5 Ronald Ave, Harbord NSW
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27 November 2007
Mr. Warwick Anderson Grant's Help Desk 6217.9165 f
Chief Executive Officer Council of NHMRC 6217.9205 f
National Health & Medical Research
Research funding
6217.9045 f
Council of Australia
GPO
Box 1421
Canberra ACT 2601
Dear Mr. Anderson
Business Plan for NSW Department of Health or another Health Agency to -
I. implement a 12 month Pilot in NSW of a Youthful Exuberance Lifestyle Programme ("YELP") to achieve a Critical Mass of >5,000 new Participants in 14 Recreational Exercise Activities presently provided by +900 existing district recreational exercise groups; and
II. conduct a 9 months Research Programme (within the Pilot) in NSW to measure the Hypothesis' scope to materially reduce Seven Problems which presently costs Australia over $100 billion annually
Scope for cash injection and modelling resource input for YELP from major Australian companies under a Public Private Partnership
I refer to the enclosed letter to you dated 12 November 2007 which I posted to you -
(i) with 2 CDs two weeks ago; and
(ii) a week ago with a further copy of the CD, which I undertook to provide in my enclosed letter.
Each
CD contains over 600 files which collectively provide a +300 page
Business Plan for a
Youthful Exuberance
Lifestyle Programme. My letter to you dated 12 November
2007, the
Attachment and
Section Titles, summarise the Business Plan. By inserting the
CD into a CD drive, my enclosed letter opens providing over 3,500 URLs to
related
Defined Terms
and
Section Titles
within the Business Plan. If you
save the CD to a hard drive, you need to click on
C:Youthful Exuberance Lifestyle Program/Invitations/Invitation_letter.htm.
A
vital facet of my Business Plan is a 9 months Research Programme to quantify,
using
Purpose Built Quant
Modelling Software
and a
Base Case Financial Model, the
Hypothesis'
scope to materially reduce the
Seven Problems
by calculating the
Economic Return on Capex.
The Writer is an early retiree Commonwealth Bank Infrastructure Banker with a lifetime in voluntary sports administration. The Writer previously dealt with business associates from a few of the largest Australia companies (investment banks, law firms, infrastructure, 'et al') who -
A. understand how to develop infrastructure finance projects from an initial business plan to financial close and ultimately practical completion and commencing the operations phase; and
B. share the Writer's passion for the benefits of regular rigorous, challenging, recreational exercise, amidst a Common Bond Support Group which is the Hypothesis.
Should
NHMRC exhibit early interest in my Business Plan, I am confident of attracting
both cash injections and modelling input from some large Australian companies to
develop
Purpose Built Quant Modelling Software
and the
Base Case Financial Model. These companies employ modellers expert in
creating base case financial models to measure economic return on equity and
Capex.
A
patent further benefit of accepting resource input from the private sector under
the structure of a
Public Private Partnership (PPP") is the encouragement the
senior execs of these companies would provide to their employees for YELP, which
would materially facilitate both the 9 months Research Programme and the
12 months Pilot.
In my last role at Commonwealth Bank I worked on PPP's in "Social & Corporate Infrastructure". PPPs are favoured by government as generally private equity carries 'inter alia' credit risk, construction risk and patronage risk during the concession period.
A PPP for YELP would have different drivers and a different equity structure, because -
A) the CEOs of major companies are invariably keen to -
(I) demonstrably encourage their employees towards a healthier lifestyle, and
(II) be associated with an explicit scratch and feel proactive healthy lifestyle programme with definitive Milestones and targets to create a more productive and cohesive Australia; and
B) Government needs to retain policy and management control over health projects, incl YELP.
Consequently, I envisage that say up to a dozen major
Section 17 "Budget for 12 months Pilot in NSW, including 9 months Research Programme" establishes that the development and rollout costs are exceedingly low due to -
a) the enthusiasm of Recreational Exercise Consultants who possess Ten Sports Administration Attributes; and
b) Three Low Cost Propagation Initiatives.
These costs would reduce under a
PPP structure where a
Health Agency on behalf of government, also held equity, and
importantly retained policy and management control under a trust deed with the
other equity partners.
As a former infrastructure banker
the Writer views YELP as expending
Capex
in the
Pilot,
Propagation and
Product
Phases
on
Brownfield Infrastructure (Australian Interested Adults) to
retrofit many of them (in varying degrees from minor to major re-fits -
depending on each
Interested Adult's
state of disrepair) to strengthen them by re-igniting
Youthful Exuberance
(a trait that many adults can
relate to, but presently believe has passed them by) to improve -
(a) their own productivity and QOL; and
(b) the nation's bottom line productivity by reducing the costly Seven Problems.
I welcome -
I. your response letter, and e-mail, which confirms receipt of my letter dated 12 November 2007; and
II.
meeting with some of your delegates prior to Christmas, together with one of the
afore-mentioned corporate execs who has a passion for rigorous exercise in the
great outdoors, to discuss this
Business Plan.
Yours sincerely
Phil Johnston
Ride Organiser and President Muggaccinos Bicycle User Group
Director of KOMpm Pty Ltd