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Stornoway and Brighton Council to share maintenance resources

Posted on 13 August, 2009 in Stornoway Maintenance News

In what is considered a first in Tasmania, Brighton Council and Stornoway Maintenance have formally signed a Mutual Resourcing Agreement which will see sharing of plant, equipment and labour for the delivery of road construction and maintenance works between the two organisations.

The program aims to create a single pool of resources that supports Council’s delivery of its’ municipal works program, while giving Stornoway an enlarged pool of expertise and equipment to draw from in delivering its’ own contracts.

The agreement arose through discussions regarding the common resourcing challenges of both local government and the private sector – particularly difficulties in accessing skilled labour, underutilisation of equipment and seasonal workload variations.

According to Stornoway CEO Tim Gardner, the Agreement has had immediate benefit.

“Knowing that we can work in with Council to help deliver their works program has allowed us to employee and train up more people”, Mr Gardner said. “At the same time, we can quote work for other clients knowing we can draw upon Brighton’s capabilities and resources.”

Brighton Council General Manager, Ron Sanderson said the Agreement is about finding innovative approaches to managing resourcing levels through a time of change for local government.

“This model allows us to keep control of our maintenance works, while improving utilisation of experienced staff and specialist plant and equipment”, Mr Sanderson said.

The scope of the services in the mutual resourcing program include asset inspection and reporting, project supervision, maintenance works programming, routine maintenance works delivery, minor capital works delivery and emergency response requirements.

Successfully trialled in 2008, a new Agreement was formally put in place on the 1st July 2009.

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