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Associate Development Day 2023

We are so excited for the return of the Associate Development Day after a 3-year break due to a little thing called Covid. This year it will be hosted at the Lancemore Mansion Hotel at the beautiful Werribee Park.

We have been working hard behind the scenes putting together an informative and engaging agenda and an invitation to register has been sent to your inbox!

To ensure the success of our event we would love it if you could join us on the day. As they say, ‘the more, the merrier’! It is also a wonderful opportunity for Associates to meet the CT Management Group staff and other Associates.

New Associates

CT Management Group, Directors and Staff welcome the following new Associates and staff who have joined the company over the past three months.

Justin Hanrahan (VIC) – Project Management

Justin has over 35 years of experience working as a Senior Manager in various strategic and operational positions for State and Local Governments.

Justin has shown leadership in being responsible for planning, redevelopment, and operations affecting Council public parks, sports facilities, street tree and waterway assets. He can think critically on a strategic and operational level and is able to add value to any organisation through his ability to get people to collaborate in the interests of the organisation.

Associate Profiling

Our company reviews on a monthly basis the profile of our Associates and those currently working.

On a bimonthly basis we advertise the profile of the current associates not working to all Councils across our four regions asking Councils to call us if they can place these associates.

We are also always looking for new Associates and the “required” column below shows the target that we are currently recruiting for across our regions. NSW and Qld regions are a high priority for new Associates.

Organisation Review • Performance reviews have been completed and KPIs updated for 2023/24. Associate Age Range · Associate Age Range

30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 8 17 17 50 16 Associates Currently Working Principal Category Current # of Associates Required Currently Working Asset Management 20 3 8 Community Services 7 2 Condition Assessments 10 1 2 Contract Management 9 6 Emergency Management 13 6 Environmental Management 5 2 Financial Management 14 3 4 Governance 17 2 4 Human Resources 4 2 1 Project Management 51 3 25 Service Planning 3 3 0 Technology 6 1 Waste Management 5 2 4

Currently working = people who have entered a timesheet on ProjectWorks in the week starting 5th June 2023

Annual Associate Survey Results

The Annual Associate Survey has provided valuable information from Associates, and we thank you for your response.

The 2023 Associate Survey has resulted in a 30% response from Associates, which is a decrease from 2022’s response rate of 35%, and 31% result in 2021.

Associates were asked to respond to 20 questions in a variety of question formats including scaling from 1-5 (1=low 5=high). The lowest average ranking this year was 3.10 compared to 3.20 in 2022 and the highest was 3.90 compared to 4.00 in 2022.

The total average overall for 2023 was 3.50. This compared to 3.60 in 2022.

CT Management Group – Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

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.

Service Planning and Service Management Frameworks

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.

International Asset Management Congress 2023 (Gold Coast June 2023)

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.

Asset Management Ramping up in Victoria

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).

A Message from the Managing Director – July 2023

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.