20092011 Business Plan

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2009-2011 Business Plan BudgetCoordinationHe
ather Reed-Fenske Program Manager, Business Plan
and Budget Coordination2008 June 24
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• Agenda
• Overview of the 2009-2011 Business Plan Budget
  Coordination program
• Imagination into action
• Shaping Council Priorities
• Shaping Business Planning Guidelines
• Evaluation and Learning
• Questions

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Benefits of multi-year planning budgeting

• Provides a more predictable financial framework
• Helps The City plan for and achieve longer-term
  goals
• Provides greater certainty for citizens about the
  future direction of City services, finances, and
  tax levels
• Establishes greater accountability for delivery
  of public service

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Components

• Components of the Business Plan and Budget
  Coordination Program
• Corporate Backgrounder
• Council Priorities
• Corporate Direction
• Business Plans and Budgets

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Timelines








2009 2011
2009-2011 Department Business Plans
2009 2011 Budgets Approved by Council



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2009 - 2011
Business
Corporate
Council
Multi-Year Budgets
Plan Guidelines
Backgrounder


Priorities


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imagination into Action

• Priorities for Long Range Urban Sustainability
  (Sustainability Priorities)
• Completion of imagineCALGARY plan
• Administration directed to organize the 2009-2011
  business plan around outcomes of imagineCALGARY
  established high-level alignment
• Sustainability Priorities developed and were
  included in BPBC2 Corporate Backgrounder
• Sustainability Priorities
• a valuable tool in development of Council
  Priorities
• direct alignment required Business Plan guidelines

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Council Priorities

• What are they? What do they do?
• A commitment-in-writing, endorsed by Members of
  Council
• Set out the city priority areas for service
  provision for 2009-2011
• Identifies strategic initiatives that will best
  address citizen concerns
• Focuses on the what we are going to do improve
  responsiveness to citizens

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Council Priorities
A great city for everyone

• Community well-being
• Sustainable environment
• Prosperous economy
• Smart growth and mobility choices

Sustainable corporation
Financial capacity

• Healthy, sufficient workforce
• Safe, reliable infrastructure
• Effective, efficient services

• Sufficient operating revenue
• Long-term capital funding

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Councils Strategic Goals/Elements(imagineCalgar
y targets embedded in here)
City of Calgary's Sustainability Priorities
1.Community well-being
2.Sustainable Environment
3.Prosperous economy
5. Healthy, sufficient Workforce
4.Smart growth Mobility

• 6. Reliable,
• safe
• infrastructure

7. Effective, Efficient services
8. Sufficient operating revenues
9. Long-term capital funding
Departments review recommend actions (CPs) to
support Councils Goals (imagineCalgary targets
embedded in here)
CPs
Confirm direction on CPs with Council
Business Plan Guidelines Approval
Business Plans identify specific action to
deliver on Council priorities (imagineCalgary
targets embedded/specified here)
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Business Planning Guidelines

• Business Plans
• A 3 year contract between Administration and
  Council that integrates with the budgets.
• Outlines how the Administration proposes to
  address Councils goals and priorities and
  emerging issues.
• Council direction to have Business Plans
  represent Citys commitment to imagineCALGARY
  through incorporation of The Citys
  Sustainability Priorities.

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Evaluation and Learning

• What worked well?
• Sustainability Priorities - an effective way to
  identify and to focus strategic initiatives in
  Business Planning.
• Focus on strategic initiatives in business
  planning process allows better management of
  feeds into the process.
• Combining with Council Priorities and Business
  Plan guidelines provides fail-safe cross
  reference.
• Have dedicated resources to represent
  Sustainability Priorities throughout the process.

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Evaluation and Learning

• What would we improve?
• Address issue - community target vs. corporate
  target.
• Business Plans are focused on short term results
  sustainability issues require long-term
  efforts.
• Monitoring of the long-term progress within the
  context of a short-term business plan
  challenge.

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• Discussion and Questions

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