Draft Community Engagement Strategy 2021-24

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

At the Ordinary Council Meeting held on Wednesday 24 November 2021 the Council endorsed the draft Community Engagement Strategy for placing on public exhibition for a period of 42 days from Friday 26 November to Thursday 6 January 2022.

Councils in NSW are required to have a Community Engagement Strategy for how they will engage the community in creating and reviewing the Community Strategic Plan (CSP). The strategy must be based on social justice principles, identifying relevant stakeholder groups in the community, outline the methods that the council will use to engage each of these groups and allow sufficient time to effectively undertake the engagement.

Even though it is a statutory requirement for a Community Engagement Strategy to be created when developing a council’s CSP this strategy seeks to broaden that scope to cover all of council’s engagement activities when developing and delivering projects and initiatives.

This strategy outlines the methodology council will adopt when preparing to engage with the community and assist residents and other council stakeholders to understand how and when council will engage on issues that affect their future.

The draft Community Engagement Strategy will sit alongside a suite of engagement documents including the adopted Community Engagement Policy and a Community Engagement Guide and Toolkit currently in development.

Send in a submission: CLOSED

Submissions close Thursday 6 January 2021.
Please be aware that if you make a submission, other people may have access to your comments and your name. This may be as a result of a report to a Council meeting. Reports to Council Meetings are available to the public.