Operational Plan 2024-25 Q2 Quarterly Reporting

Brian Stockwell90:18

I'll just kick off. So you said we've got a new system coming through. While it's an operational and the plan is one year, what we hope to achieve in one year from the Corporate Plan, when staff are reporting, are they looking directly at the operational plan or are they actually reporting against their branch plans down here? I'm just looking, will the new system actually provide that alignment if it's the latter?

Attachment 2 is just really a high order summary in a spreadsheet of all of the initiatives by theme as well. Going forward, that probably won't be produced in the report because we're aiming to actually produce the report from our new corporate planning system for the next round of reporting provided everything goes to plan. So it's a little bit, it's still under development but we're nearly there. And then attachment three just provides an update on the operational KPIs that we've traditionally reported on with some commentary. There are a couple of areas where unfortunately commentary wasn't provided. We had a bit of a hiccup because this is, these reports are actually produced from the system and there are just a couple of areas, but I'm sure the directors will be able to answer any questions if you had any specifics on that. One that I'd probably like to highlight is the staff turnover figure, which is getting close to the 20%. If you do compare it to Australian figures, the average turnover rate to December 24 was 14%. And in the public sector, it's 18%. So we're not alone in this situation. So very reflective of public sector figures. Having said that, of course, we need it, especially the delivery of a lot of our projects depends on having those staff, and there are some hot areas at the moment as well.

Yeah, look, and we sometimes people do actually in their commentary probably, I suppose, want to promote that they are progressing, do you know what I mean? We really will need to keep an eye on that in the third quarter because then we will be looking to develop the new operational plan. In the last quarter there were a number there are several initiatives that were showing minor and major disruptions that have got back on track but it will need we to scrutinise it a little bit more closely to make sure the reporting is accurate but particularly at that quarter three because you do not want to get to quarter four and think everything's progressing just fine on track and then get a surprise but normally that doesn't happen um you know there can be developments in projects with a chat with a Council decision for example which allows things to progress and staff have been working pretty hard to bring things back on track.