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4. THE DELIVERY PROGRAM
Covering a range of activities
Each council should aim to include a suitable range and proportion of activities in its Delivery
Program. The key areas of the Community Strategic Plan – social, economic, environmental and
civic leadership - should all be addressed in the range of activities chosen.
It is also important to undertake a representative proportion of Community Strategic Plan strategies.
If the Community Strategic Plan covers the minimum timeframe of 10 years, then it is reasonable to
expect that the Delivery Program, spanning four years will address a significant portion of the
strategies.
4.4 Linking strategic objectives and operational matters
There are some activities that Council undertakes that may not, at first, appear to have a strategic
focus – activities such as cemetery management, parking enforcement, food health inspections and
footpath repairs. However, these activities are an important means of achieving a community’s
strategic objectives and they should be included in the appropriate place in the Delivery Program
(and, ultimately, the Operational Plan).
For example, a council’s street cleaning program may be a means of achieving the community’s
strategic objective of ‘making our town centres attractive’.
Council’s records management activities may be a means of achieving the community’s strategic
objective of ‘open and effective local government in our shire’.
The following pages include some examples of how operational matters may fit in to the strategic
picture. These are samples and are not necessarily comprehensive examples, but provide an
overview of how issues can ‘cascade’ through the various plans.
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