❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on the allocation of the Country Local Government Fund, including the formulas, needs criteria, and agreements with local councils. The Minister provides detailed formulas and refers to publicly available documents for further information.
AnsweredQoN 669Legislative Council
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I refer to the Country Local Government Fund, which will provide $400 million over the next four years to regional Local Governments. Given that allocations for the first year of the fund will be determined on the basis of population and needs, and require ‘Local Government to provide an up-front agreement on what they will spend the money on’, I ask -
(1) What was the population formula used to determine the funding allocation for each of the 110 councils?
(2) What were the needs criteria used to determine the funding allocation to the 110 councils?
(3) How was one council’s need assessed against the needs of another council?
(4) Can the Minister provide the criteria used to assess funding allocations?
(5) If no to (4), why not?
(6) Will the Minister provide me copies of the 110 Local Government agreements outlining what they will spend their money on?
(7) If no to (6), why not?
(1) What was the population formula used to determine the funding allocation for each of the 110 councils?
(2) What were the needs criteria used to determine the funding allocation to the 110 councils?
(3) How was one council’s need assessed against the needs of another council?
(4) Can the Minister provide the criteria used to assess funding allocations?
(5) If no to (4), why not?
(6) Will the Minister provide me copies of the 110 Local Government agreements outlining what they will spend their money on?
(7) If no to (6), why not?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
7 May 2009
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Regional Development
Response time
36 days
(1) The formula used to determine the funding allocation for each of the 110 councils was as follows:
Formula
1) A
i
= k.p
i
+ D(G
i
+R
i
)/(Sum(G
i
)+Sum(R
i
))
where
A
i
is the final funding allocation to a local government;
p
i
is the local government population used in the 2007 Local Government Grants Commission (LGGC) Financial Assistance Grant (FAG) assessments; and
i represents each country local government.
2) k=CG/Pop
where
CG is total allocation of funds; and
Pop is the total country local government population used in the (2007) LGGC FAG assessments.
In 2008/9, CG was $97,500,000
3) $400,000 =< kp
i
=< $900,000
that is
kp
i
is constrained to be in the range [$400k to $900k]
4) D = CG - Sum(kp
i
)
that is
D is the difference (residual) between the total allocation (CG) and the sum of constrained allocations to individual local governments (
Sum(
kp
i
)).
5) G
i
is the local government's FAG grants amount arising from needs assessment by the LGGC.
6) R
i
is the local government's Road grants amount arising from roads assessment by the LGGC.
(2)
The needs criteria used to determine the Country Local Government Fund allocation to the 110 councils are included within the assessments of the WA Local Government Grants Commission, which annually assesses revenue capacity and expenditure needs using key data, and approximately 20 disability factors, to determine horizontal equalisation funding requirements. It also uses detailed road inventory data and regional costings to assess asset preservation needs for each local government as a basis for allocating local road grants. A local government's share of these allocations was considered to be a suitable indicator of funding needs.
(3) See above answer to Q 2.
(4) See above answer to Q 2. The allocations to local government and the criteria used by the WA Local Government Grants Commission to assess funding allocations can be found in their publications at
http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/LocalGovt/LGGC/Publications.asp
and
http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/LocalGovt/LGGC/Allocations.asp
.
(5) S
ee above answer to Q 4
.
(6) The agreements submitted by local government are a standard document and are available at
http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/FinancialAssist/Docs/CLGF_AcceptanceForm2008-09.pdf
. When acceptances are finalised, a report on the intentions of local government spending of CLGF monies will be posted on the website.
(7) See above answer to Q 6.
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Formula
1) A
i
= k.p
i
+ D(G
i
+R
i
)/(Sum(G
i
)+Sum(R
i
))
where
A
i
is the final funding allocation to a local government;
p
i
is the local government population used in the 2007 Local Government Grants Commission (LGGC) Financial Assistance Grant (FAG) assessments; and
i represents each country local government.
2) k=CG/Pop
where
CG is total allocation of funds; and
Pop is the total country local government population used in the (2007) LGGC FAG assessments.
In 2008/9, CG was $97,500,000
3) $400,000 =< kp
i
=< $900,000
that is
kp
i
is constrained to be in the range [$400k to $900k]
4) D = CG - Sum(kp
i
)
that is
D is the difference (residual) between the total allocation (CG) and the sum of constrained allocations to individual local governments (
Sum(
kp
i
)).
5) G
i
is the local government's FAG grants amount arising from needs assessment by the LGGC.
6) R
i
is the local government's Road grants amount arising from roads assessment by the LGGC.
(2)
The needs criteria used to determine the Country Local Government Fund allocation to the 110 councils are included within the assessments of the WA Local Government Grants Commission, which annually assesses revenue capacity and expenditure needs using key data, and approximately 20 disability factors, to determine horizontal equalisation funding requirements. It also uses detailed road inventory data and regional costings to assess asset preservation needs for each local government as a basis for allocating local road grants. A local government's share of these allocations was considered to be a suitable indicator of funding needs.
(3) See above answer to Q 2.
(4) See above answer to Q 2. The allocations to local government and the criteria used by the WA Local Government Grants Commission to assess funding allocations can be found in their publications at
http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/LocalGovt/LGGC/Publications.asp
and
http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/LocalGovt/LGGC/Allocations.asp
.
(5) S
ee above answer to Q 4
.
(6) The agreements submitted by local government are a standard document and are available at
http://www.dlgrd.wa.gov.au/FinancialAssist/Docs/CLGF_AcceptanceForm2008-09.pdf
. When acceptances are finalised, a report on the intentions of local government spending of CLGF monies will be posted on the website.
(7) See above answer to Q 6.
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