Your feedback showed strong support for the engagement principles in the Policy:
- transparency and Integrity
- accountability
- responsiveness
- respect
- fairness
- Human Rights
Feedback also showed a strong desire for genuine approaches by Council when engaging with the community. Approaches important to the community included;
- listening to community views
- promoting projects broadly for greater awareness
- allowing enough time for consultation
- presenting expert data
- providing online opportunities to take part
- keeping community informed through the project stages
- working collaboratively with the community
- engaging in other languages
The outcomes report is in the document library.
We are reviewing our Community Engagement Policy. We want to hear your thoughts on how:
- we should undertake community consultations
- you would like to take part.
This Draft Community Engagement Policy is an overarching community engagement framework. It will guide Council on how we ask your views on a range of local priorities and the future of the community. Your views are important in informing Council decisions, projects, policies, plans and services.
This Draft Policy is informed by:
- past community consultations
- the Local Government Act 2020. The Act has Community Engagement as one of the five principles. The Act requires Council to adopt a community engagement policy on or before 1 March 2021.
The Draft Policy also aligns with:
- Victorian Auditor General’s Officer Public Participation Principles
- International Association for Public Participation.
Your feedback will help shape the way we make decisions about things that matter to you in Brimbank.
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