The council's finance and corporate committee will tomorrow consider a 12-month review of the projects it planned to do in the past year.
It shows the council provisionally spent $34.079 million, $4.332 million less than budgeted, and revenue, excluding rates, overall was $1381 less than expected at $15.765 million.
Among the projects overspent was $102,000 in the flood event management project due to the number of significant flood events staff had to deal with in July, August and December 2012 and January and June 2013, corporate services director Wayne Scott said in the report.
Another was overspending of $108,000 in the emergency management budget due to more work being needed in that area, with staff responding to a tsunami alert in February last year, taking part in the national ShakeOut exercise in September, and a South Island Alpine Fault earthquake exercise in May.
There was also underspending in budgets, such as $1.3 million in the air quality budget due mostly to $1.1 million in the Clean Heat, Clean Air project as insulation and heating work was funded by the previous year's grant money.
Other underspending was $200,000 in the governance and community budget resulting from the council not employing a consultant to discuss building options, and $112,000 in the environmental enhancement project following a lack of applications for the money.
The full and audited financial position of the council for the year ending June 30 will be presented in the annual report at a council meeting later this month.
