Rotorua district councillors are asking for more realistic performance measures to be introduced after it was revealed that just three council departments achieved their targets in the last financial year.
Councillors met yesterday to discuss the council's draft annual report for the last financial year at an extraordinary meeting of the council's Operations and Monitoring Committee.
The draft report revealed that the Rotorua District Council achieved 99 of its 144 (68.75 per cent) performance measures between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014. The worst-performing of the 19 council activities measured was economic development, which hit just nine of its 26 (34.6 per cent) performance targets.
The three activities that managed a 100 per cent record were governance and strategic direction, events and venues, and Rotorua Airport infrastructure. Ten of the 19 activities measured missed a 100 per cent record by just one performance indicator.
Councillor Glenys Searancke said she was not overly concerned as it was not realistic to have set so many targets, with some of them over-optimistic.