| Title |
Page
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| Overview |
4 |
| Linkages |
6 |
| The Operating Environment |
7 |
| Mandate and responsibilities |
7 |
| The legislative context |
8 |
| The fire environment |
8 |
| Commission's emergency management framework |
9 |
| Trends |
11 |
| What the Commission Does |
15 |
| Commission services |
15 |
| Resources |
20 |
| Impacts, Outcomes and Objectives |
21 |
| Strategic objectives |
21 |
| Community fire-related impacts and outcomes |
22 |
| Non-fire-related impacts and outcomes |
23 |
| The Commission’s Operating Intentions |
24 |
| How the Commission intends to deliver on its results |
24 |
| Evaluations |
26 |
| Risks |
26 |
| Managing Organisational Health |
28 |
| People and partnerships |
28 |
| A good employer |
30 |
| Stakeholder consultation |
30 |
| Asset management |
30 |
| Greenhouse gas emissions |
31 |
| Financial and non-Financial Measures |
32 |
| Main non-financial measures |
32 |
| Main financial measures |
33 |
| Consultation and Reporting to the Minister of Internal Affairs |
34 |
| Consultation with the Minister |
34 |
| Reporting to the Minister |
34 |
| Processes in Relation to Acquisitions |
34 |
| Other Matters |
34 |
| Statement of Responsibility |
35 |
| Prospective Forecast Financial Statements and Assumptions |
36 |
| Use of information contained in these financial statements |
36 |
| Significant financial assumptions |
36 |
| Updating financial statements |
36 |
| Prospective financial statements |
37 |
| Statement of accounting policies |
41 |
| Statement of Forecast Service Performance for 2008/2009 |
54 |
| Cost of the outputs |
55 |
| Output classes |
56 |
Overview
The New Zealand Fire Service Commission (Commission) is the Crown's principal fire risk management and service delivery agency. It provides a comprehensive range of risk reduction, fire safety public education, emergency response and rural fire authority co-ordination services to protect New Zealand's 4.2 million residents and visitors, $240 billion stock of buildings and 27 million hectares of forest and grasslands from fire. This Statement of Intent outlines the Commission's plans, programmes and priorities for the next three years. It describes the:
- Environment within which the Commission operates
- What the Commission does
- Commission's operating intentions for the next three years
- Impacts, outcomes and objectives of the Commission
- Commission's approach to managing organisational health
- The main measures used to monitor and assess performance.
The Commission contributes to two of the Government's priorities, Families Young and Old and Economic Transformation. It does this by reducing the incidence and consequences of fire.
A key measure of the Commission's impact on fire consequences is avoidable residential fire fatalities. In 2006/07 New Zealand experienced an avoidable residential fire fatality rate of just 0.36 fatalities per 100,000 population, down from 0.97 fatalities per 100,000 population ten years ago. The Commission is particularly proud of this world class performance. The national goal for 2008/2009 onwards is to maintain the rate to less than 0.5.
The Commission delivers a range of services (outputs) covering fire safety education and technical advice, emergency preparedness and response, and rural fire leadership and co-ordination. This document describes the services the Commission will deliver in 2008/2009 and the measures against which those services will be assessed.
The Commission will undertake numerous policy and programme initiatives in the next three years. By way of example they include:
- Finalise and implement a new measure of brigade readiness designed to provide high-level assurance of capability and capacity to meet community expectations.
- Finalise a resilience standard for fire stations and establish and implement the capital works programme to meet the resilience standard.
- Consult with urban stakeholders on the National Resource Allocation model, including the application of the model to more remote communities
- Develop and implement the action plans for achieving the newly established greenhouse gas emissions targets.
- Update and implement the planned five-year evaluation programme that assesses the impact key programmes have on national goals.
The Commission is committed to ensuring the capability and health of New Zealand's fire services is maintained and enhanced over time. This document sets out how it intends to do in the coming three years. It also sets out the Commission's commitment to its employees, to sound public sector employment practices and to the principles of equality of opportunity and diversity.
Included in this document are the forecast costs of providing the services for 2008/2009. These costs and the forecasts for each of the subsequent two years are presented in the statement of prospective financial performance, the statement of prospective financial position and the statement of prospective cash flows.
The Crown Entities Act requires boards to operate as a going concern on a sustainable basis and the Commission is committed to achieving this.
Signed on behalf of the New Zealand Fire Service Commission
Dame Margaret Bazley, DNZM, Hon DLit
Chairperson
30 June 2008
Angela Foulkes, ONZM
Member
30 June 2008