Some local governments feel that their role is to provide basic services like collecting the trash and
maintaining the roads and, of course, collecting the taxes to pay for these things. The Port Phillip
city government takes a broader and longer-term view. It wants those who live in the community
after the present generation has gone to have the same opportunities for a good quality of life as
today's residents have. To protect that quality of life, it has to be able to measure all the varied