AGENDA - Shire of Roebourne

Ordinary Council Meeting – Agenda 19 October 2009
9 CORPORATE SERVICES
9.1 CORPORATE
9.1.1 Policy Manual Review
File No: AL/1/2
Attachment(s) Table of proposed amendments
Amended policies
Responsible Officer: Executive Manager Corporate Services
Author Name: Corporate Compliance Officer
Disclosure of Interest: Nil
REPORT PURPOSE
To present recently reviewed and amended policies to Council for adoption.
Background
The purpose of the Policy Manual is to:
Provide clear direction to staff to enable the effective and efficient day to day
management of the Shire of Roebourne;
Enable staff to act promptly in accordance with Council‘s requirements but without
continual reference to Council;
Set a guiding direction for the management of the Shire and assist staff and Council in
achieving a fair and equitable decision making process as well as meeting statutory
requirements; and
Enable the community to be aware of the reasoning behind administrative and Council
decisions.
The Policy Manual is subject to review on an annual basis to ensure that policies are in
keeping with community expectations, current trends and circumstances.
Issues
The responsible officers have been given an opportunity to review and make appropriate
changes to their policies.
A summary of changes are outlined in the attached table. Position titles have also been
changed where applicable to bring them in line with the recent organisational restructure,
as have policy numbers.
The Purchasing Policy has had the Purchasing Threshold limits changed in order to make
the purchasing of goods and services more effective and less time consuming. A check of
5 other WA Councils showed that similar limits have been set by 3 of them.
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