1. Council  Plan - 7 challenges and strategic indicators

In the 2005/2009 the Council set itself 7 challenges that it wanted to focus on during its current term, where it wanted to work towards making a real difference in the city.

The following review lists the results of the strategic indicators that it set itself as well as some achievements made under each of the 7 challenges.   

7 Challenges Review Table

Note that an edited version of this review appears in the 2005/2006 Annual Report.

The 2005/2006 Annual Report has been approved by the Council, and can be viewed on the Annual Report & Meeting web page.

2. 2005/2006 Council Plan initiatives

Approximately 81% of the total 69 initiatives in the 2005/2006 Council Plan have been completed. The balance of initiatives are due to be completed in 2006/2007.

An initiative is a specific task that the organisation wants to focus on to improve service delivery or contribute to achieving the Council Plan objectives.

Please refer to the excerpt from the Port Phillip June 2006 Quarterly Management Report which provides details on completed initiatives and an exceptions report   - June 2006 Council Plan Initiatives Final Progress Report

3. 2005/2006  Key Strategic Activities

The 2005/2006 Key Strategic Activities or top eleven issues for the organisation in 2005/2006 had set performance measures and targets.

The achievement of these targets was audited and will be reported in the 2005/2006 Annual Report as the Performance Statement.

Traditionally the council sets itself challenging targets rather than easy performance targets in order to drive performance.

While this often results in an apparently poorer level of performance than desired, it needs to be kept in mind that the bar was set very high and the results need to be viewed from the perspective of what has actually been achieved which is considered to be impressive and covered in the commentary in the Statement.

While we only achieved 42% of the targets in the performance statement the commentary shows that there has been considerable progress on a number of these matters and that at least 60% of the balance are in train for achievement by early 2007. 2005/2006 Port Phillip Council Performance Statement

The 2005/2006 Annual Report  contains the above information and provides details on the council's achievement.

Year 2 of the 2005 -2009 Council plan is available here Year 2 of the 2005 -2009 Council Plan .

For more information, contact the Corporate Planning and Performance Department via eServices or phone ASSIST on (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713.