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We are developing a vision with the community for the community which will provide guidance for creating a future Glen Eira.
Over the next five months, we will reach out to all people across the Glen Eira community to inform our new Community Vision and we want to hear from you. To understand our local values, needs and aspirations we invite your input of big and little ideas for the future you want for your City.
Have you ever stopped to think what Glen Eira will look like in the future?
Thinking back it wasn’t all that many years ago, that the City of Glen Eira was formed (1994). Around that time, there were approximately 51,000 households and we had a population of around 112,000 (Census, 1996). The World Wide Web was beginning to take off and phones were mobile, however they were just phones with buttons — not touch screens.
Fast forward to today, and we have almost 60,000 households and a population of around 154,000 (ABS, 2018) that is rich with diversity of culture, interests and needs — who can imagine what the next 10, 20 or 30 years might bring.
We believe it is time to imagine; to actively look to the future and imagine what we want Glen Eira to look and feel like. We seek to develop a vision with the community for the community to provide a clear direction for strategically creating a future Glen Eira.
Using a comprehensive engagement process, we want to understand the aspirations and priorities that create and achieve our Community Vision. This will be based on evidence of current and future community needs and will be used to guide our strategic actions into the future.
Over the next five months, we will be actively seeking to hear all voices of our community and we want to hear from you.
We want to hear your views on what the future of Glen Eira could and should look like — to understand:
The Community Vision commences with a co-design process. All 25 community leaders came together over two sessions to determine the following;
From September to December we commenced many engagement activities, including;
From this, we had more than 3000 people telling us about their aspirations for the future of Glen Eira.
This information provides 12 key action areas for the Glen Eira 2040 Community Vision.
These action areas include (in no particular order):
The second stage of community engagement will gain an understanding of how our community feels about these areas. This includes gaining specific information, and to see if anything was missing. This stage of engagement consists of;
This stage of engagement presents participants with descriptions of the 12 action areas. We also ask the following questions:
This stage of engagement receives feedback from over 850 people. This information provides the Deliberative Citizens' Panel with insights into creating the Community Vision.
The Deliberative Community Panel scheduled for 29 March has been postponed until further notice — online communications and discussion will continue.
In early March, 40 community members are selected at random. They are there to be part of the panel for developing the Glen Eira 2040 Community Vision.
The registration of more than 300 people allows an independent consultant to choose a sample of people representative of our community;
Their job is to review background information collected over five months. This provides a collective response to the following question:
“What is our vision for the future of Glen Eira and how can we reflect the aspirations of our diverse and growing community”
The panel will be facilitated by MosaicLab - an organisation with expertise in facilitating the deliberative processes. The draft Community Vision will be made available for comment prior to a final meeting to refine the Vision.
A Community Vision is an aspirational description of what our residents and ratepayers want for the future of Glen Eira.
A Community Vision captures what community members most value about their community. It sets out the future vision and aspirations for the community for at least a ten year period. It is developed in conjunction with the community and will identify and describe a vision for Glen Eira as well as priorities that define future success.
The Draft Local Government Bill, if enacted, will require Council to develop both a Community Vision and a Council Plan.
A Vision is developed with the community for at least a ten year period and sets out the community aspirations and goals. The Council Plan is developed by Council and is a more detailed document regarding specific strategies and actions.
A Council Plan is developed at the start of each Council term and sets out the strategic direction of Council for at least the next 4 financial years. The Council Plan is informed by the Community Vision and sets out strategic objectives and strategies for achieving Council’s and the Community’s aspirations.
Council seeks to develop a vision with the community for the community to provide a clear direction for creating a future Glen Eira. Over the next five months, we will be actively seeking to hear all voices of our community and we want to hear from you.
A comprehensive community engagement process is planned to ensure effective and inclusive communication engagement of the entire Glen Eira community.
To assist in designing the community engagement Council had an independent consultant deliver Co-Design workshops with 25 community members representing groups including police, community leaders, service providers and residents. The workshop identified the scope of engagement, key themes to be included in the community engagement activities, strategies for reaching groups that don’t often participate in engagement processes and suggested engagement activities.
We are seeking to involve all community members of Glen Eira.
The Community Vision is a document produced by the community and owned by the community. It will be used to guide strategic planning and decision making for the future of Glen Eira.
In particular it will guide Council’s priorities through the development of the Council Plan 2021–2025 and beyond.
We are seeking to understand the current and future needs of our community. Accordingly the range of topics to be covered will be guided by the community.
Broad questions will include:
It is expected that there will be many and varied themes explored during the engagement period. As a starting point the following themes were identified through Co-Design workshops.
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