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

 

For apologies please contact Administration on 6393 8106.

  

 


Infrastructure Policy Committee                                                                  3 May 2022

Agenda

  

1                Introduction.. 3

1.1            Declaration of pecuniary interests, significant non-pecuniary interests and less than significant non-pecuniary interests. 3

2                Committee Minutes. 5

2.1            Minutes of the City of Orange Traffic Committee Meeting - 12 April 2022. 5

3                General Reports. 41

3.1            Current Works. 41

 


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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.

 


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2       Committee Minutes

2.1     Minutes of the City of Orange Traffic Committee Meeting - 12 April 2022

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

 

Recommendation

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


 1      Introduction

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.

1.2     Acknowledgement of Country

 

1.3     Declaration of pecuniary interests, significant non-pecuniary interests and less than significant non-pecuniary interests

Nil

2       Previous Minutes

RECOMMENDATION                                                                  Mr K Gardiner/Sgt A Cornish

That the Minutes of the Meeting of the City of Orange Traffic Committee held on 8 March 2022 (copies of which were circulated to all members) be and are hereby confirmed as a true and accurate record of the proceedings of the City of Orange Traffic Committee meeting held on 8 March 2022 with the exception of Item 3.10 as this item was deferred from the Council Meeting held on 5 April 2022 to allow further discussions with residents.

 

 

3       General Reports

3.1     Orange Runners Club Hiney Road and Bargwanna Road 2022 events

TRIM Reference:        2022/419

Recommendation                                                                  Mr K Gardiner/Sgt A Cornish

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

TRIM Reference:        2022/420

Recommendation                                                                  Sgt A Cornish/Mr K Gardiner

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)

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.

 

 

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.

 


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Attachment 1      Agenda - COTC - 12 April 2022


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3       General Reports

3.1     Current Works

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

 

Recommendation

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.

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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. 

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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;

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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ENERGY USE

The following information is sourced from E21, Council’s energy software.

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