Local Government Workplan Vote: 551 Sembabule District Structure of Workplan Foreword Executive Summary A: Revenue Performance and Plans B: Summary of Department Performance and Plans by Workplan C: Draft Annual Workplan Outputs for 2015/16 D: Details of Annual Workplan Activities and Expenditures for 2015/16 Page 1 Local Government Workplan Vote: 551 Sembabule District Foreword Sembabule became a District in 1997. It has two counties – Lwemiyaga with ntuusi and Lwemiyaga Sub Counties and Mawogala with Mateete Town council, Sembabule Town council and Mateete, Lwebitakuli, Mijwala and Lugusulu sub counties hence eight lower local governments. In line with the Local Government Act 1997 CAP 243, which mandates the District with the authority to plan for the Local Governments, this Budget for the Financial Year 2014-2015 has been made comprising of; The Forward, Executive Summary, and a) Revenue Peformance and Pans, b) Summary of Departmental Performance and Plans by Work plan and c) Approved Annual Work plan Outputs for 2014-2015 which have been linked to the Medium Expenditure Plan and the District Development Plan 1011-2015. and this time the District staff list. We hope this will enable elimination of ghost workers and salary payments by 28th of every month. In line with the above, the Budget is the guide for giving an insight to the district available resources and a guide to attach them to priority areas that serve the needs of the people of Sembabule District in order to improve on their standard of living with more focus to the poor, women, youth, the elderly and people with disabilities (PWDs) although not neglecting the middle income and other socioeconomic denominations by providing improver Primary health care services, Pre Primary, Primary, secondary and tertiary Education, increasing agriculture productivity by giving farm inputs and advisory services and provision of infrastructure mainly in roads and water sectors among others . On behalf of the people of Sembabule district, I have this pleasure to commend the Central Government for the previous budget support that has enabled delivery of development services and infrastructures to residents of Sembabule district and the pledged future support. I thank the political leadership of this district mainly the members of parliament, the Resident District Commissioner, members of the District Council and the Lower Local Governments for the continued supportive roles they made to complement the tireless effort of my technical team both at the district and lower Local governments under the headship of the Chief administrative Officer in preparing this budget. I extend my gratitude to our Development partners mainly the donor, NGO's and all civil society organizations for their complement to the effort of the district and central government in improving the standards of living of the people of Sembabule district. My strong conviction is that this budget will ably allocate funds and guide the District in the Planning and Budgeting process for the financial year 2014/2015 and in the medium term in improving the quality of life of the residents of Sembabule. For God and My Country, ……………………………….. Dr. MUHUMUZA ELLY DISTRICT CHAIRPERSON/SEMBABULE Page 2 Local Government Workplan Vote: 551 Sembabule District Executive Summary Revenue Performance and Plans 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Receipts by End Proposed Budget Dec UShs 000's 1. Locally Raised Revenues 503,178 200,043 524,585 2a. Discretionary Government Transfers 2,314,228 860,041 2,057,666 2b. Conditional Government Transfers 15,516,659 6,930,545 14,367,389 2c. Other Government Transfers 2,044,325 1,311,016 1,430,571 3. Local Development Grant 352,730 176,173 362,730 4. Donor Funding 292,038 85,291 90,130 Total Revenues 21,023,158 9,563,109 18,833,071 Revenue Performance in 2014/15 The District received a cumulative performance of 9,469,568 ,000 by end of Q2, realizing 45% of the annual budget. Good performance is attributed to other government transfers especially the National census grant from UBOS. However this is a non-recurrent activity which occurs once in ten years. Also Local development grant and discretionary transfers had good performance of 25% except for the grants of tertiary salaries, secondary salaries, and Primary teachers’ salaries performed below average due non recruitment of staff delayed by the authority to recruit from Ministry of Public service. And gratuity for elected leaders, DSC salaries’ performance is attributed to non- payment of gratuity scheduled to be paid in June 2015. Locally raised revenues have improved shooting 40% this is attributed to local service tax that is all collected in the second quarter of the year ie July to Oct. However, other licenses, market gates, animal husbandry, land fees didn’t perform well as the revenue collectors remit bi annually. Expenditure was 84% of the 34% cumulative receipts which is good however there were some delays in awarding contracts. Similarly contractors commenced work late and most of the payments will be done in the 3rd quarter. Non recruitment of staff to fill vacant posts which were budgeted for under approved 201415 budget affected some wage grants performance below. Similarly the district received an authority to replace some vacant posts and an advert has been run. Planned Revenues for 2015/16 The revenues for FY 15/ 16 are forecasted to go below the previous financial year ie 14/15 as per the analysis below; The Central Government Grants are forecasted to go below by 7%. This is attributed to a decrease in IPFs for the sectors below; Agriculture sector due to reallocation of NAADS grant from Local Government to Operation Wealth Creation controlled by the NAADS secretariat. Education Sectors:, attributed to reduction in IPFs of wages of Primary salaries, secondary salaries, Tertiaries Inspection grant, Non wage community polytechnics .Also a decrease is cited in transfer to Urban Unconditional grant wage which is considered to be insufficient to cater for even the current staff in post. Therefore a need for increase in the IPF for FY 15/16. However the following grants in the sectors of District discretionary are forecasted to increase by 4%. Locally raised revenues are forecasted to go above by 4% .This is attributed to the new policy of enforcement of ground rent, inspection fees, recruitment of new teachers for increased local service tax, animal husbandry and land fees attributed to the district setting up a land office at the District headquarters. Expenditure Performance and Plans 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 1a Administration 997,223 425,548 887,666 2 Finance 656,835 321,643 575,891 3 Statutory Bodies 516,975 231,445 823,218 4 Production and Marketing 877,956 264,252 564,097 5 Health 1,881,652 835,312 1,641,131 6 Education 12,780,376 5,397,186 11,515,386 Page 3 Local Government Workplan Vote: 551 Sembabule District Executive Summary 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 7a Roads and Engineering 1,032,917 332,145 1,109,332 7b Water 808,476 218,276 788,050 8 Natural Resources 205,053 70,876 223,670 9 Community Based Services 546,566 95,714 533,279 10 Planning 652,944 562,900 104,066 11 Internal Audit 66,184 18,160 67,284 Grand Total 21,023,158 8,773,457 18,833,071 Wage Rec't: 13,592,703 5,773,273 12,585,097 Non Wage Rec't: 4,939,170 2,498,519 4,670,956 Domestic Dev't 2,192,145 464,419 1,486,889 Donor Dev't 299,140 37,245 90,130 Expenditure Performance in 2014/15 Administration The deputy CAO was supported to travel to China for a study visit, the number of LG staffing positions filled is an average of 73% where traditional staffing is 62%, Primary Health Care is 85% and primary education 80%. One monitoring visit was carried out and a report produced. Finance Annual Performance contract report submitted late by 25 days, value of local service tax below planned due to non- receipt of LST for residents in sembabule but not employees of sembabule which MoFPED used to remit before decentralisation of payroll. Date of approval of annual work plan fulfilled as planned and earlier by 5 days in relation to the new budget cycle date of 30/06. Date of submitting draft final account to auditor was met. Statutory There targeted number of land applications (registration, renewal and lease extension) was 30 No for the quarter and was achieved. One land board meeting was held in steady of two that were targeted and this was because all the application received had been reviewed. One 1 LGPAC Reports on internal audit reports examined and produced and 1 report on auditor General’s report reviewed. Also 1 LG PAC report was produces as planned for the quarter. Production The major activity achieved in the quarter was Livestock vaccination where 250,000 targeted for quarter and 15,000 was achieved. This was followed by the sensitization meetings on BBW control where 400 farmers received information on the BBW control practices compared to a quarterly target of 500 while 300,000 of the expected 380,000 received elite coffee seedlings for planting. There was however low performance under commercial sector due to late release of funds. Other achievements outside the target include distribution of 20 heifers to farmers and one seminar for vermin control. However, the general performance of the sector is limited by under staffing due to termination of contracts for NAADS staff.