2015-08-18 Planning and Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    18 AUGUST 2015


11                       YEAR IN REVIEW - 2014-2015
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                             Chief Executive Officer, Brett de Chastel
                                   Executive Office

Index                              ECM/ Subject/ Corporate Planning

Attachments                        1.   Corporate Plan strategic goals


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the Planning & Organisation
Committee Meeting dated 18 August 2015 providing a review of Council’s activities and
progress in the 2014/15 financial year.


REPORT
It is timely to review Council’s progress following the completion of our first full financial year
(2014/15). The CEO provides the Council with quarterly reports looking at progress with the
Operational Plan and details of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This report is designed
to look at longer term progress at a Corporate Plan level. It provides an opportunity to pause
from the day to day minutia and to consider what we have achieved in the last 12 months.

Council will recall that at the time we developed our first Corporate Plan, we set out a
number of strategic goals and also identified seven clear priorities for our Council (refer to
Attachment 1). The key priorities identified were:

1.                       A financially sustainable Council
2.                       Great customer service
3.                       Community engagement and communication
4.                       Focus on community assets
5.                       Establishing new policies and strategies
6.                       Custodianship of Noosa’s environment
7.                       Diversification of our economy

Accordingly, it makes sense to review the progress in the last 12 months against those key
priorities.

2014/15 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

Corporate Plan Priority 1 - A financially sustainable Council
We will make sure that our Council is financially sustainable in both the short and long term.
This will entail a focus on strong budget control and good long term planning.

Key achievements include:
   Developing the 2014/15 budget based on a zero based budget methodology which
     examines every cost on its merits. The same methodology was used during the year



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