SALGA annual report 2016/17 SALGA ANNUAL REPORT 201617 PRINTED FINAL | Page 150

Chief Financial Officer’s review REVENUE Revenue for the year amounts to R589.8 million (2016: R504.8 million). Operating revenue The organisation is primarily funded by membership levies that are levied to member municipalities. For the year under review, membership levy revenue remained the main source of revenue for SALGA with membership levies comprising 84 per cent (2016: 91 per cent) of total revenue. Operating revenue R million Rendering of services - membership levies Transfers and subsidies - Executive Authority Revenue from non exchange transactions Revenue from capacity building programmes - exchange transactions Delegate registration fee revenue - exchange transactions Other revenue from exchange transactions Total operating revenue 2017 2016 2015 % change % change 429.1 7.6 7.2 26.9 220.1 (65.7) 12.3 54.1 83.5 2017 495.0 29.5 34.8 2016 460.1 9.2 22.6 7.3 5.3 2.4 36.4 119.3 21.4 1.8 589.8 5.4 2.2 504.8 15.1 2.0 489.6 294.0 (17.2) 16.8 (63.9) 9.2 3.1 Operating revenue distribution is as follows: Membership levy revenue increased by 7.6 per cent to R  495.0  million, largely due to inflationary adjustment as well as the organic growth in the number of budgeted municipal headcount. A strong growth in total operating revenue is underpinned by an increase that is over 100 per cent for transfers and subsidies from the Executive Authority to R29.5 million (2016: R9.2  million) and delegate fees from exchange transactions to R21.4  million (2016: R5.4 million). Revenue from non exchange transactions increased by 54.1 per cent due to resources leveraged from the LGSETA for the ICIP roll out. 150