Holroyd City Council

City Management Plan & Budget

Council prepares an annual management plan that sets out Council's goals, objectives and performance indicators. This plan covers a period of at least three years and includes the annual budget with associated fees and charges.

City Strategic Plan

The City Strategic Plan for Holroyd embodies the Council's Charter by which it sets out the Council's vision for the next four years and beyond. It focuses on the challenges facing the City in the years to come and how the Council plans to meet the challenges.

City Operational Plan

The City Operational Plan contains the principal activities that Council proposes to conduct along with the budget, objectives and performance targets, the means by which these targets will be achieved, and performance assessed. The City Operational Plan also contains the 2009/2010 Fees and Charges.

'20 Plus' Asset Management Program

In 2007/2008 Council implemented a major long term infrastructure initiative titled the '20 Plus' Asset Management Program. The Plan provides a major funding source to help address the growing gap that has emerged between the funding required to effectively manage Council's considerable portfolio of infrastructure assets and available funding.

To help address the funding gap Council introduced in 2007/2008 a 'Special Infrastructure Rate' along with a Stormwater Levy. The 2008/2009 financial year will be the second year in which the two will be levied.

In 2008/2009 Council will generate approximately $2.2 million from the Special Infrastructure Rate and the Stormwater Levy. The funds raised will be spent in line with the '20 Plus' Asset Management Plan.

Quarterly Management Plan Reviews

Every two months at the end of each quarter the General Manager reports to Council about how the performance targets set by Council's management plan are being met.

Past Management Plans

Draft Management Plans

Section 402 of the Local Government Act provides that during each year, a Council must prepare a draft Management Plan with respect to the Councils activities for at least the next 3 years, and the Councils revenue policy for the next year.

Section 405 of the Local Government Act 1993 preserves the rights of residents to comment on the draft Management Plan before it is finally adopted by Council.

The Council must give public notice of its draft Management Plan after it is prepared with a period of public exhibition being not less than 28 days.

The public notice must specify that submissions may be made to the Council at any time during the period of public exhibition.

During the period of public exhibition, the Council must have for inspection at its office (and at such other places as it may determine) a map which shows those parts of its area to which each category and sub-category of the ordinary rate and each special rate included in the draft Management Plan applies.

The draft Management Plan must contain the following statements with respect to the Councils activities for the period to which it relates:

  • A statement of the principal activities that the Council proposes to conduct
  • A statement of the objectives and performance targets for each of its principal activities
  • A statement of the means by which the Council proposes to achieve these targets
  • A statement of the manner in which the Council proposes to assess its performance in respect of each of its principal activities
  • Statements with respect to such other matters as may be prescribed by the regulations.

The statement of principal activities must include the following:

  • Capital works projects to be carried out by the Council
  • Services to be provided by the Council
  • Asset replacement programs to be implemented by the Council
  • Sales of assets to be conducted by the Council
  • Activities of a business or commercial nature to be undertaken by the Council
  • Human resource activities (such as training programs) to be undertaken by the Council
  • Activities to properly manage, develop, protect, restore, enhance and conserve the environment in a manner that is consistent with and promotes the principles of ecologically sustainable development
  • Activities in response to, and to address priorities identified in, the Council's current comprehensive report as to the state of the environment and any other relevant reports
  • Programs to be undertaken by the Council to implement its equal employment opportunity management plan.

The draft Management Plan also incorporates the Council's draft Budget for the next twelve months.

The following statements must be included with respect to the Councils revenue policy for the next year:

  • A statement containing a detailed estimate of the Council's income and expenditure
  • A statement with respect to each ordinary rate and each special rate proposed to be levied
  • A statement with respect to each charge proposed to be levied
  • A statement of the types of fees proposed to be charged by the Council and the amounts of each such fee
  • A statement of the Councils pricing policy with respect to the goods and services provided by it
  • A statement of the amounts or rates proposed to be charged for the carrying out by the Council, of work on private land
  • A statement of the amounts of any proposed borrowings (other than internal borrowing), the sources from which they are proposed to be borrowed and the means by which they are proposed to be secured
  • Statements with respect to such other matters as may be prescribed by the regulations.

The statement with respect to an ordinary or special rate proposed to be levied must include the following particulars:

  • The ad valorem amount (the amount in the dollar) of the rate
  • Whether the rate is to have a base amount and, if so:
  • the amount in dollars of the base amount, and
  • the percentage, in conformity with Section 500, of the total amount payable by the levying of the rate, or, in the case of the rate, the rate for the category or sub-category concerned of the ordinary rate, that the levying of the base amount will produce.
  • The estimated yield of the rate
  • In the case of a special rate the purpose for which the rate is to be levied
  • The categories or sub-categories of land in respect of which the Council proposes to levy the rate.

The statement with respect to each charge proposed to be levied must include the following particulars:

  • The amount or rate per unit of the charge
  • The differing amounts for the charge, if relevant
  • The minimum amount or amounts of the charge, if relevant
  • The estimated yield of the charge.

A draft Management Plan must include a statement containing a general estimate of the Councils income and expenditure for the second and subsequent years for which the draft Management Plan is prepared.

The statement of fees and the statement of the pricing policy need not include information which could confer a commercial advantage on a competitor of the Council.

In deciding on the final Management Plan to be adopted, the Council must take into consideration any submissions that have been made by residents concerning the draft Management Plan prepared and exhibited.