City of Casey Annual Report 2018-2019 Annual Report 2018-2019 Contact City of Casey 03 9705 5200 NRS: 133 677 (for the deaf, hearing or speech impaired) TIS: 131 450 (Translating and Interpreting Service) [email protected] casey.vic.gov.au facebook.com/CityofCasey @CityofCasey @CityOfCasey @cityofcaseycouncil PO Box 1000 Narre Warren VIC 3805 Customer Service Centres Cranbourne Customer Service Centre Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre, Shop 156, South Gippsland Highway, Cranbourne Narre Warren Bunjil Place, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren City of Casey Contents Welcome 03 Our people 90 Performance statement 121 Our history 04 Organisational structure 91 Sustainable capacity Council staff 92 indicators 123 vv Our values 05 Our vision and Council Plan Other staff matters 94 Financial performance indicators 128 2017-21 06 Governance, management City snapshot 08 and other information 97 Other information 132 Our Councillors 14 Governance 97 Certification of the Performance Statement 133 The year in review 17 Meetings of Council 98 VAGO Independent CITY OF CASEY Special Committees 99 Message from the Mayor 18 Auditor’s Report 134 Councillor allowances 99 Message from the CEO 20 Financial statements 136 Mayor allowance 99 Financial summary 23 Certification of the ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Major capital works highlights 27 Councillor expenses 100 financial statements 137 Transformation and innovation 33 Code of conduct 100 VAGO Independent Auditor’s Report 138 Environmental initiatives 35 Conflict of interest 101 Compr ehensive Income Community partnerships 37 Governance and management checklist 101 Statement 140 Community services 38 Audit and Risk Committee 104 Balance Sheet 141 Advocacy 40 Internal audit 104 Statement of Developing our neighbourhoods 42 External audit 104 Changes in Equity 142 Bunjil Place turns one 45 Risk management 105 Statement of Cash Flows 143 Community engagement 46 Statutory information 105 Statement of Capital Works 144 Awards for the City of Casey 48 Customer service Notes to the Financial Report 145 Major changes 49 commitments 2018-19 108 Moving forward 49 Development Our performance 51 Contributions Plan 112 Planning and accountability Grants to community groups framework 51 and organisations 2018-19 116 Council Plan 2017-21 52 Strategic Objective 1 53 Strategic Objective 2 56 Strategic Objective 3 62 Strategic Objective 4 66 Strategic Objective 5 70 Strategic Objective 6 76 Strategic Objective 7 80 Strategic Objective 8 84 Contact City of Casey Customer Service Centres 03 9705 5200 [email protected] Cranbourne Customer Service Centre Cranbourne Park Shopping NRS: 133 677 (for the deaf, casey.vic.gov.au hearing or speech impaired) Centre, Shop 156, South Gippsland facebook.com/CityOfCasey Highway, Cranbourne TIS: 131 450 (Translating and Interpreting Service) @CityOfCasey Narre Warren Bunjil Place, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, PO Box 1000 @cityofcaseycouncil Narre Warren Narre Warren VIC 3805 Report of Operations 003 Welcome REPORT OF Welcome to the City of Casey’s Annual Report OPERATIONS 2018-19. The Annual Report 2018-19 is the primary means of informing the community and important stakeholders about Council’s performance during the financial year, assessed against the Council Plan 2017-21 and the Budget 2018-19. The City of Casey is committed to transparent reporting and being accountable to the community. This annual report aims to provide a balanced review of the achievements and challenges of delivering services and infrastructure that our rapidly growing community requires. This annual report also fulfils Council’s responsibilities under the Local Government Act 1989 and other legislation and complies with the Local Government Performance Reporting Framework. Our history 004 005 The City of Casey proudly acknowledges the traditional owners, Our values Casey’s Aboriginal communities and their rich culture, and pays respect to REPORT OF Our organisation’s values are to dream big, OPERATIONS CITY OF CASEY their Elders past, present and future. empower each other, and make our We acknowledge Aboriginal people community proud. These values reflect the as Australia’s first peoples and as the deeply held beliefs about what is important traditional owners and custodians of ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 to Council’s workforce and drives its behaviour. the land on which we work and live. These values reflect Council’s aspirations Council is proud to represent a municipality for how staff, contractors and volunteers with a significant Indigenous community. work together and serve the community. In fact, Casey is home to the largest Our workforce believes in being bold and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander innovative, collaborative and has an population in the south eastern 1,940 unerring focus on service to our community. metropolitan region of Melbourne, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander with approximately 1,940 Aboriginal people calling the City of Casey home and Torres Strait Islander people calling the City of Casey home. As a municipality, the City of Casey was established in 1994 after most of the City of Berwick, much of the City of Cranbourne and a small part of the City of Knox were amalgamated. The name ‘Casey’ was given to the city in recognition of the area’s links with Lord Richard Casey. Our vision and Council Plan 2017-21 In early 2019, after a review of the Council These new strategic objectives reflect Council’s Plan, Council made the decision to refine these desire to better align its strategic direction and eight objectives into three new, better-defined plans and help the community and stakeholders 006 objectives; people driven, a place to prosper better understand what our priorities are for 007 and a high performing organisation. the years ahead. The Liveability in the context of the City of Casey is defined as the City of Casey’s extent to which Casey is safe To achieve this, we are The structure of the strategic objectives and strategies in the Council Plan 2017-21 from 1 July 2019 is as follows: REPORT OF and inclusive, environmentally committed to creating a OPERATIONS CITY OF CASEY vision is balanced with places to play collaborative community and where its growing community with a shared intention – to create is supported by infrastructure, to fulfil the life goals of every affordable housing, a strong individual within an innovative, ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Australia’s most local economy and a economically independent liveable city. connected transport network. and thriving municipality. Strategic objective: Strategic objective: Strategic objective: The Council Plan 2017-21 sets out eight strategic objectives to help us People A place A high performing work towards creating Australia’s most liveable city. These objectives are: driven to prosper organisation 01 02 03 strategies: strategies: strategies: › An inclusive, safe and › The destination for › A leader in applying 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 connected community arts, culture, sport technology and innovation A leader in An inclusive, A Council The A city that A thriving A city An efficient and leisure that attracts › A council whose services › An efficient and applying safe and whose destination sustainably economy with an and visitors and brings technology connected services and for arts, plans and with local accessible effective, and facilities are driven effective customer communities together and community facilities are culture, manages jobs, and customer- by community needs focussed Council with innovation driven by sport and growth while investment well- focussed › A thriving economy with sufficient resources community leisure that protecting and new connected Council with › A city with an accessible needs attracts its diverse industries transport sufficient local jobs, investment to meet priorities and well-connected visitors and landscape network resources and new industries brings to meet transport network communities priorities › A city that sustainably together plans and manages growth while protecting its diverse landscape Who we are City snapshot Population and is expected to grow to 549,200 by 2041. The estimated population The City of Casey is the most populous Our location Melbourne of the City of Casey in 2019 is Local Government Authority (LGA) in Victoria.1 The City of Casey is 356,600 549,200 008 410 square kilometres in area 009 and located 35 kilometres 2019 2041 southeast of Melbourne’s central business district. City of Port Phillip Bay Casey The City of Casey is one of the fastest growing CITY OF CASEY Local Government Areas (LGA) CITY SNAPSHOT in Australia. Casey is also the second largest growing ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 LGA in Victoria. It enjoys well people making it the second largest growing LGA in established urban areas with It is estimated that between Victoria and the fourth largest growing in Australia.2 significant heritage value and June 2018 and June 2019, the municipality grew by a green growth front making Victoria Most of the city’s future growth (61% between Casey a fast changing, vibrant 13,700 2019 and 2041) will occur in Clyde and Clyde North.1 and diverse city to live in. 2019 2041 Our suburbs and wards 4th CLYDE NORTH The City of Casey’s suburbs include: + CLYDE % 01 Beaconsfield (part) 16 Eumemmerring 61 Four Oaks Ward 2nd GROWTH 02 Botanic Ridge 17 Five Ways Councillors: 2 03 Berwick 18 Hallam 04 Blind Bight 19 Hampton Park River Gum Ward 05 Cannons Creek 20