The Annual Plan

The Annual Plan financial documents, including the financial variance information, can be found here, with a list of the frequently asked questions here.

What happens to the budgets between consultation and adoption of the Annual Plan?

Now that the Annual Plan has entered the consultation phase the team will:

• Continue reviewing budgets and assumptions to identify necessary changes.
• Complete the forecast of 2021/22 financial performance to determine what impact this will have on 2022/23 capital programme and rates requirement.
• Changes resulting from submissions and the deliberations of Councillors will be costed and incorporated into budgets for Council adoption.
• Review our property valuation and rating data to ensure new properties have the correct valuation and rates types and existing properties also have the correct rates types.

What happens once Council adopts the Annual Plan?

Once the Annual Plan is adopted (during June) the team then move to:

• Delivering activities and services in line with the plan.
• Applying the rates to each of the 25,000 properties in the cities and getting your rates assessments out to you.
• Starting the Annual Plan and Long-term Plan planning processes for 2023/24 and 2024/25.