Managing community assets

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Monday, 24 February 2025

How should Council manage community assets worth $1.237 billion? Join the community panel to help develop the Asset Plan, expression of interest applications close 16 March.

Community assets are at the heart of what we do. We need assets to deliver services that are valued and needed by our growing and diverse community.

Council manages a large portfolio of community assets, including buildings, roads, car parks, footpaths, drains, bushland and playgrounds. For the next 10 years, Council has a budget of $698.3 million to manage community assets, and we are developing our Asset Plan to guide how we do this.

We are not starting from scratch. Over the last year we have been developing our Council Plan, Health and Wellbeing Plan and the Financial Plan. The Strategies define our service priorities and financial conditions that will inform how we manage our assets into the future. This work was informed by broad community engagement as well as a community panel that met four times to develop recommendations for Council to consider when drafting these strategies.

For the development of the Asset Plan we will again use a panel of community members to provide feedback to Council. This type of community engagement has been selected because it gives participants the opportunity to collaborate closely with Council to understand the dilemmas we are facing when balancing identified community priorities and long-term financial sustainability.

The Panel will produce recommendations to be considered by Council when preparing the Asset Plan 2025 – 2035.

We are looking for people in our community who would like to participate in this final step of planning Knox’s future.

If you are interested in the Knox community and would like to contribute to the decision-making process, we would like to hear from you. You do not need to have any prior knowledge to take part.

Community panel members will need to attend 2 workshops:

Wednesday 16 April, 6pm to 8pm
Wednesday 7 May, 6pm to 8pm

The sessions will be held in person in Knoxfield. Participants will be reimbursed with a total of $150 in Coles vouchers for participating in both sessions. You do not need to have any prior knowledge to take part.

Expression of Interest closes 16 March 2025. Apply on our Have your say website.

An independent consultant will select community panel members to ensure that this group is representative of our diverse community.

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