The draft Delivery Program sets out the work that Council proposes to undertake over the next four years as part of the delivery of the community outcomes and goals of the Community Strategic Plan. The first year of the Delivery Program is the Operational Plan.

The Delivery Program is updated annually and includes:

• background on the community’s long term needs and aspirations
• our priorities for the next four years in meeting community needs and aspirations
• details of what our 16 key services provide, their budget, and how service performance is measured
• projects to be delivered by each service in the next four years.

Also included in the delivery program are financial forecasts for the future three years.

The Budget is Council’s planned spending for the financial year. It includes expected income and expenditure for all planned services and infrastructure, as well as ongoing maintenance and depreciation commitments.

The draft Fees and Charges document details what Council proposes to charge for services in 2021/22. This includes regulatory services such as development applications as well as access to other services and facilities such as domestic waste service, hire of halls, entry to the aquatic centres and childcare. Fees and charges are set annually in accordance with Council's Pricing Policy.

Fees generally rise by a modest percentage each year.

We prepare these as part of our integrated planning and reporting obligations under the Local Government Act, 1993 (as amended).

The integrated planning and reporting framework requires every NSW Council to undertake long term planning with their community on services and facilities, informed by plans for finances, assets and the workforce.

The Delivery Program and Operational Plan and Budget (including the Fees and Charges) are part of this framework.

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In 2017 and 2018 Council engaged with the community to develop the Delivery Program 2018-21 which determined the projects that we would priorities over the coming four years.

The total income that can be raised from levying rates on property is capped by the state government based on a determination by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). IPART determined that general income from rates in 2021/22 may be increased by a maximum of 2 percent.

The increase allowed by IPART relates to general income in total and not to an individual ratepayers’ rates.

Rates for individual ratepayers may vary by more or less than the percentage allowable as the new rating structure is implemented with new minimum and ad valorem rates applying.