A steady year saw the Clutha District Council post a $1.87 million surplus for the 2008-09 year.
The net operating surplus for the year ending June 30, 2009, was slightly above the council's budget, which reported it spent $1.95 million more than planned, but also earned $2.2 million more than it had predicted.
The 101-page document, adopted by last week's full council meeting, lists what the council has done in the past financial year, measured it against targets, while also showing how much council managers and councillors were paid for their efforts over the same period.
Generally, the council achieved what it had set out to do in the year with a host of infrastructure projects dominating its project list.
These included sealing the gravel road that links Owaka with Kaka Point, starting a big list of footpath upgrades, the new Waipahi rural water scheme, securing more than $2 million from the Ministry of Health to upgrade water treatment plants at four centres and making progress on sewage treatment and stormwater disposals works in Milton.
Council corporate services manager Alan Dickson said the final breakdown of figures showed rates revenue was above budget by $432,000 while the council was given $409,000 more from Land Transport New Zealand than it predicted.
Its interest income was also higher by $306,000.
On the flip side, the council's roading costs were $1.1 million above budget, rising power expenses saw its water costs rise by $639,000, while increases in depreciation costs for various services added hundreds of thousands of dollars to the bottom line.
The report shows chief executive Charles Hakkaart received a salary of $201,550, up nearly $6000 on the previous year.
Mayor Juno Hayes was paid $76,035 which was down about $15,000 on the previous year.
The councillors to get the biggest pay packets were deputy mayor Hamish Anderson ($25,706) and committee chairman Bruce Vollweiler (regulatory services chair, $22,362), Peter McPherson (district assets, $29,608) and Jeff Seymour (corporate services, $21,605).
