Annual Report 2002 - 2003 - Wattle Range Council - SA.Gov.au

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INFORMATION ENQUIRIES
Persons wishing to make
enquiries concerning the
procedures of inspecting
and purchasing the Council’s
policy and/or administrative
documents and the
Councils INFORMATION
STATEMENT should be made
to:
Ms Susanne Casimaty
Freedom of Information Officer
Wattle Range Council
PO Box 27
MILLICENT SA 5280
Inspection and purchases can be
made from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm,
Monday to Friday.
SECTION 65ZY – COUNCIL
CERTIFICATE
In the review year no certificates
was issued by Council or any
controlling authority under
Section 65zy of the Local
Government Act in respect of
restricted documents.
ELECTED MEMBERS
ALLOWANCE
Council fixed the following
annual allowances for the year
to 30th June, 2003, payable
quarterly in advance –
Mayor: $22,000
Deputy Mayor and Standing
Committee Chairmen: $6,500
Other Elected Members: $5,500
SENIOR EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
Council have appointed three
senior executives as listed in
the Council profile earlier in
this report. These are generally
employed on individual fixed
term contracts. Salary packages
include private use of Council
vehicles.
SERVICE DELIVERY
Council delivers its services
in a variety of ways including
in-house, contract, competitive
tendering and resource sharing.
It has adopted a service
provision policy to “provide
quality services that meet
customer needs by utilising
resources (physical, financial
and human) efficiently and
effectively.”
To support this, Council have
implemented a contestability
program under which Council
have identified its services and
how they’re delivered now and
in the future. The program
is supported by Council’s
Enterprise Agreements and
Corporate Plan.
Those services identified as
continuing to be delivered
in house are then subject
to performance review and
benchmarking in an ongoing
program.
Council also have a policy of
using local providers of goods
and services where practicable
and competitive with other
providers
NATIONAL COMPETITION
POLICY
Council’s obligations fall within
two principal categories.
Firstly, the identification
of “significant business
activities” and the application
of Competitive Neutrality
Principles to these activities.
Council has resolved that it has
no significant business activities.
Secondly, the review of Council
By-Laws regarding the extent
to which they might restrict
competition. Council has
undertaken a review of its
By-Laws. The new By-Laws
came into effect on 30 March
2001. Council has also adopted
a Complaints Process for the
Principles of Competitive
Neutrality. No complaints have
been received for 2002 - 2003
COUNCIL REPRESENTATION
QUOTA
The Wattle Range Council area
has been divided internally into
areas known as wards. Wards
are an electoral division for
the election of Councillors to
the Council and Wattle Range
Council consists of four wards
– Corcoran; Kintore; Riddoch
and Sorby Adams wards. Section
33 of the Local Government Act
1999 requires that the number
of electors represented by a
Councillor (i.e. the quota), must
not vary by more than 10% (+or-)
between all wards.
A review of Wattle Range
Council’s representation quota
was undertaken in September
2002 which showed Council had
a total of 10,161 electors and 11
Councillors and a representation
quota of 924 electors per
Councillor. Given the allowable
10% (+or-) variation in the quota,
the quota range for the Council’s
Wards is 893–976 electors per
Councillor.
The number of electors and
Councillors per Ward across the
Council area is as follows –
Corcoran Ward 4,464 electors
and 5 Councillors;
Kintore Ward 1,953 electors and
2 Councillors;
Riddoch Ward 1,885 electors and
2 Councillors; and
Sorby Adams Ward 1,859 electors
and 2 Councillors.
The respective Ward
representation quotas are as
follows –
Corcoran Ward has a Elector/
Councillor quota of 893 electors
per Councillor;
Kintore Ward a quota of 976;
Riddoch Ward a quota of 942;
and
Sorby Adams Ward a quota of
930.
All Ward quotas are within the
10% (+or-) allowable variance.
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