Performance Assessment Assessment Key An informed assessment of how Council performed in 2020/21 against each of the strategic priorities expressed in the Corporate Plan 2017 2022, has been compiled by the Chief Executive Officer and is shown on the following pages.
The following symbols indicate our progress at the end of the 2020/21 financial year:
ACHIEVED
ON TARGET
NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
SCHEDULED LATER IN CORPORATE PLAN CYCLE
IMPACTED BY COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Strategic Priority: STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH • Continue to improve our engagement with the development industry (including prospective developers) to improve planning and development schemes, processes and outcomes. There is confidence in our strong and diverse economy
• Our development assessment timeframes will continue to be our point of difference and amongst the best in the state. • Improve access to Council's road network for heavy vehicle combinations to benefit the region's businesses. • Identify and enable opportunities that facilitate new investment to the region.
We're open for business and offer investment opportunities that are right for our Region
• Identify and enable activities that facilitate the development of local business and the local business hubs including entrepreneurship, side hustles and start-ups. • Health Services staff advocate for a suite of regional health services providing the community with 'whole of life care'; target State, Federal Government and private investment in Health Services in the Western Downs region and promote regional interagency collaboration. • Our community events are well promoted.
We optimise our tourism opportunities, unique experiences and major events
• Value-add to, and enable the growth and development of, tourist markets to increase visitor night stay in the region. • Value-add to and enable the growth and development of the region's Destination Events through strategic stakeholder engagement. • Identify opportunities that attract and retain skilled workers and their families to our region's towns.
Business and industry in our region live local and buy local
Our region is a recognised leader in energy, including clean, green renewable energies
• Provide access to Council's road network for larger agricultural vehicles to benefit local businesses. • Commit, where possible, and within the value for money framework, to spending locally. • Residential and community based Health Services buy local where possible; recruit & attract staff to live local and support local communities.
• Promote the region as an energy transmission infrastructure hub.
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WESTERN DOWNS REGIONAL COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 1 JULY 2020 TO 30 JUNE 2021
