Annual Report 2005-2006 - Waverley Council

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Waverley Council
Meeting Our Statutory Requirements
The following information is provided in accordance with the annual reporting requirements outlined in
Section 428(2) of the Local Government Act 1993.
a. Statement of Expenses, Revenue and Assets
This information can be found in Council’s Financial Report, which begins on page 121.
b. Actual and Projected Performance Comparison
This can be found in Section Two – Reviewing Our 2005/2009 Management Plan beginning on page
18.
c. State of The Environment – How Are We Going?
(Also see pages 156 – 178 and our separate State of The Environment Report 2006)
In our State of the Environment Report a number of environmental indicators have been included to
help assess how Council, other government agencies and the community are looking after the
environment and working towards the goal of ecologically sustainable development (ESD). As it is
impossible to accurately assess when a community has achieved the right environmental and
economic balance, indicators can show whether we are heading in the right direction. They can also
be used as a report card to assess Council's performance in the years ahead.
The indicators that are used have met the following criteria:
they reflect something fundamental to the long term economic, environmental or social health of the
community;
they are statistically measurable — either the data exists or a practical method of data collection can
be created;
the indicator represents something that can be influenced by the community or government actions.
The indicators that have been chosen are by no means exhaustive, nor cover every environmental,
economic or social consideration. However, they provide the starting point for Council's environmental
program. Each year government agencies suggest a suite of indicators for councils and other
agencies to use. Only some of these are included in this report because Council could spend all its
time and resources collecting information on the state of and pressures impacting on the environment
rather than acting to protect it.
The indicators chosen are listed below. For each indicator progress in the current year against the
base year 2001/2002 is shown unless relevant data or other information was unavailable. The last
column shows our movement toward sustainability compared with the baseline figures.
Sustainability Indicator 2001/2002 2005/2006 Movement toward
sustainability
Total tonnes waste to landfill
(no recycling)
17,924 16,958
Total tonnes waste to
recycling
6,873 10,493.9
Tonnes of illegally dumped
rubbish removed by Council
250 634.6
Annual Report 2005//2006