[John Norris]

Hi All,

My Finance Manager has asked me to canvas other councils to gauge which way you look like going on the implementation cost of the ESPL.

Either the Memorandum of Understanding or cost recovery.

Thanks,

John Norris

[Pete Timmins]

Hi John,

At this point in time we are intending to go with the cost recovery option.

Regards
Pete

[Robert Hay]

Hi Everyone

Just to clarify taking the upfront payment does not mean you cant also do cost recording as well, if you think your costs will exceed what was offered in the MOU.

Robert

[Matthew Saunders]

Hi everyone,

My manager wants to know how other councils are expending the up-front costs provided for the property classifications. Has anyone appointed any new or temporary staff, or set up a project team, implemented any software updates or carried out any major property reviews or inspections that will be paid out of the funding? Are you planning on spending all the funding?

Penrith City Council has so far only allocated a small portion for staffing costs (overtime) for reviewing the classifications.

Thanks.
Matthew.

[Tracey Walker]

Matthew,
We have set up a project team that consists of 3 rates, 2 from systems and a project accountant. We are costing out all time spend on land classifications project to the upfront payment we have received.

[Michael Cherry]

Matthew, we have setup a small team of 2 i.e. one full-time and one part-time. As with Tracey W. we are costing all their time spent on land classifications to a budget funded by the initial upfront payment. Cheers Mick

[Suzi Flynn]

We have a project manager hired specifically for ESPL. The rest of the project team are internals so of course it’s pretty difficult to monitor all of our time spent on this but we will try.

[David Grima]

There’s just little old me doing ours.

[Robert Hay]

Hi Everyone

In the latest release of the operating manual a deadline of 31 December 2016 has been set for Council’s to advise whether they will use the Cost or Formula approach regarding their set up cost.

This can be found on page 22 of the manual.

Just be aware they state if no response is received it will be deemed that Councils are using the Formula approach.

Robert

[Mary Klower]

Hi I have one extra staff member for one year given to me for the coding so just the two of us at this point in time.
Mary

[Susan Scott]

No extra staff for me; Council is just taking the money :(. However, I think I will cost the notices & information to be promulgated to that funding!

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