The objective of the Evolve project is to understand the community’s future needs and desires for the Town by October 2016 so that we can create a Strategic Community Plan for future years. Our desired outcome is for the Town and the community to work together to identify services and implement projects that meet the community's expectations.
To achieve this we want to start a conversation and engage with the community in a way that has never been done before. There will be genuine and open discussions with the community about the future of the Town.
At the end of the project, the Town will have a Strategic Community Plan, a Corporate Business Plan, a Long Term Financial Plan, Asset Management Plan(s), and a Workforce Plan; all of these documents being genuinely informed by the community.
What's happening now?
The public participation phase of Evolve has now ended.
We've had the feedback received through workshops, cafe conversations, online participation and pop-up engagement analysed, and have called for submissions on the Draft Abridged Strategic Community Plan 2017-2032.
The Strategic Community Plan is intended to outline the long-term vision, mission and strategic outcomes for the Town. The draft abridged document represents a shorter version of a traditional Strategic Community Plan. We wanted to include as much of the strategic components of the Plan in one document that could be easily read, hence this abridged version.
We will now be looking at the submissions received and making any required changes. The Strategic Community Plan will be considered by Council at a Special Council Meeting in late May 2017.
The objective of the Evolve project is to understand the community’s future needs and desires for the Town by October 2016 so that we can create a Strategic Community Plan for future years. Our desired outcome is for the Town and the community to work together to identify services and implement projects that meet the community's expectations.
To achieve this we want to start a conversation and engage with the community in a way that has never been done before. There will be genuine and open discussions with the community about the future of the Town.
At the end of the project, the Town will have a Strategic Community Plan, a Corporate Business Plan, a Long Term Financial Plan, Asset Management Plan(s), and a Workforce Plan; all of these documents being genuinely informed by the community.
What's happening now?
The public participation phase of Evolve has now ended.
We've had the feedback received through workshops, cafe conversations, online participation and pop-up engagement analysed, and have called for submissions on the Draft Abridged Strategic Community Plan 2017-2032.
The Strategic Community Plan is intended to outline the long-term vision, mission and strategic outcomes for the Town. The draft abridged document represents a shorter version of a traditional Strategic Community Plan. We wanted to include as much of the strategic components of the Plan in one document that could be easily read, hence this abridged version.
We will now be looking at the submissions received and making any required changes. The Strategic Community Plan will be considered by Council at a Special Council Meeting in late May 2017.
The Town of Victoria Park is currently developing a new
public health plan. This process includes identifying the public health needs
of the community.
To ensure the plan meets local needs the Town is seeking
feedback from the community regarding public health priorities.
As a community member, what is your biggest public health concern and what do you think could be done to improve it?
What roads under the Town's control and care do
you feel need significant investment to improve safety and/or increase capacity?
Note: Shepperton
Road, Orrong Road, Canning Hwy and Great Eastern Highway are all managed by Main
Roads WA and are not the responsibility of the Town of Victoria Park.
The Town recognises the huge importance trees play in our
community. Trees have a strong influence in the overall health and wellbeing
of the community and undoubtedly positively increase the aesthetic appearance
of our streetscapes.
The Town awarded a three year contract, via a public tender
in June this year, to a consulting Arborist firm to assess every tree in the
Town, map its location and provide information as to what maintenance works are
required. This information will form the base data required to begin to develop
a tree management strategy, popularly known today as an "Urban Forest
Strategy".
This data will also be used to identify opportunities to
increase the Town's annual planting numbers to combat, amongst other issues, urban heat islands. Each tree will also be assigned a value according to an
established valuing method, enabling the Town to place a monetary value on its
living assets. This value will be required when they may become compromised in
a development application process.
The Town will be seeking community input at all stages
as the strategy develops and the Evolve project would like to start the conversation.
Do you think the Town’s tree
canopy cover should be improved?
Which areas are in need of
attention?
Do you have any suggestions
on how the Town could provide more canopy cover?
Sporting clubs make a
significant contribution towards health, wellbeing, inclusion and the
development of a community. Currently, the Town supports a number of sporting clubs, including cricket, soccer, hockey and swimming.
Do you think that the Town should provide support to sporting clubs?
If so, what type of support should the Town provide, and do you think the Town currently provides an adequate level of support? How could we improve how we support our sporting clubs?
The
Town currently provides four rounds of kerbside green waste collection and two rounds of kerbside bulk waste collection, at a cost amounting to about 1%
of the total rates collected.
1. Would you be interested in reducing the green waste
collection to two times a year to possibly save approximately 0.2% on rates? Note: The total tonnage for green waste collected per year may still
be the same and the disposal cost would therefore not be significantly
different.
2. Would you be interested in getting up to threemini skip type bulk bins per year instead of the current verge side collection method? This may increase your rates by 2.9%, just for this service. Note: Not all properties within the Town are serviceable by bin transport trucks.
3. Do you have any other ideas that could improve the kerbside green waste and bulk waste collection service or are you satisfied with the service you currently receive?
