• About Good Governance
• What does good governance mean in practice?
  • High ethical standards
  • Understanding your role
  • Building Positive Relationships in Local Government
  • Effective Strategic Planning and Monitoring Performance
  • Robust Risk Management
    • How can councils manage risks?
    • The risk management process
  • Fair and transparent decision making
  • Legislative compliance
  • Continuous improvement
• Practicing good governance
• Good Governance and land-use planning
• Summary of links and resources
• Further information
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary

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5. Evaluate the risk

The purpose of risk evaluation is to make decisions based on the outcomes of risk analysis about which risks are acceptable, which risks need treatment and the treatment priorities.

Your council is unlikely to have sufficient resources to treat all risks in an optimum manner.

Therefore it will always be necessary to evaluate and prioritise:

• which risks to treat, or mitigate; and
• the resources (if any) to devote to treating or mitigating each risk.

The highest priority should be given to those risks that council decides are the least acceptable.

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• About Good Governance
  • What is good governance?
  • What are the main characteristics of Good Governance?
  • What are the benefits of Good Governance
• What does good governance mean in practice?
  • High ethical standards
    • Guiding questions for ethical decision making
      • Are your actions in line with the law?
      • Are your actions in line with your council’s code of conduct?
      • Are your actions in line with your personal ethics?
    • Promoting ethical behaviour and useful resources
  • Understanding your role
    • What are the roles in local government
      • Elected members collectively
      • Mayor
      • Deputy mayor and elected members individually
      • General manager
      • Council administration
      • Minister for Local Government
      • Local Government Division
      • Director of Local Government
      • Local Government Association of Tasmania
    • Useful resources
  • Building positive relationships
    • How do you build good relationships?
      • By treating others with respect
      • By understanding your role
      • By understanding the role of others
      • By following communication protocols
    • The relationship between the mayor and the general manager
  • Effective Strategic Planning and Monitoring Performance
    • What is good strategic planning
      • Strategic plans
      • Financial and asset management plans
      • Monitoring and reporting performance
    • Useful resources
  • Robust Risk Management
    • How can councils manage risks?
    • The risk management process
      • 1. Communicate and consult
      • 2. Set the organisational context
      • 3. Identify the risk
      • 4. Analyse the risk
      • 5. Evaluate the risk
      • 6. Treat the risk
      • 7. Monitor, review and audit
  • Fair and transparent decision making
    • Principles guiding decision making
      • Acing in accordance with the law
      • Making unbiased decisions
      • Acting in the interests of the community
    • Community engagement
    • What is a good decision making process
      • Stage 1: Setting the agenda
      • Stage 2: Gathering information
      • Stage 3: Forming an opinion
      • Stage 4: Making the decision
      • Stage 5: Implementing the decision
    • Conflict of interest
      • Pecuniary interests
      • Non-pecuniary interests
    • Closed meetings
    • Useful resources
  • Legislative compliance
  • Continuous improvement
    • What is continuous improvement?
    • Setting the scene for continuous improvement
    • Continuous improvement as a council
    • Continuous improvement for individual elected members
• Practicing good governance
  • Practicing Good Governance as an individual
  • Practicing good governance as a council
• Good Governance and land-use planning
  • Your role as part of a planning authority
  • Relationships between the planning authorities and stakeholders
  • Decision making as part of a planning authority
  • Complying with relevant legislation
  • Strategic land-use planning
• Summary of links and resources
• Further information
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary