Theme 7: Governance and leadership

In Boroondara, we appreciate having strong, respectful leaders in Council who make transparent decisions and manage resources carefully. We like to be involved and informed about Council services and facilities to ensure everyone benefits and has a say. We also value Council advocating for community priorities and keeping us in the loop. Our strategic objective is to ensure that all decisions are financially and socially responsible, made through transparent and ethical processes.

Major achievement

Through major initiative 7.5, we commenced the consultation, deliberative engagement and development of the renewed Boroondara Community Plan 2025-35 to ensure we deliver what's most important to our community.

Boroondara Community Plan 2025-35 renewal

The Boroondara Community Plan is our guiding strategy. It sets Council’s priorities and helps us plan, make decisions and allocate resources to ensure we deliver on what is important to our community. To renew the plan for 2025-35, we ran an extensive community consultation process over 2 stages where we received more than 5,600 valuable contributions from our community.

This diverse range of perspectives help to shape a shared vision and the direction of the draft plan. The new plan will be presented to Councillors for adoption in October 2025.

Highlights for the year

• We advocated on Victorian Government planning reforms making a wide range of submissions, including new standards for residential developments, housing targets and planning controls to encourage housing development in and around activity centres across Boroondara.
• We started a plain language initiative to make our customers' experience with Council better, focusing on giving clear and accurate information that’s easy to understand.