02/10/2026
Your council has adopted a ten year maintenance plan and thought the problem was solved. But most councils never look at it again until the special levy arrives.
Here's what nobody sees coming. The plan assumes a certain reserve fund balance at year one. If your fund is actually lower than that assumption, the gap compounds. By year seven or eight, what looked like a manageable program becomes impossible without a special levy.
Check your plan right now. Find two numbers: the opening reserve fund balance the plan assumes, and the actual balance your council holds today. If there's a gap, that's your real ten year horizon. That gap is what gets you.
Any answer to this needs someone reading both numbers together, month on month, watching where the actual fund sits against where the plan expects it to sit.
We've built systems to do exactly that for building councils across Perth and regional WA. It catches the gap while you still have time to adjust.
Pull your plan this month and look at those two numbers.
https://www.cameronfacilities.com.au/building-management-perth/