The Local Government & Muncipal (LGAM) Knowledge Base is a Wiki created for the use of and to promote collaboration between Local Councils, Water Authorities and associated organisations, and to help them try to save money by sharing information instead of buying it. It is primarily aimed at an Australian & New Zealand audience, but users from other countries are more than welcome to join, and are encouraged to reuse any useful information they find on the site. It is a place to post any information† that may be of interest to Councils, and to search for information already posted. There are currently 2050+ pages of information on the site.
Please feel free to add information and pages and to contribute to the forum.
If you have any suggestions about how to improve the site PLEASE leave a comment in the Suggestion Box.
There is quite a bit of information already on the site. To find it you can either;
(a) use the search window at the top right of the screen
(b) use the side menu to the left of the screen
(c) click on one of the randomly generated links below & navigate from there.
Random Pages
There are lot of articles on this site and it isn't always easy to find them. This is especially true if you don't know they are there. The links below change every time you access the home page, so if you keep an eye on them, you may see something of interest you didn't know was on the site.
Serpentine-Jarrahdale Shire Council
Gwydir Shire Council
Alice Springs Town Council
York Shire Council
Operation
Sub-Arterial Road
Kulin Shire Council
Fair Value
Bitumen
Network Asset
Australian Council of Local Government
PSM
RRG
Reference Documents
Central Darling Shire Council
Western Australian Councils
AMP Customer Research & Expectations Report
Road Roughness Survey
Department of Community Safety (Queensland)
South Perth City Council
Unit Rates
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Determining accurate or even realistic unit rates seems to be a big issue for local government. I know for a fact it's an issue for both Bundaberg Regional Council, and for some of our neighbours, and I have seen a number of discussion about it on various other forums. I know it is true that the cost of an activity will vary considerably from location to location, but all-the-same I think an open database of typical unit rates for those works regularly undertaken by Councils would be a very useful resource for many Councils.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, and I think I have come up with a good way of getting the project happening.
If you are interested, please check out the Unit Rate page, for more information.
October 2009 Update
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15 new members joined the site in October, bringing the total to 165.
The site now contains 2050 pages of information, and as of 31 October, 6,604 different people have visited the site on a total of 11,900 occasions and viewed 81,742 pages.
The average number of people visiting the site each weeks seems to be trending in the right direction, but it is still pretty up and down from week to week.
The Forum
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The Forum has been pretty active over the last few weeks or so - in comparison to its usual slumber at least. It is very gratifying to see it being used, and I hope more users take advantage of it in the future. If you are a bit hesitant to contribute to pages, but would like to be part of the site, leaving a comment on the forum is probably the easiest way to start.
I just started an Introduce Yourself Thread, which would be an ideal place to start if you are thinking of taking the plunge!!
