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City of Melbourne Annual Report 2005-2006 CITY of MELBOURNE CONTENTS City of Melbourne Annual Report 2005-2006 CITY OF MELBOURNE CONTENTS About this report Performance at a glance From the Lord Mayor 2 From the Chief Executive 5 OUR CITY 6 Our organisation 10 Meet your council 12 Directors and divisions 18 Planning, performing, measuring 20 Sustainability reporting 22 OUR PERFORMANCE 26 1 Connected and accessible city 28 Transport, council works, our websites 2 Innovative and vital business city 34 Local and international business development 3 Inclusive and engaging city 40 Services for the community, events, arts and culture Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games 4 Environmentally responsible city 60 Water, waste, greenhouse gas emissions 5 Well-managed and leading corporation 66 Governance, human resources, public consultations 6 Financially responsible corporation 92 Financial performance, surplus, donations and grants Event calendar 96 Strategic objectives indicator report 98 Performance statement 104 OUR FINANCIALS 112 Understanding our financials 114 Standard statements 117 Financial statements 126 Glossary 172 Index 174 Five-year statistics 177 Cover image: The Travellers, designed by international artist Nadim Karam, is a feature of the City of Melbourne's Sandridge Bridge precinct redevelopment. The sculptures were inspired by Indigenous and migration themes, and each sculpture represents a different period in Melbourne’s history. This project was a collaboration between the City of Melbourne and the Victorian Government. Open here to view a summary of our performance under our strategic objectives vin 2005-06. Connected and 1 accessible city PG. 028 OUR CITY PG. O6 About Melbourne Innovative About the City of Melbourne and vital 2 business city PG. 034 Inclusive and OUR PERFORMANCE PG. 026 3 engaging city PG. 040 Performance under our strategic objectives Events calendar Strategic objectives indicator report Performance statement Environmentally 4 responsible city PG. 060 Well-managed and leading 5 corporation PG. 066 Financially responsible 6 corporation PG. 092 OUR FINANCIALS PG. 112 Council Plan and City Plan Understanding our financials The City of Melbourne’s Council Plan Standard statements 2005-2009 is the guiding document for Financial statements this annual report. Our council plan was developed using our long-term vision for the city, City Plan 2010. Our council plan outlines the strategies we will complete to ensure Melbourne continues to shine as one of the world’s most liveable cities. CITY OF MELBOURNE ABOUT THIS REPORT MELBOURNE IS THE CAPITAL CITY OF VICTORIA, Who we are AUSTRALIA Talk to us Melbourne City Council is the local More information government body responsible for the If you would like more information about municipality of Melbourne. Melbourne any item in this report, we’d love to City Council consists of a lord mayor, hear from you. a deputy lord mayor and seven Sustainability reporting councillors. The organisation also has a Send your questions by email to chief executive, seven directors and Our previous annual report, the City of [email protected] or more than 1,100 staff. Melbourne Annual Report 2004-05, post to: included integrated sustainability Our municipality has more than 65,000 reporting, developed using the Global Corporate Communications residents, more than 12,500 businesses Reporting Initiative’s guidelines. City of Melbourne and more than 328,000 workers. PO Box 1603 The municipality covers 36.5km2 and This year, we are producing a separate Melbourne VIC 3001 includes the central business district, sustainability report, the City of 11 suburbs and precincts, three major Melbourne Sustainability Report Our website, www.melbourne.vic.gov.au watercourses, 315km of roads and 2005-06. Information about this has more information about City of 566.7ha of parkland. document is included here on page 20. Melbourne activities, policies and plans The completed sustainability report will for the future, or you can call the City of be available on the City of Melbourne Melbourne on 61 3 9658 9658. website in November 2006. Our performance matters Feedback We take our performance seriously. It’s A feedback form has been included with up to us to ensure Melbourne reaches Report audit this report. We’d be delighted if you its potential as a capital city, with could take the time to send it back to excellent services, great business Internal controls us. Your valuable comments will be prospects and a thriving community. used in the development of our annual The content of this annual report has report for 2006-07. The feedback form As a capital city local government, been reviewed by relevant managers, is also available online at we must lead by example in our directors, councillors, and the chief www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/annualreport performance, and in our reporting. executive. Preparation and publication We are committed to open, clear of this annual report is the responsibility communication – and to ‘telling it like it is’. of our Corporate Performance Director, Linda Weatherson. A meeting of the Paper and production Melbourne City Council will consider this This report was designed by house Measuring performance annual report in October 2006. mouse design pty ltd, and was printed External audit by Ellikon Fine Printers. This report was Our strategic objectives and key printed on Zanders Mega Matt paper, strategies were set out in our Council Our performance statement (from page made from a combination of recovered Plan 2005-2009. These were used to 104) and our financial report including fibre (50 per cent) and commercially prioritise our activities for 2005-06. the standard statements (from page managed forest (50 per cent). Actions and deliverables relating to these 112) have been approved by the The paper was manufactured using activities were set for every work area Victorian Auditor-General’s office. elemental chlorine-free pulp. Vegetable- and individual within the organisation, to based inks were used for printing. be completed by 30 June 2006. We measure our success by our Our audience achievement of strategies in our council plan. The community, residents, ratepayers, businesses, our staff, our partners and This annual report is part of our government departments and agencies integrated planning framework. Our can all be affected by decisions made council plan sets our objectives and at the City of Melbourne, and all stand strategies; our performance statement to benefit from association with our measures our success; and our annual great city. report presents the results. CITY OF MELBOURNE PERFORMANCE AT A GLANCE Looking ahead Community satisfaction with 1 Connected and economic development accessible city A Southbank Plan has been developed by the Victorian Government in partnership with the City of Melbourne. The plan, to Achievements be launched in July 2006, will guide the Our draft Melbourne Transport Strategy organisation in its mission to make looks at ways to make the most of our Southbank a truly thriving community transport infrastructure to accommodate and a lively centre for art and culture in increased demands in the future. The Melbourne. The plan lists six projects strategy focuses on increasing access and based on six principles for the public reducing congestion, and looks at ways to environment in Southbank, and the City increase cycling, walking and public of Melbourne will be working to help transport use in the city. The draft strategy, make these projects happen in 2006-07 completed in 2005-06, was developed in and beyond. partnership with the Victorian Connected and accessible city Source: Local Government Community Satisfaction Survey. Government’s Department of Infrastructure. Department for Victorian Communities, 2006 More on page 28 The first meeting of the Lord Mayor’s Our customer satisfaction rating for Melbourne-Delhi working party was held economic development has remained with key Indian community steady in 2005-06. The City of Melbourne representatives. The working party 2 Innovative and supports its businesses both locally and provides advice to the Melbourne City overseas, and our commitment to the Council on developing a proposal for a vital business city growth of our city is demonstrated in this strategic alliance between Melbourne and result. Our performance was also rated New Delhi. If successful, this strategic Achievements higher than all other councils surveyed. alliance will create connections and Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall was knowledge-sharing between the two cities. refurbished in 2005-06, giving the heart of Disappointment Fawkner Park has been a centre of our retail centre a new look. Improvements While the Mayors’ Asia-Pacific community activity for the past 140 years, focused on removing clutter and improving Environmental Summit, held in May and in 2005-06, the first Fawkner Park the flexibility of the space for public events. 2006, was a success in promoting Master Plan was developed to guide the Accessible tram stops were also part of the environmental development opportunities, park’s management and development for mall redevelopment. we were unable to attract private sector the next 10 years. sponsors to support this event. Early More than 80 mayors and local interest in the summit was not converted government representatives came to Melbourne’s Carlton Gardens and Royal into sponsorship dollars. Exhibition Building were placed on the Melbourne for the Mayors’ Asia-Pacific World Heritage List in July 2004. Activities Environmental Summit in May 2006. The Looking ahead
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