be tendered as a design and construct project.
Subject to work proceeding as planned, the first tender is proposed to be advertised within approximately three weeks.
East Orange Harvesting Wetlands
(Blackman’s Swamp Creek Stormwater Harvesting Stage 2)
This project which is designed to provide an offline storage on Blackman’s Swamp Creek to increase the city’s water supply secure yield is experiencing a delay due to a refusal of Council’s Water Supply Works Approval (under the Water Management Act 2000) application by the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR).
This refusal predominantly revolves around the interpretation of a weir and its legality under the Water Sharing Plan for the Macquarie-Bogan Unregulated Water Sources 2012.
Council staff are working with the Department of Planning and Environment and other government agencies to provide clarity as to the interpretation by NRAR and other options that may exist to facilitate the construction of the weir required to fill the offline storage.
Southern Feeder Road Stage 4
Following the resolution of Council on 19 April 2022 where Council resolved “..That subject to agreement on contractual clauses and in accordance with the proposal outlined within the body of this report, that Council accept the offer by the MAAS Group for The Construction of the Southern Feeder Road Stage 4 and Shiralee Collector Road Stage 5 – F3718 ..”. Staff have commenced discussions with the MAAS Group. It is hoped that contracts will be in a form to allow execution within the next few weeks.
AIRPORT ENERGY USAGE
Energy used at the airport during March 2022 was 16,095.96 kWh at a cost to Council of $1,236.00.
aIRPORT PASSENGER NUMBERS
Passenger numbers during March 2022 were 7,478 compared with 4,966 in the same month in 2021.
These figures include passenger numbers from Regional Express, Link Airways (formerly Fly Corporate) and QantasLink.
ENERGY USE
The following information is sourced from E21, Council’s energy software.