Local Government Workplan Vote: 502 Apac 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: 502 Apac District Foreword The Annual workplan and Budget is a requirement by all spending agencies meant to facilitate Budgetting processes. The focus of this document has been put on output budgetting and resource based planning for more effective and efficient service delivery to the community. The interventions have been directed to accelerate production, increase output, create employment especially in production sector and bringing about competitiveness in order to achieve rapid socio-economic recovery and development in the District. Local Governments have beeen adviced to use IPFs for last Financial year which makes planning intermittent and disturbing. more Central transfers to Local Governmets. Finally, I wish to thank all Development Partners for their continued support to us. HON. OKAE BOB - CHAIRMA LC V - APAC DISTRICT LOCAL GVERNMENT Page 2 Local Government Workplan Vote: 502 Apac 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 431,000 283,052 421,000 2a. Discretionary Government Transfers 3,309,436 1,069,666 2,711,373 2b. Conditional Government Transfers 20,122,940 9,936,680 25,083,393 2c. Other Government Transfers 7,053,716 2,961,620 6,819,844 3. Local Development Grant 669,133 334,264 719,133 4. Donor Funding 3,173,600 14,320 3,173,600 Total Revenues 34,759,825 14,599,602 38,928,343 Revenue Performance in 2014/15 The District by the end of first quarter of the Financial year realised the following revenues: 1 - Local revenue..Shs 141,052,000/= 2 - Dscreatinary Gov't Transfers Shs 529,760,000/=, 3 - Conditional Grant of Shs 4,144,871,000/=, 4 - Other Gov't transfers of Shs 968,175,000/= , 5 - Local Development grant of Shs 167,283,000/=, 6 - Donor funds of Shs 14,320,000/=. This therefore brings the total amount of revenue received in the firstquarter of the year to Shs 5,965,461,000/=. There was underperformance in local revenue collection and donor funds. Otherwise Gov't grants were received as per plans. Planned Revenues for 2015/16 During Financial year 2015/16 The District Budget is estimated and forecast to be at UGX 38,928,343,000. the estimated revenue represent anincrease from the prior year Budget by a substantial amount of UGX 4,168,518,000. the increase is due to the inclusion of IPF figures for gratuity and pension of both civil servants and teachers whose payments have beeen decentralised effective july 2015. There is also a small increase in the ammounts to be realised from development Partners notably DANIDA for improvement of the roads, and orther government releases like NUSAF II local Revenue projection for FY 2015/16 has decreased by Shs 10,000,000/= we have identified new revenue sources in Fisheries,forestry and creation of new markets/landing sites, Central Government conditionalTrasnfer is have also increased. Donor funds have been maintained as per Final IPFs for Financial year 2014/15 and the third Budget call circular for financial year 2014/15 from Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development..The total Budget estimate for 2014/15 stands at Shs 34,759,825,000/= . Expenditure Performance and Plans 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec 1a Administration 5,072,530 1,048,142 6,199,116 2 Finance 978,910 247,014 1,397,813 3 Statutory Bodies 625,901 312,286 5,039,939 4 Production and Marketing 859,229 250,723 583,869 5 Health 6,015,784 2,003,512 6,249,267 6 Education 13,681,716 6,134,337 14,035,862 7a Roads and Engineering 4,569,481 2,169,731 3,123,571 7b Water 897,116 352,810 887,116 8 Natural Resources 197,197 33,020 197,197 9 Community Based Services 724,286 121,558 724,286 10 Planning 1,024,452 623,141 387,084 11 Internal Audit 113,223 36,892 103,223 Page 3 Local Government Workplan Vote: 502 Apac District Executive Summary 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Actual Proposed Budget Expenditure by UShs 000's end of Dec Grand Total 34,759,825 13,333,167 38,928,343 Wage Rec't: 15,800,108 7,281,120 20,323,183 Non Wage Rec't: 6,960,055 3,153,414 6,966,371 Domestic Dev't 8,826,062 2,885,053 8,465,190 Donor Dev't 3,173,600 13,580 3,173,600 Expenditure Performance in 2014/15 The District spent a total of Shs 4,102,561,000/= of which Shs 2,563,260,000/= on wages for Technical staff both atDistrict and LLGs, Teachers and Health workers , Shs 1,250,258,000/= on reccurent expenses and Shs 275,463,000/= on development programmes . Planned Expenditures for 2015/16 The District has estimated total expenditures at Shs 38,928,343,000/=(11% indecrease) this increase is due to recruitment of more primary school teachers in the education department raising their wage bill by 9% as compared to the one for last financial year. The roads sector allocation also rose by 31% due to increased fundin by DANIDA. Community Development sector had an increase of 18% due to increased funding from SAGE and other donors to the sector. Planning unit has adecrease in its allocation due to reduction in Unicef contribution to the sector. The wage bill for the entire district has increased by 4% from the previous budget, Nonwage has decreased by a smaller percentage. Domestic Development grant has increased by 9% The funds have been allocated to the eleven departments for the implementation of the district planned activities as follows: spend greatly in the sectors of Education, Health, roads & water and Production and marketing since these are key areas of development in any community. Challenges in Implementation 1 - In adequate human capacity in local governments especially in LLG. 2 - Frequent structural and institutional changes and challenges which limit services delivery. 3 - Low local revenue which makes LG’s heavily dependent on central Gov’t transfers. 4 - Weak Coordination amongst sectors and lower local governments for effective implementation of programmes. 5 - Inadequate capacity to plan and manage disasters that occur in the district. 6- Low motivation, remuneration of civil servants, Poor road conditions which was made warseby the recent floods inadequate infrastructure limiting community access to productive land , increasing cost of production and access to markets and social services, inadequate and limited supply of electricity that hinders promotion of value addition and food processing, inadequate skilled manpower and understaffing, negative community attitudes and cultural practices that impact negatively on health seeking behavior and access to education, high population growth rate which is slightly above the national average, boarder conflicts,Negative atitude by the Hotel Owners to levy Local Hotel Tax, low rates of Local Service tax.Understaffing especially agricultural advisery Service Providers, Poor Transport means at sub County level,inadequate operation funding at all levels Page 4 Local Government Workplan Vote: 502 Apac District A. Revenue Performance and Plans 2014/15 2015/16 Approved Budget Receipts by End Proposed Budget of Dec UShs 000's 1. Locally Raised Revenues 431,000 283,052 421,000 Liquor licences 12,000 3,000 12,000 Other Fees and Charges 32,000 28,200 32,000 Other Court Fees 6,000 2,000 6,000 Park Fees 19,000 9,950 19,000 Miscellaneous 30,000 21,100 30,000 Market/Gate Charges 30,000 23,900 30,000 Property related Duties/Fees 8,000 8,400 8,000 Public Health Licences 8,000 2,960 8,000 Registration (e.g. Births, Deaths, Marriages, etc.) Fees 8,000 6,800 8,000 Registration of Businesses 12,000 10,600 12,000 Lock-up Fees 6,000 4,750 6,000 Other licences 8,000 5,800 8,000 Local Hotel Tax 8,000 3,000 8,000 Land Fees 12,000 6,600 12,000 Inspection Fees 8,000 3,000 8,000 Group registration 4,000 3,000 4,000 Fees from Hospital Private Wings 12,000 0 12,000 Business licences 12,000 5,800 12,000 Application Fees 24,000 8,400 24,000 Animal & Crop Husbandry related levies 12,000 3,000 12,000 Agency Fees 40,000 16,000 40,000 Advertisements/Billboards 30,000 8,000 30,000 Local Service Tax 90,000 98,792 80,000 2a. Discretionary Government Transfers 3,309,436 1,069,666 2,711,373 District Unconditional Grant - Non Wage 619,431 309,716 657,841 District Equalisation Grant 98,975 49,488 0 Transfer of District Unconditional Grant - Wage 2,190,009 509,952 1,902,956 Transfer of Urban Unconditional Grant - Wage 250,387 125,194 18,042 Urban Unconditional Grant - Non Wage 135,669 67,834 132,534 Urban Equalisation Grant 14,966 7,482 0 2b. Conditional Government Transfers 20,122,940 9,936,680 25,083,393 Conditional transfers to DSC Operational Costs 47,033 23,516 47,033 Conditional transfers to Councillors allowances and Ex- Gratia for LLGs 115,493 12,000 151,854 Conditional Transfers for Non Wage Technical & Farm Schools 160,984 80,492 98,000 Conditional Grant to Women Youth and Disability Grant 13,130 6,564 13,130 Conditional Grant to Tertiary Salaries 444,244 222,122 266,931 Conditional Grant to SFG 704,342 352,170 563,290 Conditional Grant to Secondary Salaries 1,303,459 651,730 1,516,281 Conditional Grant to Secondary Education 737,085 368,776 605,022 Conditional Grant to Primary Salaries 9,128,722 4,564,360 9,213,757 Conditional Grant to Primary Education 854,472 407,953 969,535 Conditional Grant to PHC Salaries 3,374,901 1,734,995 3,065,343 Conditional Grant to PHC - development 380,154 190,078 328,454 Conditional transfers to Production and Marketing 191,532 95,766 207,053 Conditional transfers to Contracts Committee/DSC/PAC/Land Boards, 51,729 25,864 51,729 etc.