27 February 2007 - Ordinary Meeting of Council (pdf. 14MB)

COMPARATIVE INFORMATION FOR NSW COUNCILS
2004/2005
Each year the Department of Local Government releases ‘The Comparative
Information Return on New South Wales Local Government Councils’. The latest
report released in January 2007 is for the 2004/2005 financial year. The data is
collected by an electronic survey of Councils as well as from Councils Annual
Financial Statements, NSW Grants Commission Returns and Notional Rate Returns.
Comparative information on the performance of Local Government allows residents
and ratepayers to make more informed assessments of the performance of their
Council.
When comparing one Council with another, it is important to be aware that the key
performance indicators do not on their own give the full picture of a Council’s
performance. The figures provide indicators only and conclusions should not be
drawn without qualitative assessments being made.
The ‘Australian Classification of Local Governments’ categorises Councils according
to their socio-economic characteristics and their capacity to deliver a range of services
to the community.
• Initially, it is a system based on whether a Council is principally ‘Urban’ or
‘Rural’.
• Urban Councils are then subdivided on the basis of whether they are ‘capital
cities’, ‘metropolitan developed’, ‘regional town/city’ or ‘fringe’.
• The final classification step is division based on population size.
Ku-ring-gai falls into Group 3 which is:
Urban – Metropolitan Developed – Population 70,000-120,000.
Group 3 consists of 13 other Councils which are:
Bankstown, Blacktown, Canterbury, Fairfield, Holroyd, Hurstville, Marrickville,
Parramatta, Randwick, Rockdale, Ryde, Sutherland, and Warringah.
Graphs have been compiled comparing Ku-ring-gai with the other Group 3 Councils
for each of the key performance indicators included in the report.
Due to the variances in size and other characteristics among Councils in Group 3,
another set of graphs have been compiled in parallel to compare Ku-ring-gai to our
neighbouring Councils.
These Councils are:
Hornsby, Pittwater, Ryde, Warringah, Willoughby, Lane Cove and North Sydney.
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