Your Annual Plan - What is it?

• It contains the annual budget and funding impact statement for the 2008/2009 year.
• It identifies and explains any variations from the annual budget and funding impact statement included in our Long-Term Council Community Plan 2006-2016 (LTCCP)

What does it look like?

• The Annual Plan includes the variances between the budget for 2008/2009 as opposed to the budget set out in the LTCCP.
• It includes budgets for the 2008/2009 financial year.
• It includes a funding impact statement which explains the revenue and financing mechanisms to be used to cover our estimated expenses in 2008/2009. Essentially this means how we calculate the rates.

How does the Annual Plan affect you?

• The planned projects for the next year will be paid for by rates, reserve funds, depreciation and other funding.
• For 2008/2009, rates will be increasing by an average of 8.8% to pay for maintenance and capital work.

The Annual Plan is published in the Adobe Reader format. You will need to install the Adobe Reader program on your computer in order to read the plan. If you do not already have Adobe Reader installed you can download it here

Due to its size the Annual Plan has been broken into small sections which are available for download below.