Have Your Say

Community Chats

Involve

You Matter. Your Perspective Matters.

Community conversations is a way for you to engage with us in a new and welcoming way. We want you to feel uninhibited and share any ideas or concerns you may have for your community. We want to hear what local communities issues are important to you, what you love and what you don’t love, and figure out a way forward together.

What to expect

Using a world café style of engagement, we will chat about what people care about in their specific area and how they see their local community issues. We will explore community issues and how we can work together to achieve outcomes and solutions.

What happens after

We will collate what we hear from the community and provide responses back to the community following this session. We are aware that there may be some community issues that are beyond our control. We will endeavour to provide a response to all the issues and questions.

Upcoming Community Chats

Keep an eye out for our location’s and dates in 2023

Background

At the January 2022 Ordinary Council meeting, the General Manager announced an initiative to help increase engagement with our community on the progress of important initiatives. The introduction of community conversations within local communities are an opportunity for residents, community groups and businesses to work with Council to identify priorities and issues in  their local communities.

Update - Ranelagh/Lucaston

On Thursday 8 December around 10 community members along with Council staff attended our Community Chat session at Ranelagh. Our Community Engagement Officer, Lisa Plohl, facilitated the event and led participants into a ‘world café’ style of engagement. Everyone had the opportunity to talk about things that matter to them and explore positive outcomes and solutions.

You can view all the information that we gathered HERE

Thank you to all who came and for sharing your ideas with us.

Update - Franklin

On Thursday 15 September around 6 community members along with Council staff attended our Community Chat session at Franklin. Our Community Engagement Officer, Lisa Plohl, facilitated the event and led participants into a ‘world café’ style of engagement. Everyone had the opportunity to talk about things that matter to them and explore positive outcomes and solutions.

You can view all the information that we gathered HERE

Thank you to all who came and for sharing your ideas with us.

Please note; there was no Table Two

Update - Glen Huon, Judbury and Lonnavale

On Thursday 4 August around 7 people attended our Community Chat session at Judbury. Our Community Engagement Officer, Lisa Plohl, facilitated the event and led participants into a ‘world café’ style of engagement. Everyone had the opportunity to talk about things that matter to them and explore positive outcomes and solutions.

You can view all the information that we gathered HERE

Thank you to all who came and for sharing your ideas with us.

Please note; there was no Table Two

Update - Mountain River, Grove and Crabtree

On Tuesday 28 June around 15 people attended our first Community Chat session at Mountain River. Our Community Engagement Officer, Lisa Plohl, facilitated the event and led participants into a ‘world café’ style of engagement. Everyone had the opportunity to talk about things that matter to them and explore positive outcomes and solutions.

You can view all the information that we gathered HERE

Thank you to all who came and for sharing your ideas with us.

Key Dates

  • 28/6/2022 Mountain River, Crabtree and Grove session
  • 4/8/2022 Glen Huon, Lonnavale and Judbury session
  • 15/9/2022 Franklin session
  • 24/11/2022 Ranelagh and Lucaston session

Project Cycle

  1. Mountain River, Crabtree and Grove session
  2. Glen Huon, Lonnavale and Judbury session
  3. Franklin session
  4. Ranelagh and Lucaston session