Reading Council's Statements of Service Performance

Council has focused on ensuring our community receives a clear and readable report. Service performance and financial information is divided into three sections which contains the following information:

1. at a GLANCE

  • Core Activities: Basic information and important statistics to give you some background on activity.

  • Interesting Facts: These sections explain the reason why Council undertakes each activity and outline Council's broad vision for what it is seeking to achieve.

  • Highlights of Performance: Percentage of performance measures achieved and not achieved in 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11.

2. STATEMENTS OF SERVICE PERFORMANCE

  • Community Outcomes: Key symbols are used to identify each measure contributing to Community Outcomes - public safety, public health, transportation, environment, education, training and business opportunities, services that support communities, and culture and heritage. For more information on Community Outcomes see the Community Outcomes Diagram.

  • Measures and Targets: This refers to the Council initiatives and how this impacts on levels of service provision set in the LTCCP 2009/19.

  • Results, Achievements/Issues and Challenges: Shown are the results for 2009/10 and 2010/11, actual achievements and issues identified in 2010/11. Also challenges Council advised in 2009/10 and challenges going forward for 2010/11 are explained to give the community a two year view.

3. FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR EACH GROUP ACTIVITY

  • Financial Summary:
    A high level view of income and expenditure for each activity. Depreciation and Interest are shown separately in line with the main accounting statements.

  • Variance to the Annual Plan 2010/11:
    Explanations for the major under and over spends incurred against the Annual Plan 2010/11 budget for the activity.

  • Key Capital Projects:
    The table outlines the different types of capital expenditure incurred by each activity.

  • Significant Acquisitions and Replacement of Assets
    Key projects of significant value within each activity. The significance of value will change dependant upon the activity.

 

Key Colours used for Activity Groups

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