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Rating CVC’s performance

Geoff Helisma |

Comparative performance ratings were tabled in a report at yesterday’s full Clarence Valley Council meeting.

Prepared by Ratings PwC and Local Government Professionals Australia, NSW, The Australasian LG Performance Excellence Program report compares participating councils, across a diverse range of categories and functions, with state and national medians.

Sixty-five of 128 NSW councils participated in the survey.

The council reduced its full time equivalent employee (FTE) count by 2.9 per cent during the 2018 financial year, with a 2.2 per cent reduction in costs.

Across the state, the median FTE was 8.9 per 1,000 residents, while CVC’s was 9.0 compared with similar regional councils, which scored a median of 8.6FTEs.

According to the report, CVC’s FTE per 1,000 residents was 8.2 in 2015, 9.3 in 2016 and steady at 8.9 over the past two years.

The council’s employee cost per 1,000 residents landed right on the state’s median of $752,000 or $752 per resident.

The council’s staff turnover rate of 12.1 per cent (37 joined and 60 left CVC) compared to a state median of 14 per cent.

Gender-wise, 33 per cent of CVC’s employees were women, compared to 40 per cent across NSW and 46 per cent at a national level.

Demographically, 46 percent of CVC’s workforce was born from 1943 to 1966 (Baby Boomers), 32 per cent were men and 14 per cent women; 37 per cent were born from 1967 to 1980 (Generation X), 23 per cent were men and 14 per cent women; and 17 per cent were born after 1980: 12 per cent were men and five per cent women.

One of the three directors is a woman, 14 per cent of managers were women, 46 per cent of team leaders were women, 100 per cent of supervisors were men and 38 per cent of the remaining staff were women.

The council spent $640 per FTE on training (up $147 on the previous year) compared to the state’s $1,045.

However, the council was far ahead of the state’s median ‘lost time injury days per 100 staff’, scoring 41 days compared to 81.

The council spent $2,409 per FTE on overtime, compared to the state’s median of $2,899.

The 146-page report contains further analysis and should soon be available via CVC’s website; it can also be downloaded from CVC’s meetings page, as an attachment to item 15.021/19 – The Australasian Local Government Performance Excellence Program 2017/2018 – from the February 26 CVC meeting business paper.

Disclaimer: The information and/or metrics referred to are extracted from the Australasian Local Government Performance Excellence Program survey (survey) conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and commissioned by LG Professionals, NSW.

The survey was not conducted for the specific purposes of the council and was limited to only the councils who participated in it and based on the data they provided.

The reliability, accuracy or completeness of this information has not been verified by PwC, LG Professionals, NSW or any other person.

Accordingly, no one should act on the basis of this information and neither LG Professionals, NSW nor PwC accept any responsibility for the consequences of any person’s use of or reliance on this information or any reference to it.”