Works Programme
Capital projects and crew work in one programme, reported to council every month.
Council Sees
What Got Built,
Every Month
We run your works programme with your works manager and report to council every month.
Money Spent and Work Delivered, on One Line
Council's finance report counts the money, not whether the reseal is finished. A project can sit under budget all year because the work has not started, then finish late and over. We put money spent and work delivered on the same line, so council sees the gap in time to act.
What We Do for Councils
Community Capital Framework
An independent check before council commits the money.
Additional Services
Business case to contract administration. Take one or take the lot.
Half an Hour
on Your Programme
Bring this year's adopted programme. We will show you where it sits against your crews and your budget.
Where Does Your Council Sit
Six questions about your own council. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored and there is no email to enter. The answers stay in this browser and the result appears underneath.
Nothing you answer here is sent, stored or seen by anyone but you.
These six questions work out which of three positions a council is in. Without JavaScript the result cannot be worked out in the page, but the questions are worth answering on paper, and there are three positions the answers point to.
- Has your community told you that roads are a top priority, through a scorecard, a survey or the council chamber?
- Yes, formally, through a survey or scorecard
- Yes, informally, through the chamber and the counter
- No, other things come up first
- Not sure
- Of the capital projects in last year's adopted programme, how many were delivered within the year?
- All of them
- Most of them
- About half
- Fewer than half
- Is the programme sequenced against crew, plant and contractor availability, or is it a list of projects and a budget total?
- Sequenced against crews, plant and contractors
- Partly sequenced, for the larger projects
- A list of projects and a budget total
- What did you carry forward into this year, as a share of the programme?
- Very little
- Up to a quarter
- Between a quarter and a half
- More than half
- We do not track it that way
- When did you know those projects were not going to be delivered?
- Before the mid year review
- At the mid year review
- At year end
- After the accounts closed
- How confident are you about this year's programme?
- Very confident
- Reasonably confident
- Some doubt
- Not confident
Position 1
You Have a Programme
Delivery is tracked, the position is known through the year and what goes to council already reflects it. Between now and June you will land close to what was adopted, and if you are not going to, you will know while there is still time to do something about it.
There may be little here that you need.
Position 2
You Have a Plan, but You Find Out Late
A programme exists and it is followed. What is missing is a current view of it. The position gets assembled by hand each month, or reconstructed when somebody asks for it, so slippage shows first as an underspend in the monthly finance report, well before it is seen as a delay on the programme.
Between now and June the programme will drift in ways that are not visible until the carry forward is counted.
Position 3
You Have a Budget, Not a Programme
There is an adopted list of projects and a budget total, and no sequenced multi year view behind it that accounts for crews, plant and contractor availability. Carry forward gets discovered when the accounts close.
None of the monthly or quarterly reports asks a council to produce that view. It does mean that between now and June, sequencing will be set by whatever becomes urgent, and the year end position will not be visible until it arrives.
Who Runs It
Council Works is run by Meridian Advisory. Brendan J Smith, Managing Partner, has been a local government executive and has spent more than twenty years delivering major capital works.