What does this event cover
Sales of goods and services make up around 16 percent of our sector’s total revenues, with this likely to rise as rate capping takes hold.
Setting fees and charges is a useful tool to support the wider policy and service delivery objectives of your councils.
This session focuses on the fundamentals of setting fees and charges, including the legal frameworks, some basic principles, and the information you might need to master all things fee setting.
Topics include:
- the case for centralising your fee-setting
- understanding the legal context for fee-setting
- the constitutional principles
- linking fee-setting to your objectives
- concession policies (discounts and waivers)
- setting the fee including cost drivers, information needs and pricing principles.
Whether you’re managing a single activity, writing a revenue and financing policy, or trying to figure out how fees might be designed to achieve a policy objective, this is the event for you.
Programme overview
Your facilitators and guest speakers
Raymond Horan
Raymond re-joined Taituarā in June 2014 as Sector Improvement Manager, before commencing his current role as Chief Advisor at Taituarā. He has spent most of the last 20 years in local government related roles, most recently with the Department of Internal Affairs.
He describes his job as two-thirds providing assistance to the local government sector and one-third providing advice to central government on local government matters. His ambition is to help develop a Local Government Act that doesn’t require changes every 18 months. He asks that you wish him well with this task.
