Category Archives: Associate Information

Kerri Procko – Executive Director | Chief Operating Officer

I am so lucky to work for a company like CT Management Group and am so grateful every day for the opportunities it has provided. In my 18 years of working full-time for CT I have seen many changes, especially when Covid arrived and we as a company introduced a work from anywhere policy, which allowed our staff to work from home during that period.

Well, this year I decided to take advantage of that policy and with the support of the MD have flown to Greece for a few months where I will holiday and work remotely.

Michael Courtney – Managing Director Introduction to our Sustainable Council Program

CT Management Group has developed its Sustainable Council Program to integrate service planning and asset management to ensure Council’s levels of service are optimised, meet future demand and are financially sustainable.

Councils of the future

The environment in which Councils operate is demanding greater transparency, longer term strategic planning and an ever-present focus on financial sustainability.

The 2023/24 Sustainable Council Program has been developed to support Councils prepare to meet future challenges and remain financially sustainable.

The Program

The Sustainable Council Program is a maturity assessment framework to assess Council’s financial sustainability – that is the Council’s capacity to:

fund its range of services in accordance with the current level of service.

Merv Hair – Marketing Manager

Preparation of our second Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is currently being undertaken and a new action plan formulated going forward. The current Action Plan can be found on our website.

Currently CT Management Group have worked with over 20 indigenous communities across our regions as clients.

As we work with Reconciliation Australia to formulate our Second Plan, Associates and Staff will be consulted as to the proposed action plan going forward.

 

Voice to Parliament

As the Nation progresses towards the referendum on a Voice to Parliament, we are reminded of the content of the Uluru Statement which calls for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.

Simon Walsh – Financial Services Manager 

The sector nationally is grappling with the fundamental challenges of making purposeful Service Planning integrate and effective within the complexity of Council service portfolio & shifting custodians of governance.

CT Management Group has for the past decade been working with Councils in the emerging space of Local Government Service Planning and has led 30+ Service Planning engagements.

All Eastern States of Australia are seeing a rise in interest and active utilisation of Strategic Service Planning and Service Management approaches to govern and target delivery of effective and efficient services.

CT Management is now adept at providing implementation support services to establish council-bespoke Service Management Frameworks and provide support to implement routine Service Planning cycles that are integrated with Strategic Financial Planning requirements.

David Braby – Principal – Asset Management

The IPWEA held its International Asset Management Congress at the Gold Coast Exhibition and Convention Centre in June which was well attended by asset management professionals across Australia and internationally. The Congress had plenty of international flavour with key representatives from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of America, American Public Works Association (APWA) and Federation of Canadian Municipalities discussing their journey to asset management improvement.

The USA is keen to leverage off the Australian and NZ asset management experience over the past 20 years to capitalise and build asset management capability from the $1.2 trillion in infrastructure investment which goes some way to dealing with their current $2.59 trillion infrastructure gap.

Alf Della Monica – Regional Manager VIC/TAS

With Victorian local government elections a little over 12 months away, councils are starting to ramp up their asset management commitments.

Section 92 of the LG Act 2020 requires councils to adopt an Asset Plan by 31 October following each election, this also includes complying with deliberative engagement practices.

In order to achieve this, councils must update Asset Management Policies & Strategies, Asset Management Plans and reflect these reviews in their Asset Plan (refer to the illustration below).

In the last six months alone, CT Management Group has worked on 20 asset management projects including AMCap assessments, Asset Management Plan updates and re-writes, State of the Asset Reporting, Asset Revaluations, Asset Renewal Modelling, Asset Maturity Reviews, Asset Data Management Framework and a number of Building Condition Assessments across 12 councils (in some cases completing multiple projects for these councils).

Michael Courtney 

Welcome to FY 2023/24!

We commence FY2023/24 with a significant pipeline of work to complete.

On behalf of the Chairman and Board we say “thank you” for the professionalism of our Associates achieving excellent results.

We acknowledge our reliance on our Associates’ experience and wisdom, which differentiates us from many of our competitors. CT Management Group doesn’t only “deliver a project” we also leave an organisation’s team with greater experience and knowledge.

We currently have:

95 active projects. 55 active placements. 41 Councils subscribed to our products. 51 Panel contracts. 56% success rate for our tenders, up from 46% last financial year.