INTEGRATED PLANNING AND REPORTING

What Is Integrated Planning And Reporting

Legislated by the Local Government Act 1993, the Integrated Planning and Reporting framework allows NSW Councils to draw their plans together, to understand how they interact and inform each other, and to get the maximum benefit from their efforts by planning holistically for the community’s future.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

The Integrated Planning and Reporting framework allows Maitland City Council to:

• integrate the community’s vision and priorities into strategies and plans

• support our community and stakeholders to play an active role in the shaping future of their community

• plan resources to support the delivery our vision and priorities

• maintain accountability and transparency through regular reporting.

At Maitland City Council, the IPR framework comprises of the Community Strategic Plan, Delivery Program and Operational Plan.

HOW WE WILL DELIVER MAITLAND +10

Our community’s vision

Maitland +10, our Community Strategic Plan, is the highest level plan that Maitland prepares. Its purpose is to identify the community’s main priorities and aspirations for the future and to plan strategies for achieving these. Maitland +10 guides all other Maitland strategies and plans.

Delivery Program

Our commitment of delivery to the community

The Delivery Program is Council’s commitment to the community about what will be delivered during the term in office, outlining the principal activities to be undertaken to implement the strategies to achieve Maitland +10.

OPERATIONAL PLAN Our plan for action

Our action plan for achieving the community’s priorities outlined in Maitland+10 and the Delivery Program. Our Operational Plan is prepared each year and shows the individual actions, projects and activities to be undertaken. It includes Council’s annual budget, Statement of Revenue Policy and fees and charges.

HOW WILL WE RESOURCE IT? RESOURCING STRATEGY

Our resources to deliver Maitland +10

Clearly shows how council will resource its priorities. The Resourcing Strategy includes three interrelated elements:

• Financials - Long Term Financial Planning

• People - Workforce Management Planning

• Assets - Asset Management Planning

Reporting To Our Community

Delivery indicators and operational measures will help us understand how well we are performing. They also support evidence based decision making to inform other stages in our planning cycle.

• Community indicators - measures the wellbeing of our city and community.

• Delivery indicators - measures the highlevel impact of our service delivery on our city and community.

• Operational measures - measures the impact of our programs and services.

We use a variety of reporting documents to outline our progress in towards achieving the actions of the Operational Plan, Delivery Program objectives and community outcomes from Maitland +10.

• Annual Report The report outlines the achievements in implementing our Delivery Program.

• Six monthly progress report Reports on how Council is tracking against its commitments made in the Delivery Program.

• State of the City Reports on the term of the previous council’s, tracking progress against Maitland +10.