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SCHEDULE

PART IImeasures applied to adjust for additional needs

Population Adjustment Methodology

6.  The Department shall adjust population to address –

(a)deprivation in a local government district, by taking the following steps –

(i)application of the employment scores with a 100 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that community services expenditure is to total expenditure;

(ii)application of the employment scores with a 50 percent weighting and domestic net annual values with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment for each of the proportion that economic development expenditure is to total expenditure;

(iii)application of the income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;

(b)an influx of additional population into a local government district, by taking the following steps –

(i)application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;

(ii)application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting and travel to work factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that street-cleansing expenditure is to total expenditure; and

(c)sparsity in a local government district, by taking the following step –

application of mid-year population density data with a 25 percent weighting and private household data with a 75 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that refuse collection expenditure is to total expenditure.