1 2017 – 2022 (Adopted by Council on 29 May 2017) Garden Route District Municipality’s VISION & MISSION Vision Garden Route, the leading, enabling and inclusive district, characterised by equitable and sustainable development, high quality of life and equal opportunities for all. Mission The Garden Route District Municipality, as a category C local authority, strives to deliver on its mandate through: . Unlocking resources for equitable, prosperous and sustainable development. Provide the platform for coordination of bulk infrastructure planning across the district. Provide strategic leadership towards inclusive / radical / rigourous socio-economic transformation, to address social, economic and spatial injustice. Redress inequalities, access to ensure inclusive services, information and opportunities for all citizens of the district. Initiate funding mobilisation initiatives / programmes, to ensure financial sustainability. Coordinate and facilitate social development initiatives. 2 2017 – 2022 (Adopted by Council on 29 May 2017) Garden Route District Municipality’s STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES Strategic Objective 1 A Skilled Workforce and Communities Strategic Objective 2 Bulk Infrastructure Co-ordination Strategic Objective 3 Financial Viability. Strategic Objective 4 Good Governance. Strategic Objective 5 Growing an inclusive district economy. Strategic Objective 6 Healthy and socially stable communities Strategic Objective 7 Sustainable Environmental Management and Public Safety. 3 4 Garden Route District Municipality is determined as a Category C-municipality with a mayoral executive system. Section 84 of the Municipal Structures Act distinguishes between roles and responsibilities of district municipalities and those of B-municipalities. According to the Act, the Garden Route District Municipality must perform the following functions: (a) Integrated development planning for the district municipality as a whole. (b) Potable water supply systems. (c) Bulk supply of electricity, which includes for the purposes of such supply, the transmission, distribution and, where applicable, the generation of electricity. (d) Domestic waste-water and sewage disposal systems. (e) Solid waste disposal sites, in so far as it relates to - (i) the determination of a waste disposal strategy; (ii) the regulation of waste disposal; (iii) the establishment, operation and control of waste disposal sites, bulk waste transfer facilities and waste disposal facilities for more than one local municipality in the district. (f) Municipal roads which form an integral part of a road transport system for the area of the district municipality as a whole. (g) Regulation of passenger transport services. (h) Municipal airports serving the area of the district municipality as a whole. (i) Municipal health services. (j) Firefighting services serving the area of the district municipality as a whole, which includes- (i) planning, co-ordination and regulation of fire services; (ii) specialised firefighting services such as mountain, veld and chemical fire services; (iii) co-ordination of the standardisation of infrastructure, vehicles, equipment and procedures; (iv) training of fire officers. (k) The establishment, conduct and control of fresh produce markets and abattoirs serving the area of a major proportion of the municipalities in the district. 5 (l) The establishment conduct and control of cemeteries and crematoria serving the area of a major proportion of municipalities in the district. (m) Promotion of local tourism for the area of the district municipality. (n) Municipal public works relating to any of the above functions or any other functions assigned to the district municipality. (o) The receipt, allocation and, if applicable, the distribution of grants made to the district municipality. (p) The imposition and collection of taxes, levies and duties as related to the above functions or as may be assigned to the district municipality in terms of national legislation. Garden Route District Municipality acknowledges its enabling role as facilitator, co- ordinator and capacitator and seeks to achieve integrated, sustainable and equitable social and economic development of its area as a whole by ensuring integrated development planning and promoting bulk infrastructural development and services for the district as a whole, building the capacity of local municipalities in its area to perform their functions and exercise their powers where such capacity is lacking and promoting equitable distribution of resources between the local municipalities in its area to ensure appropriate levels of municipal services within the area. The Garden Route District encompasses a total area of 23 332km² and is constituent of seven Category B-Municipalities within its geographic area, namely: Bitou, Knysna, George, Mossel Bay, Hessequa, Oudtshoorn and Kannaland. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE MAYOR’S FOREWORD ..................................................................................................................... 11 MUNICIPAL MANAGERS OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................. 16 1.1 Municipal Functions, Population and the Environment ........................................................................ 22 1.2 Employment and the Economy ................................................................................................................. 33 1.3 Service Delivery Overview ......................................................................................................................... 38 1.4 Financial Health Overview ......................................................................................................................... 62 1.5 Organisational Development OvervieW .................................................................................................. 63 1.6 Auditor General report ................................................................................................................................ 66 1.7 Statutory Annual Report Process................................................................................................................ 66 CHAPTER 2: POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNANCE ..................................................................... 70 2.1 Composition Of Council ............................................................................................................................. 75 2.2 Administrative Governance ..................................................................................................................... 82 2.3 Intergovernmental Relations ...................................................................................................................... 84 2.4 IDP Participation & Performance Alignment .......................................................................................... 90 2.5 Risk Management ...................................................................................................................................... 90 2.6 ANTI-CORRUPTION AND FRAUD ............................................................................................................... 92 2.7 Supply Chain Management ..................................................................................................................... 93 2.8 Municipal Website ..................................................................................................................................... 96 CHAPTER 3: OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE WITHIN THE ORGANISATION ................................................... 99 3.1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................................... 99 3.2 Performance Management .................................................................................................................... 102 3.3 Service Delivery Performance ............................................................................................................... 104 3.4 Service Provider Strategic Performance .............................................................................................. 116 3.5 Municipal Functions ................................................................................................................................. 117 3.6 Component A: Bulk Infrastructure Planning ......................................................................................... 118 3.7 Component B: Roads and Transport ..................................................................................................... 123 7 3.8 Component C: Planning and Local Economic Development .......................................................... 126 3.9 Component D: Environmental protection ............................................................................................ 150 3.10 Component E: Municipal Health ........................................................................................................... 165 3.11 Component F: Fire Services and Disaster Management ................................................................... 176 3.12 Component G: Corporate Policy Offices and Other Services .......................................................... 218 3.13 Component H: Organisational performance scorecard ................................................................... 245 Chapter 4: ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE ................................................................