Orange City Council on track to meet goals
Orange Mayor John Davis has congratulated Orange City Council staff for their efforts in meeting key corporate goals.
According to a report put to the latest council meeting, Orange City Council has achieved all but six of its goals for the end of the June 2016 quarter.
There were about 150 tasks the Council aimed to achieve by the end of the quarter. Of those only three were not completed or had not been started.
Of those three, two of them were stalled only because outside funding, needed for the project, could not be secured.
In this setting a ‘task’ can include a goal such as :
- communicating with the community by ‘ensuring the council maintain an internet and social media prescence.’ The report stated that the council’s Facebook likes had grown during the quarter by 13.5% and there’d been more than 200,000 visits to the council website.
- delivering an annual performing arts program. According to the report, the Civic Theatre hosted 40 performances during the quarter attended by 10,789 people.
“The goals are the checklist that the council staff use to make sure the aims agreed in the big-picture Community Strategic Plan are spelt out in measureable, practical goals,” Mayor John Davis said.
“It shows that the Council is meeting its obligations to the community”.
“Each quarter this goals-report is a summary of where the Council is at in terms of completing the tasks it said it would, and whether those tasks are on time.”
The report uses green, amber and red traffic light symbols to show whether goals have been achieved. The report, acknowledged at last week’s Council meeting, shows only three tasks were in the ‘red light’ category and another three were in the ‘amber light’ category.
Amber meant the task was in progress and not yet completed.
“Because of the huge quantity of services delivered, council staff realise that there’ll be a range of community reactions to the work of a council from the community. This report is a reminder that staff are getting a lot of things right.”
“The community can be proud of the team-work and good management to ensure the ratepayers dollars are being spent where it should be,” Cr Davis said.
The highlights for the quarter included:
- New fitness/gym equipment installed in Moulder Park catering for accessibility needs.
- Link bridge over Ploughmans Creek creating useful cycle link in Belair.
- Development application approved for the subdivision of the land purchased for therectangular playing field.
- Lake Canobolas Mountain Bike Track open and fully operational.
- Gallery exhibited “Best in Show: Dogs in Australian Art” featuring 80 works with some 8000 visitors to the Gallery
- Completion of the Orange Regional Museum building.
- Delivery of 4780 meals as part of the Meals on Wheels program.
- Occupancy rate of 84.2% at Council’s Child Care Centres.
- Airport expansion project finalised.
- 132 development applications determined.
- Suma Park Dam upgrades performing well.
ACCESSIBILITY GYM: Anson Street School students try out the accessibility gym at Moulder Park.
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