City of Greater Bendigo Annual Budget 2014/2015

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8.5 Staffing Resources The current breakdown of staff numbers for the City of Greater Bendigo is outlined below: No of Male No of Female Total No of Total Employees Employees Employees Employee % Full Time 270 170 440 41.9 Part Time 57 276 333 31.7 Casual 57 129 186 17.7 Temp Full Time 15 41 56 5.4 Temp Part Time 6 29 35 3.3 Total 405 645 1,050 100% Greater Bendigo City Council Budget – 2014/2015 44
9. Rating Information This section contains information on Council’s past and foreshadowed rating levels along with Council's rating structure and the impact of changes in property valuations. 9.1 Strategy Context In developing the Council Plan and the Strategic Resource Plan (referred to in Section 8), rates and charges were identified as an important source of revenue, accounting for approximately half of the total revenue received by Council annually. A key component of the strategy is to ensure the surplus on operations, when added to depreciation, funds an acceptable level of capital works without the need for excessive borrowing. The Council Plan assumes a rate increase of 6.00% in 2014/2015, then an ongoing rate increase of 6.00% over the years 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 plus additional rate revenue from growth. This enables the City of Greater Bendigo to embark upon a significant level of new capital works each year and a manageable level of borrowings. Planning for future rate increases has therefore been an important component of the long term financial planning process. The City of Greater Bendigo also actively reviews fees and charges each year to minimise pressure on rates to ensure users are paying a reasonable price for services. The City of Greater Bendigo also pursues all available opportunities for grants and subsidies. In determining rate increases each year it is necessary to balance the importance of rate revenue as a funding source with community sensitivity to increases, including the impact of a bi-annual general revaluation, which alters property valuations and subsequently rates for some properties in the municipality. The latest revaluation of properties has been applied in the 2014/2015 year. To ensure that deliberations about future rate increases have been made on an informed basis, comparisons of historical rate increases for the City of Greater Bendigo have been made. The following table shows the rate increases over four years and the average rate per capita. Rate Average Rate Per Year Increase Capita 2011/2012 5.90% $699 2012/2013 5.50% $730 2013/2014 6.00% $778 2014/2015 6.00% $825 Average increase 5.85% $758 Greater Bendigo City Council Budget - 2013/2014 45
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Page 3 and 4: ADDENDUM This addendum should be re
Page 5 and 6: Introduction from the Mayor, Cr Bar
Page 7 and 8: 3. Cash and Investments Cash and in
Page 9 and 10: 7. Council Expenditure Allocations
Page 11 and 12: 1. Linkage to the Council Plan This
Page 13 and 14: 1.3 Themes and Strategic Objectives
Page 15 and 16: People and Performance Contracts an
Page 17 and 18: Initiatives Initiatives 9) Employ S
Page 19 and 20: Presentation and Works Bendigo Live
Page 21 and 22: Roads Satisfaction Satisfaction wit
Page 23 and 24: 2.5 Theme 5 - Sustainability Sustai
Page 25 and 26: 2.6 Major Initiatives Major Initiat
Page 27 and 28: 3.4 Internal Influences There are a
Page 29 and 30: 4. Analysis of Operating Budget 4.1
Page 31 and 32: 4.2.4 Reimbursements ($.006 million
Page 33 and 34: 4.3.1 Employee Benefits ($5.36 mill
Page 35 and 36: 5.1.1 Operating Activities ($0.47 m
Page 37 and 38: 6. Analysis of Capital Budget This
Page 39 and 40: 6.1.6 Public Furniture and Fittings
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Page 43 and 44: 7.1.4 Working Capital ($0.69 millio
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Page 47: Expenditure level Revenue level Wor
Page 51 and 52: The commercial/industrial propertie
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Page 55 and 56: In preparing the Capital Works prog
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Page 61 and 62: APPENDIX A Budgeted Capital Works S
Page 63 and 64: APPENDIX A Budgeted Statement of Hu
Page 65 and 66: APPENDIX B Rates and Charges 1. Rat
Page 67 and 68: APPENDIX B 1.5 The number of assess
Page 69 and 70: APPENDIX B 1.11 The estimated total
Page 71 and 72: APPENDIX B 2.4 General Rate Having
Page 73 and 74: APPENDIX B General Land; Commercial
Page 75 and 76: APPENDIX B The use of the land with
Page 77 and 78: APPENDIX C Capital Works Program Fo
Page 79 and 80: APPENDIX C Capital Works Area NEW W
Page 81 and 82: Capital Works Program (Detailed) Ca
Page 83 and 84: Capital Works Area Project Descript
Page 85 and 86: Capital Council Works Project Descr
Page 87 and 88: Capital Council Works Project Descr
Page 89 and 90: APPENDIX D D - 1 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTR
Page 91 and 92: APPENDIX E Appendix E - Capital Eva
Page 93 and 94: APPENDIX E For the 2014/2015 financ
Page 95 and 96: APPENDIX F Term Definition Financia
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