Gisborne District Council Revenue by Activity

Operating Revenue Source by Activity 2008

Source

Local Authority Census, Statistics New Zealand

Notes

1. The groups of activities in the above chart and table are based on Statistics New Zealand's New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification.
2. All figures are exclusive of GST.
3. This information has been prepared on an accrual basis.
4. This information is drawn from the annual Local Authority Census questionnaire and from audited Annual Reports by Statistics New Zealand. While a validation process is applied by Statistics New Zealand to ensure consistency across these sources, variations in accounting treatment and the need for some estimation, means that there can be differences with council data.
5. The information presented is for the Council alone. It does not include financials for any Council Controlled Organisation (an organisation where one or more Councils have 50% or more of the voting rights or have the right to appoint 50% or more of the directors) or for any Council Organisation (an organisation in which one or more Councils own/control any voting rights or have the right to appoint any of the directors) of the Council.
6. The groups of activity category definitions follow:
   (Please note not all Councils will have examples of each group of activity item.)
   Culture, recreation and sport - includes revenue from book rentals, library fines, and art gallery/museum charges. Also includes pool admission charges, holiday programme fees, hall rental charges, cemetery charges and sports field ground fees.
   Emergency management - includes any grants received for emergency management and recoveries for seminar and training sessions.
   Environment protection - includes any penalties or fees such as fines for breaching land use consents.
   Governance - includes any recoveries relating to council meetings, iwi and community consultation.
   Property, forestry, agriculture and other - may include property income from pensioner housing, flats or commercial property, timber sales, grazing land rentals, livestock sales and any other miscellaneous revenue not included in the other categories.
   Regulation and planning - includes income from consent processing, monitoring, inspection fees, land information reports, animal control health inspection fees and liquor licensing fees.
   Roading - the main "other" revenue source is the financial assistance from Transfund (now Land Transport New Zealand).
   Solid waste - includes land fill fees and recycling revenue income'
   Transport - all operating income for the transportation function, such as passenger transport and planning. Transit New Zealand passenger transport grants are typical funding sources for regional council. Regulatory income includes parking fines. Sales of goods and services includes bus fares or parking charges
   Wastewater - includes sewerage rates, waste water rates, stormwater rates or uniform annual charges
   Water supply - includes water supply charges and water connection fees.
   
7. The groups of activity category definitions follow:
   (Please note not all Councils will have examples of the revenue items.)
   Rates - all forms of rates, whether made under the Local Government Rating Act 2002 or other legislation, are included in this category. This includes water rates, but excludes rates collected on behalf of other councils (generally territorial authorities collecting rates on behalf of regional councils).
   Government grants and subsidies - grants, subsidies, and levies from central government, and from other local authorities and organisations. Grants treated as equity contributions are excluded.
   Regulatory income - income from fees and fines such as parking fines, building consent fees, and dog registration fees. Admission and parking charges are excluded from this category as they are treated as sales of goods and services.
   Investment income - this category predominantly consists of income from interest and dividends. Up to March 1996 interest revenue and dividends were seasonally adjusted. After March 1996, dividends became quite volatile due to large and irregular payments of dividends to local authorities from Council-Controlled Trading Organisations, and seasonal patterns were no longer apparent. Interest revenue continues to be seasonally adjusted and combined with actual dividends in the investment income category.
   Sales and other income - includes trading receipts such as admission charges, water sold by meter and other miscellaneous operating income. Excluded are any sales of goods and service within the local authority.
8. Total Revenue excludes Investment Income.