State of the Environment Report 2010/2011 - Liverpool City Council

PART 2 / Management Plan
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Our Management
Plan
The Management Plan is the primary
document by which Council communicates
to the community its future plans and
finances. It sets out what Council proposes
to achieve over the coming four years,
more specifically the tasks and projects to
be achieved and services to be delivered
over the coming year and the means by
which these will be funded. It has been
designed to meet the requirements set
out in the Local Government Act and will
provide the basis for Council’s annual
report. The Planning and Reporting
Guidelines for Local Government issued
by the State Government are known as
the integrated planning and reporting
framework means that 2010-2011 is the
last year council will operate under the
management plan system.
It is made up of three key components:
the Corporate Plan, the Budget (including
the Capital Works Program) and Revenue
Pricing Policy (presented in a separate
volume). The Corporate Plan summarises
the key activities and services that will be
undertaken during 2010-2011, the Budget
shows how these activities, services and
capital works will be funded and the
Revenue Pricing Policy explains the basis
on which particular fees and charges are
levied.
Council’s corporate planning process is
designed so that Liverpool Directions is
kept at the forefront of management
decisions through the strategies by which
the long term outcomes are to be pursued.
Liverpool Directions, the community’s
long-term vision for the future, was
the starting point for our planning for
Liverpool’s future. The community views
in Liverpool Directions were gathered from
the involvement of over 1,700 Liverpool
residents, students and workers during
late 2004 to mid 2006.
The outcomes contained in Liverpool
Directions describe how the community
would like to see Liverpool in 2016. In
working towards this vision, Council has
a key role to play but it does not have
sole responsibility. The responsibility
for delivering these outcomes is shared
between Council, the NSW State
Government and the Federal Government
as well as local community groups and
service providers. It is only through
ongoing partnerships that these long term
goals will be achieved.
We have taken care to ensure that ‘line of
sight’ exists from this long-term strategic
vision of Liverpool Directions, through the
planning and budgeting process to the
management plan down to the individual
business plans and tasks of staff. The
corporate plan and budget both have midterm
commitments of three to four years
as well as annual commitments. All of
these are reviewed annually.
The management plan is divided into the
following themes:
• The regional city for South West
Sydney
• Neighbourhoods and villages
• The land between two rivers where
city and country meet
• A place for people
• Communities and governments
working together
• Sustainability
• Improved organisational
management and development.
Each theme is divided into outcomes,
strategies and actions.
Outcomes:
The community’s
aspirations for the
long-term
These are the outcomes toward which
Council is working over the next 10
years, and are derived from extensive
community consultation conducted by
Council between 2004 and 2006, as
part of the Partnership Project which
resulted in the establishment of Liverpool
Directions. These outcomes are grouped
under seven themes.
Strategies:
How Council will
achieve these outcomes
These are the strategies or approaches
Council will implement to achieve the
outcomes that are the responsibility of
Council. They generally cover a four-year
time period and are subject to review on
an annual basis as part of our corporate
planning process.
Actions for
2010-2011
These are highlights of the specific actions
that Council said it will complete in the
2008-2009 financial year to implement
the strategies. The actions listed in this
section are our performance indicators
and are reported quarterly to Council in
accordance with the requirements of the
Local Government Act 1993.
Council’s regular
services to the
community
Liverpool City Council provides the
Liverpool community daily with a wide
range of services, many of which are
routine or unchanging. These services
and other work of the Council, in turn,
are supported by a wide range of internal
services. They are mainly those that relate
to the resources necessary for the delivery
of actions in the Corporate Plan, improve
the efficiency of Council operations or are
otherwise required by State legislation or
policy. Collectively all these services absorb
the majority of Council staff and financial
resources.
Our performance
review process
The Local Government Act 1993 requires
that the General Manager reports to
Council on a quarterly basis regarding
the organisation’s progress against its
projected activities and budget for the
year. Council also prepares the Annual
Report as a comprehensive overview of
Council’s performance for the financial year
against the activities in the Management
Plan. To support both of these documents,
Council produces a quarterly newsletter
that is sent to all landowners that provides
the community with an update on our
recent activities.
New legislation for the way Councils plan
has been implemented which means that
the 2010-2011 Management Plan is the
final plan that Council will prepare. For
more information, please refer to page 41
of this documen
Liverpool City Council ANNUAL REPORT