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The Boroondara Community Plan guides how Council makes decisions, delivers services, invests in our community and plans for the long term. It informs annual budgets and sets the focus for more detailed policies, strategies and action plans to ensure Council’s work aligns with community expectations. 

This is what we call our Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework, shown in the diagram on the right and explained in the table below.

Our Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework helps us: 

  • prioritise community health and wellbeing
  • make decisions and deliver services and facilities that reflect community priorities
  • monitor progress and share results with the community.
Circular infographic showing how the Boroondara Community Plan is developed through community consultation and ongoing performance reporting. The plan incorporates the Community Vision, Council Plan, and Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, supported by a 10-year Asset Plan and Long Term Financial Strategy, 4+ year Strategy and Action Plans, and a 1-year Annual Budget and Department Business Plans.
Long term planning 

10+ years:

  • Our Long-term Financial Plan: guides how we manage Council’s money over time, in line with the 4 themes of the plan.
  • Our Asset Plan: guides how we manage our community infrastructure – things like roads, community buildings, public toilets – over the next 10 years, also aligned to the 4 themes of the plan.

4+ years:

  • Adopted strategies, plans and policies, which detail our medium-term goals for specific service areas.
Annual planning  
  • Annual Budget: details our planned yearly actions, spending and infrastructure investments.
  • Annual Health Priority Action Plan: details our planned yearly actions to address each of the health priorities. 

Ongoing monitoring and performance reporting 

 

 

 

Progress reporting:

  • 4-year community outcome measures:  track things like health, liveability and sustainability over the medium-long term. While these are not direct measures of Council performance, they help us to understand whether our community is experiencing positive change in the areas we seek to influence.

Performance measures track how Council is delivering its services and managing operations and finances. We do this through: 

  • monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to show progress on the delivery of these strategic documents
  • Annual Health Plan Evaluation
  • Ongoing monitoring and review.

We also have responsibilities set by the Victorian and Australian Governments. This means we sometimes need to deliver actions or services that aren’t in the plan but are required by law or other government policy. We are transparent about this and balance these obligations with our community priorities.

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