Major Project Updates

Keep up with some of Council's major projects with these quarterly updates.

Council is undertaking a 12-month food organics and garden organics (FOGO) trial in collaboration with our Waste Management Partner.

Over 600 households and a small number of businesses in parts of Woodside and Lenswood will trial the new kerbside bin collection systems. This includes a new FOGO bin for rural households and a change in the collection frequency of organics bins and landfill bins, which aims to improve the food waste diversion from landfill.

Implementation of the FOGO trial has commenced. Residents have been informed and kitchen caddies and welcome packs delivered.

The FABRIK Development Project involves upgrading and enhancing the former Onkaparinga Woollen Mills site at Lobethal to create an arts and heritage hub in the central Adelaide Hills.

Summary of works this quarter includes:

• Construction and sheeting of internal walls in buildings 14 and 20.
• Re-sheeting of ceilings in buildings 14 and 20. First fix electrical works of buildings 14 and 20.
• Replacement of sawtooth window panesin upper levelbuilding 20.
• Joinery installation of buildings 14 and 20.
• Excavation of old concrete and soils to enable new external stormwater works for building 14 and Pavilion.
• First fix installation of air conditioning system.
• Exposed sections of external walls on building 21.
• External painting of buildings 14 and 21.

The scheduled completion of works has a risk of running over, pending Heritage SA requirements of the exposed stone wall and manufacturing and delivery of distribution board cabinets.

Funding has been provided to enable the purchase of approximately 12 electric vehicles during 2023-24 as well as installation of the supporting charging infrastructure.

Major milestones completed during the quarter with the arrival of the first electric vehicle and the completion of the charging station at Heathfield Depot.

Work has also progressed in relation to the design of the charging stations at Stirling.

The strategic review of the charging infrastructure has not as yet been completed in line with original timeframes, however this is currently being progressed.

In July 2023, Council adopted an implementation plan based on the “Our Watch Toolkit for Local Government”.

The aim of the toolkit is to prevent violence against women and their children through a range of strategies including those with an organisational focus. This is followed by work with the community to raise awareness and to undertake population based prevention activities.

A new internal Working Group (WG) has been established to lead workplace and community activities focused on preventing violence against women and their children (as per the Our Watch's Toolkit Implementation Plan, adopted by Council in July 2023). The new WG comprises 9 staff from across 7 departments, andwill be Co-Chaired by Council's Community & Social Planning Officer and Senior People & Culture Advisor.

Following on from the Community Resilience and Readiness pilot, the program has evolved to focus on community led emergency preparedness. The name of the program also changed to be Toward Community Led Emergency Resilience Program (TCLERP).

The program has several areas of focus including:

• Community Engagement
• Psychological and emotional emergency preparedness community education
• Recovery ready halls project – emergency preparedness for select community facilities
• Vegetation management project – ensuring practices are based on best fire science and within shared land owners existing capacity

• Adelaide Hills Community Action Bushfire Network (AHCABN) have completed a workshop to develop a plan for when or if the network is required to "activate" after a bushfire or other natural disaster.
• We have been updating the Readiness, Resilience and Recovery webpages on council's website, to include information about upcoming community preparedness information sessions and workshops, including local RediCommunities workshops and Building Coping Skills in Children workshops.
• Community halls that have been successful recipients of the Recovery Ready Halls funding opportunity have been notified.
• A draft Bushfire Mitigation Landscape Strategy has been developed and was introduced to Elected Members at a Council workshop.
• RediCommunities workshop series concluded in Uraidla, Summertown, Houghton, Inglewood and Paracombe. We are now supporting actions identified by participating communities through the workshop process.
• A new Recovery Operations Manual has been endorsed in preparedness for potential recovery processes requiring council involvement this bushfire season. A consultant has also been selected to commence work on a Workforce Emergency Management Manual.