5. Council Services Everything that Council does is focused on achieving community outcomes. All activities outlined in the Asset Plan 2022-2032 aim to deliver the results required to achieve these outcomes, contribute to strategies and meet its legislative requirements. Likewise, all Council capital and operating expenditure is directed towards a level of service that moves the community closer to these outcomes now or at some future point.
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Services Supported by Assets
Council’s assets exist to enable the provision of a broad range of services for community benefit. Council’s ability to effectively manage its assets has a direct impact on the quality of services enjoyed by the community. Council is continuously looking to improve the ways that it plans its services. This is to make sure that they are aligned with its goals, has clear and measurable outcomes, and responds to community expectations and affordability. Bannockburn Cultural Centre
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Levels of Service
Asset planning enables the relationship between service standards and the cost of the service to be determined (i.e., quality vs. cost relationship). This relationship can then be evaluated in consultation with the community to determine the minimum levels of service for which people are prepared to pay. Levels of service provide the basis for planning life cycle management strategies and work programmes. Clear levels of service give Council the ability to monitor and report on its performance. Council’s aim is to continue to advance the municipality without diminishing its net level of service over the long term.
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Levels of Service Levels of service are used to define the quality of assets and services against which performance can be measured.
