As mentioned in the news section above, the Queensland Government & LGAQ have just announced that they were successful in obtaining $2.7 million in funding from the Federal Government's Local Government Reform Fund to support Queensland Council's developing Core Asset Management Plans for key infrastructure assets.
This is a welcome announcement, but it got me thinking how I would spend $2.7 million dollars of federal money.
If the other levels of government really want to help Local Government tackle asset management properly, I believe they should start by replacing old fashioned expensive hardcopy asset management manuals with web-based encyclopedic manuals published under a creative commons license, thereby making them freely available to Local Government, and easy to update.
That probably wouldn't cost anywhere near $2.7 million to do, but it would be a huge help to Council's right across Australia.
How would you spend the money?
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
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