Larry. N. Mitchell
Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
‘Outcomes-Results’
Section Description
Larry. N. Mitchell
Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
Larry. N. Mitchell
Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
‘Outcomes-Results’ Section Description
This entirely new ‘Outcomes-Results’ section is designed to directly address the issues and
provide a means for Councils to establish an LTCCP Performance Measurement Framework
– an area that the OAG has recently stated will, in 2006 be receiving much more audit
scrutiny.
‘2006 is the year when the Office of the Auditor General will take particular interest
and will encourage all New Zealand Council’s to make significant progress in
developing and advancing their performance measurement frameworks and
performance reporting’.
The more technical details concerned with the concepts, structure and use of this ‘OutcomesResults’ dataset are contained on the website at www.kauriglen.co.nz/larry/OutcomesResultsCompositeIndex.doc.
The important highlights of this section include …
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The three (Income, Economic and Wealth) composite indices are included in this
section. These separately and when combined will give every Council the capability
to measure within their LTCCP’s process, on a rolling annual, three-yearly (and
longer) perspective, how each Council and their ‘TLA’s’ Communities are faring in
meeting their planned ‘Outcomes’.
Note: Many of the smaller or medium-sized units of local government may choose to
use these datasets as their default LTCCP performance measurement settings. The
‘Outcomes-Results’ reports focus upon the financial and economic aspects of
performance. They can be the most cost-effective foundation of Council’s LTCCP
performance measurement frameworks.
After all, not every Council can afford ‘a cast of thousands’, comprised of analysts,
economists and statisticians to conduct this work!
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A combined, Aggregated (‘composite of composites’) index is reported also which
tracks the combined (aggregated) ‘Outcomes-Results’, the combined effect of the three
separate indices (Income, Economic and Wealth), the eco-socio factors for your
Council – as one/single combined index/indicator.
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Analysis is facilitated that can include teasing out the ‘reasons’ for the discovered
‘Outcomes-Results’ separately identifying these as:
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Better/worse results than the sector
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Better/worse results than the group of ‘peer’ Councils
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Results that are due to, are as a result of specific Council/Community
initiatives – for example an LTCCP push on local economic initiatives would
be observable within the reporting of tourism, (guest nights), business or
building development, (building consents), that is local income movements
showing also elsewhere the effects upon the local wealth base (and rating
base too) – note: ‘local’ data and results refers to a Council’s actual and
existing TLA boundaries not merely to regional or national ‘stats’.
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30 separate measures, graphs etc are reported at the detailed level (with 5
years of history added) and these underpin in detail and inform the four
composite index levels of performance measurement.
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A basis (together with the ’10 biggies vital stats’, Powerpoint presentation) to
regularly present ‘Base Stats with Trendz’ findings including LTCCP
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Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
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Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
‘Outcomes-Results’ to various audiences – to the management team, the
whole Council, the media and to the public at large – consultation and
workshops processes alike.
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At the end of the day, all Outcomes ‘come back to the dollar’. The selection
of Income, Economic and Wealth datasets (above) reflect this eco-socio
emphasis.
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All in All – a value packed section, which in future will be further enhanced
with more ‘eco-socio’ ‘Outcomes-Results’ – Watch this space!
The following four templates show the composite indexes described (above) using an early
draft of their proposed content (which has altered slightly in its final form).
Note: For enlarged graphics see website,
url next page.
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Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
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Finance & Policy Analyst (Local Government)
Added value … ‘in spades!’
This is where the money went … the development over the last two years of the ‘OutcomesResults’ performance framework. The use of these indices is fully described on the website
ref; www.kauriglen.co.nz/larry/Outcomes-ResultsCompositeIndex.doc
The real power of this analysis lies in the cost effectiveness of the approach. The cost to
obtain this breadth of outcome related information annually would be absolutely prohibitive
for all but the largest most well resourced of New Zealand Councils.
By intelligently managing the data reported at each of the three levels (Income, Economic,
Wealth) good performance management and measurement can be achieved … even by the
least resourced TLA.
The three levels for the management of this information to monitor eco socio outcomes of
your Council are:
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at the individual measure level for example the short term economic influences as
shown by the building consents data (the graph and within the economic index)
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at the individual index level for example the economic index (aggregated impact of 10
economic measures) compared to the other two … the Income and Wealth indices
and
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at the overall aggregate combined-composites level which represents IN ONE
INDICATOR the total progress in eco socio terms of how your Council has fared over
a year, three years or longer.
Note: If nothing else, of all the information contained in the 2006 ‘Base Stats’ reports the data
of this section, ‘Outcomes-results’ will be worth the minimal effort needed to review the
results.
Even if this information duplicates to a degree the data (performance or LTCCP) that you
have on hand already, for the modest costs involved of time and further analysis, the value,
added value and assurance that will be associated with your Councils involvement with
outcome performance measurement will be enhanced with the use of the information of this
section.
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