As Victoria’s population grows, state and local governments need to build infrastructure to maintain Victorians’ standard of living. However, this places financial pressure on state and council budgets.
Development contributions provide governments with the opportunity to acquire additional funds to meet these needs.
Victoria’s growing population is placing pressure on its infrastructure. Development contributions can help the state government and local councils meet infrastructure needs within their budgets.
Development contributions are payments or in-kind works, facilities or services that developers and landowners provide towards the supply of infrastructure. Councils and the state use several tools to collect development contributions. The state government oversees all these tools.
| BNCF | Building New Communities Fund |
| CIL | community infrastructure levy |
| DCP | Development Contributions Program |
| DELWP | Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning |
| DTF | Department of Treasury and Finance |
| GAIC | Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution |
| GAPTF | Growth Areas Public Transport Fund |
Independent assurance report to Parliament
Ordered to be published
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER March 2020
PP No 116, Session 2018–20
Dear Presiding Officers
Development contributions are payments or in-kind works, facilities or services that developers and landowners provide towards the supply of infrastructure. Councils and the state use several tools to collect development contributions. The state government oversees all these tools.
This audit examined whether development contributions provide required infrastructure to new and growing communities as intended. We examined three programs and one other legal instrument:
Independent assurance report to Parliament
Ordered to be published
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER October 2019
PP No 86, Session 2018–19
Dear Presiding Officers
Government agencies often measure the efficiency of services by using a cost per output ratio. In contrast, DEA uses multiple inputs and outputs to benchmark efficiency across a group of organisations, such as libraries, that deliver similar services. In applying DEA, the most efficient libraries of the group receive a score of one. The remaining organisations receive a score between zero and one, which shows how their efficiency compares to the most efficient organisation of the same group, as shown in Figure D1.
PLV's annual survey asks Victorian libraries to provide their number of FTE employees. In our survey, we asked libraries to confirm their FTE employees for 2017–18 and spread them across the four functions outlined in Figure C1.
Figure C1
Library staff functions
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Description |
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Branch staff |
Figure B1
Victorian council library services
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Library service |
Swift member |
Member councils |
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Regional library corporations |
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Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation |
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We have consulted with Alpine, Buloke, Boroondara, DELWP, ERLC, MAV and Mornington, and we considered their views when reaching our audit conclusions. As required by the Audit Act 1994, we gave a draft copy of this report, or relevant extracts, to those agencies and asked for their submissions and comments.
Responsibility for the accuracy, fairness and balance of those comments rests solely with the agency head.
Responses were received as follows: