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Plan measures more than money


The Christchurch City Council is a big player in life of the region. In its new draft Annual Plan, the Council is beginning to look at how it can also measure the effects its decisions are having on things like the environment and society.

The idea of organisations looking at more than the financial bottom line is called Triple Bottom Line Reporting (TBL).

The City Council’s aim is to create a high quality of life in the city, both now and in the future.

Using TBL reporting will help the Council see if it is making progress towards that goal.

Over time, the system should allow the public, Councillors and Council staff to judge how the organisation is doing in working towards a city that is prosperous, with a quality environment and social justice.

Asked at a Council meeting last month how much the TBL reporting system would add to costs, the City Manager, Mike Richardson, said the reporting system itself would not cost any more to prepare.

“If there are costs associated with it, they will come in Council deciding it wants to improve some aspect of the quality of living in the city which the reporting system has shown to be underperforming,” Mr Richardson told the Councillors.

The system was new, he said, and Christchurch was leading the way in bringing it in. It would evolve over time.

The 2003 draft Plan’s TBL sections include targets for social, economic and environmental outcomes, as well as financial, and the 2003 Annual Report would measure actual performance against those targets.

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