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Location:  Institutional Arrangements | Departments | Budget and Treasury Office

Budget and Treasury Office

 

The Budget and Treasury Office plays a pivotal role within the municipality. The office consists of approximately 50 staff members and provides financial services for Council, the Executive and all departments. The office benefited from the Finance Management National Grant and has been able to increase the standard of financial performance to the extent that Council has been awarded the status of “High Capacity Municipality” of which there are only 50 nationally of the 283 municipalities.

 

The office has also, with the help of all departmental contributions, been recognised for sound financial governance by achieving an unqualified audit report for 6 consecutive years.

 

RSC Levies have been discontinued and the National Fiscus has allocated a Levy Replacement Grant for District Municipalities. The levy replacement grant is an interim measure to ensure the financial sustainability of district municipalities while National Government is currently defining overall fiscal streams to local government. The office was able to ensure a year on year RSC levy revenue increase of 15% over the past 4 years, without increasing the tariffs used to calculate levies. This remarkable achievement was considered by National Government when the allocations were determined for the various district municipalities.

 

The office currently has the challenge of centralising the financial services for the water and municipal health functions and continues to support local municipalities with their financial administration challenges.
Budget & Treasury departmental goals:

Priority Area

Objective

Indicator

Financial reporting

To monitor and report on municipal financial performance annually and periodically as required in terms of legal requirements

Budget (operating) - Refer MFMA

Financial statements  [04/05]- Refer MFMA

Budget Process Plan - Refer MFMA

Other Financial Reports (MFMA) - High Capacity Municipality

No. of Income and expenditure reports produced

Free basic services

To develop a district-wide database for purposes of recording indigent consumers

Database updated annually

To co-ordinate the implementation of FBS and indigent support policies

% of poor hhs that have been budgeted for to receive free basic service as defined in the free basic services policy.

Financial performance

 

To pay creditors within 30 days

Average creditor days

To send all levy invoices (RSC4s) within 7 days after the end of each month

Average % of invoices in a quarter that have been sent) within 7 days after the end of each month

Priority Area

Objective

Indicator

Procurement

To meet the HDI targets set for capital and non-capital projects as per SCM policy

% of procurement on non-capital projects from companies that are  HDI

 

Employment Equity

To fill 60% of available positions in Levels 1- 6 with black [black, coloured, Indian] people

% of new recruits into available positions in levels 1-6 who are black

To fill 50% of available positions in Levels 1 - 6 with women

% of new recruits into available positions in levels 1-6 who are women

To fill 1% of available positions in the department with disabled people

% of new recruits into available positions in the department who are disabled

Skills Development

To comply with the approved skills development plan

% of actual training intervention against the planned training interventions

To provide training impact reports to HR about staff who underwent training

% of staff who underwent training for whom training impact reports have been submitted to HR

Performance management

To ensure performance management  is operational in the department

% departmental staff with whom performance review meetings with their managers were held

WSP performance

To incentivize WSP to meet the financial requirements of the service contracts

% of WSPs whose performance meet at least at 50% of the financial requirements of the service contracts

External revenue

To ensure that all gazetted [DORA] and promised funds for departmental services are applied for

% gazetted funds and other promised funds for services within the department actually received

Working environment

To improve communication between management and employees

% survey responds that feel that communication between staff and management in the Dept. is at least good

Staff absenteeism

To minimise staff absenteeism in the department

% per quarter of person-days lost to absenteeism

Audit reports

To achieve an unqualified audit report every year

No. of audit findings that relate to internal controls in the department

 

 

To ensure that all financially related projects financed from levies are fully implemented by 30 June 2006

% expenditure on financially related projects vs. budget

Priority Area

Objective

Indicator

Support to Local Municipalities

To get all municipalities to submit financial statements of the previous year by the end of the following financial year

No. of municipalities that submitted financial statements by the end of the following financial year

To contribute towards the achievement of unqualified Auditor-General’s reports by LMs

% of planned projects completed  in support of LMs towards achieving unqualified Auditor-General’s reports

To ensure legislative compliance by LMs

% of LMs that have complied with at least 50% of the finance related items of the legislative compliance checklists

To implemented finance related capacity building projects in LMs

% of budgeted expenditure for finance related capacity building projects actually spent

WSP interim contract

To have interim contracts with all current WSPs

No. of current WSPs that have concluded interim contract with ADM for 2005/6

Risk management

To compile quarterly departmental risk assessment reports

No. of risk assessment reports submitted to Internal Audit

Interdepartmental relations

To strengthen the interdepartmental relations

% of survey respondents who feel that the BTO is making at least a good contribution to interdepartmental relations

Coordination in the district

To participate in quarterly district functional forum meetings

No. of functional forum meetings attended

Contact details:

 

For further information, please contact the Chief Financial Officer, Mr Kevin Jacoby, at (043) 701 4087 or email at kevinj@amatoledm.co.za