Integrated planning and reporting

The council, community and administration each has a unique role and responsibilities for the development of effective and sustainable integrated plans for the local area, and reporting on the progress of those plans.

A successful integrated planning and reporting process will deliver a:

• Strategic Community Plan that clearly links the community's aspirations with the council's vision and long term strategy
• Corporate Business Plan that integrates resourcing plans and specific council plans with the strategic community plan
• clearly stated vision for the future viability of the local area.

The Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework:

• recognises that planning for a local government is holistic in nature and driven by the community
• builds organisational and resource capability to meet community need
• optimises success by understanding the integration and interdependencies between the components
• emphasises performance monitoring so that local governments can adapt and respond to changes in community needs and the business environment.

The Integrated Planning and Reporting Guidelines provide a process that aims to:

• ensure community input is explicitly and reliably generated
• provide the capacity for location-specific planning where appropriate
• update long term objectives with these inputs
• identify the resourcing required to deliver long-term objectives, and
• clearly convey long term financial implications and strategies.

Legislation

All local governments are required to produce a plan for the future under S5.56 (1) of the Local Government Act 1995. 

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