Mayor Keith Campbell - Governance Portfolio Report - 20 September 2017

Corporate Plan 2018 / 2023

In the coming weeks, Council will commence the development of a new Corporate Plan.  Council is constrained by over seventy different pieces of legislation with a primary piece being the Local Government Act 2009.

The Corporate Plan, a legislative requirement under section 104(5)(a)(i) of the Local Government Act 2009,  articulates Council’s strategic direction and states the performance indicators for measuring Council’s progress in achieving the community vision over a five (5) year period. 

The current Corporate Plan will expire at the end of 2017/18 and Council is legislatively required to ensure the new corporate plan is prepared and adopted in enough time to allow preparation and adoption of the budget for 2018/19. This means that the draft plan will be prepared over the coming months with anticipation that community consultation on the draft plan will commence early 2018.

The Corporate Plan is used to develop Council’s annual operational plans and budgets for the period covered by the Plan. An assessment of Council’s performance in implementing its Corporate and Operational Plans is monitored with quarterly operational plan reviews and reported in Council’s Annual Report. Both the Annual Reports and quarterly operational reviews are publicly available on Council’s website