2017 – 2021 Council Plan
Our draft Council Plan proposes strategic objectives in four Key Result Areas:

·         community liveability

·         built & natural environment

·         competitive & Innovative Economy

·         our people, our processes

It is based on our extensive community engagement over the last few years, including for precinct plans, community plans, recreation strategy, economic development strategy and youth strategy.

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* 1. What are the ‘burning issues’ for you that you would like the Council Plan to address?

Health and Wellbeing Priorities
Our Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan will form part of our Council Plan.  Based on our community’s current health statistics and on consultation with our major regional stakeholders like health services and community organisations, we have identified four priority areas:

·         Healthy eating & living

·         Physical activity

·         Social connection

·         Family violence

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* 2. Do these priorities match what you feel is important? What do you consider a priority?

2017-2018 Budget and rate capping
We provide over 100 different services to our community, including aged and disability services, kindergarten, school crossing supervisors, libraries, pools, community grants, economic and tourism development. We also look after more than $115m worth of assets, including 3,200kms of road. Because of the type of services and works we provide, our costs go up by more than the ‘normal’ rate of inflation each year. While nobody likes increasing rates, the reality is that with external funding continuing to decline we have no other means of raising revenue and the gap between our income and our expenses is going to continue to grow in coming years.

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* 3. Would you prefer Council to cut services/ infrastructure work or to seek a rate cap?

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* 4. If you would prefer service cuts, we would like to hear from you which services or works you would like to see reduced?

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* 5. Any other comments you would like to make?

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