Future Resilience in Emergency & Asset Management

Date: 23/08/2012 Presented by: Anthony Genovese

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What is Resilience?

• Resilience is an outcome.

• The ability to anticipate risk & limit impact.

• The ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

• Shared responsibility.

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4 Phases of Emergency Management

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2011 Australian Catastrophes Catastrophe Date No of claims

lodgedTotal reserved value of claims

Queensland floods 21/12/10 58,685 $2.4bn

Victorian floods 13/01/11 7,983 $122m

Cyclone Yasi 02/02/11 73,250 $1.4bn

Victorian storms 04/02/11 50,063 $418m

Perth bushfires 05/02/11 410 $35m

Victorian Christmas Day storms

25/12/11 112,000 $703m

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Natural Disaster Relief & Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA)

• Commonwealth Funding Arrangement

• Amendments to NDRRA

• Independent Assessment

• Identify Insured vs Uninsured

• Road Assets

• Outcome

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LGA Asset Mutual FundWeather related losses

Year Event No of Claims Reserve value of claims

2009 Storm & TempestWater Damage

35 $226,634

2010 Storm & TempestWater Damage

63 $318,880

2011 FloodStorm & TempestWater Damage

87 $2,987,149

2012 Storm & TempestWater Damage

50 $516,140

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LGA Asset Mutual Fund - Solution

• General Assets - $5.5 bn.Buildings/Contents/Plant & Equipment

• Historically – Infrastructure Assets

• Bridges, weirs, - $300 mFootbridges Underground fibre optic Traffic signals & lighting

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LGRS - Other Risk Programs - Solution• Business Continuity Program

• Coastal Management Project

• Fire Danger Days/Extreme Heat Management

• Roads Project

• Climate Adaptation Program

• Regional Disaster Resilience Program

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In Summary

• LGA Asset Mutual Fund

• Infrastructure Assets

• LGAMLS Initiatives

• Risk Management Programs

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Working Together

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Planning

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We become more resilient

Thank you