The City of Greater Bendigo has failed 10 out of 12 of its own performance goals for 2013-14.
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In a statement outlining targets the council planned to achieve by June 30, 2014, a raft of major projects are listed as over budget and overdue.
The Hospital Precinct Structure Plan was supposed to have been completed at a cost of $136,000 but has instead blown out to more than $192,000.
City of Greater Bendigo acting director organisation support Travis Harling said the budget blowout for the Hospital Precinct Structure Plan could not be considered in isolation.
“Overall the project was only 1.1 per cent over budget or $2752. This figure is based on the original budgeted net cost to council and takes into account funding from the City, the hospital and the state government,” Mr Harling said.
"It does not account for financial expenditure and revenue in previous financial years," he said.
"In general, the City sets its Key Strategic Activities annually when the budget is created and they can change from year to year, so it can be difficult to accurately report on a project's progress."
He said the poor report card was as inaccurate picture of how far advanced council projects really were.
"A project could be 95 per cent complete but there is no way to show this, similarly there is no way to take into account the impact of spending in previous financial years," Mr Harling said.
The Residential Development Strategy Review analysing new growth areas, housing diversity and density was supposed to be finished in June, but won't be completed until November.
Likewise the Long Gully Splash Park was supposed to be finished in June but the completion date has been moved to December.
The Building Asset Management Plan, providing direction of council's property portfolio was not completed in time and is not expected until March next year.
An Integrated Transport and Land Use Plan went beyond its budget of $212,000 with the plan yet to be considered by councillors and released to the community for review.
Council was aiming to increase the rate of primary immunisation for the Bendigo population to be greater than 93.5 per cent and the rate of immunisation for indigenous Australians to be greater than 50 per cent - both targets have not been met.
Council was aiming to have at least 77 per cent of Bendigo residents report positive well-being by June, but missed the target with results coming in at just above 70 per cent.
The only two activities achieved on time were in relation to planning documents for Marong Business Park and average amount of waste per household.