Activities of the Council and performance targets
At least once every three years, Council is required under the Local Government Act 2002, to produce a Long Term Council Community Plan. The Plan covers a period of 10 years. It details the activities of Council, sets the performance targets for each of those activities for the first three years of the Plan, and then outlines what may be done in the following seven years. It also provides financial estimates for the ten-year period and shows how those costs will be funded.
Full consultation and community involvement was undertaken during the latter part of 2005 to formulate the outcomes that the community wanted included in this Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP).
Audit New Zealand gave the following opinion on Council's Long Term Council Community Plan:
"In our opinion the LTCCP of Regional Council dated 27 June 2006 provides a reasonable basis for long term integrated decision-making by the Regional Council and for participation in decision-making by the public and subsequent accountability to the community about the activities of the Regional Council..."
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Click here to download the 2006-2016 Long Term Council Community Plan (PDF, 792KB)