Yearly planning and reporting

The Community Strategic Plan is the highest-level plan that a council will prepare and covers a 10-year period. The purpose of the plan is to identify the community’s main priorities and aspirations for the future and to identify strategies for achieving these goals.

The Delivery Program is a statement of how Council aims to achieve the outcomes developed by the community in the Community Strategic Plan. It is adopted for a four-year period to coincide with the local government elections.

At the end of the Council term, which is 4 years, progress is reviewed and reported to the community in the End-of-Term Report. 

The Long-Term Financial Plan (LTFP) outlines how Council will fund its Community Strategic Plan objectives and informs the community of Council’s overall projected financial sustainability over the next ten (10) years.

The Operational Plan is a one-year plan developed to implement the operational activities that will achieve the strategic directions set out in the four-year Delivery Program and longer term vision of the Community Strategic Plan.

It spells out the individual projects and activities that will be undertaken each year.

The Resourcing Strategy consists of Workforce Management Planning, Asset Management Planning and Long-Term Financial Planning and provides an opportunity for Council to undertake an analysis of current and future capacity to undertake the requirements of the Community Strategic Plan, Delivery Program and Operational Plan.

These three documents are intrinsically linked and support the ongoing implementation of the the Delivery Program and Operational Plan. If shortfalls are identified in the Resourcing Strategy it can have flow-on effects, creating longer term issues. The three documents influence and support each other.

Resourcing Strategy(PDF, 14MB)

Workforce Management Plan(PDF, 9MB)

Long-Term Financial Plan

Asset Management Strategy