Interesting Facts

Our aim is to safeguard public health, welfare, and safety by ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, Council policies and bylaw. This includes:

Dealing with animal control, including dog registration and control, acting as pound keepers, and dealing with wandering / straying stock
Monitoring of Resource Consents and ensuring compliance with Resource Management Act requirements
Dealing with illegally dumped rubbish
Removing abandoned vehicles from Council's roads
Addressing residential smoke nuisance
Inspecting properties with problematic on-site wastewater systems
Dealing with hazardous substances
Undertaking sanitary surveys/water testing
Processing Certificate of Public Use applications and inspections
Safeguarding Environmental Health
Inspecting food premises
Reporting on liquor licensed premises
Investigating health nuisance, food related illnesses and notifiable infectious diseases
Noise control
Parking control and enforcement
Enforcement of other council bylaws
(e.g. Skateboarding).

What has changed since the LTCCP

There are no significant changes to the FIELD SERVICES priorities since the publication of the 2009/19 LTCCP.

Highlights of Performance
Number of Performance Measures	5 2008/09	8 2009/10	8 2010/11
Achieved Not Achieved	80% 20%	50% 50%	50% 50%

Performance 2009/10 vs. 2010/11 - is neutral

Statement of Service Performance

For FIELD SERVICES the following pages detail:

Service performance information provides the actual achievements, issues and challenges going forward for each performance measure against the Annual Plan 2010/11.
Financial performance including comparisons against budget 2010/11.

FYI: Key symbols are used to identify each measure contributing to Community Outcomes. For more information on Community Outcomes see the Community Outcomes Diagram.