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Contents
Fast Facts About Our Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Mayor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Councillors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Organisational Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CEO’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Executive Leadership Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Council Group Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Council Goal Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
GOAL 1 - Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
GOAL 2 - Natural Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
GOAL 3 - Built Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
GOAL 4 - Infrastructure and Asset Management . . . . . . . . . . . 22
GOAL 5 - Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
GOAL 6 - Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Legislative Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Community Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
About this report
Our Annual Report summarises Council’s 2016-17 activities, our
many achievements, our challenges and provides a snapshot
of the year gone by. It is also an opportunity for us to profile
the organisation, the teams within it and our beautiful region.
At the Toowoomba Regional Council, we measure our
performance against the 2014-2019 Corporate Plan and this is
the second year of reporting against the current Corporate Plan.
We view our Annual Report as one of the key accountability
mechanisms between Council and our community and it
is developed in compliance with Section 104 of the Local
Government Act 2009.
This report is also available in full on our website at:
www.tr.qld.gov.au/annualreport
Annual Report 2016 - 2017 I TOOWOOMBA REGIONAL COUNCIL
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