Community Sustainability through Local Area Planning

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Community Sustainability through Local Area
Planning

• A Partnership
• Moira Shire City of Boroondara and the
  Department for Victorian Communities

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Community Sustainability

• Definition-
• The long-term continuity of social, cultural,
  economic, democratic and environmental health and
  prosperity of a community.

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Community Sustainability

• Community sustainability is the responsibility
  of all levels of government and the private
  sector and reporting on relevant measures does
  not necessarily imply that the organisation is
  directly responsible for any adverse trends in
  performance.
• The establishment of clear indicators and
  targets is dependant on answering five simple
  questions
• What needs to be measured?
• Who needs to know what?
• When or how often does it need to be measured and
  reported?
• How is the information best presented?
• Why have the information? i.e. what is the result
  or action?

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Community Sustainability

• Ultimately, each Council needs to decide for
  itself what performance measures are important
  and the information that needs to be collected
  and reported upon.
• Some critical questions to consider in
  identifying the most appropriate community
  sustainability indicators are as follows
• How do these indicators link back into the
  strategic planning process?
• How do they assist in community planning and
  decision making
• processes?
• Who will use this data and for what purpose?
• How wide is the coverage eg is it a Shire-wide
  scorecard with information across the board for
  government (local, state, federal), business and
  the community?
• If it is a broadly based scorecard not confined
  to direct linkage to Councils strategic plan, is
  this a role (collection and reporting) that
  Council wishes to take on?

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Moira Boroondara Process

• Workshop to identify current practices at each
  Council including Community and Stakeholder
  Consultation which identified strengths and
  weaknesses
• Establish a Local Area Planning Hierarchy
• Establish framework for Performance Management
• Develop Sustainability Scorecards
• Complete project summary and submit final report

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Workshop Outcomes Consultation Methods

• Booroondara
• Major target is through Boroondara Voice which
  involves 800 members of the community recruited
  to participate.
• Moira
• Major target is through 23 Community Action
  Groups involving 120 members.

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Planning Hierarchy and Performance Management
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WHAT HAVE WEACHIEVED?
PLANNINGFOREXCELLENCE
Community VisionAspirations, Needs and
WantsSource Data and Community
InputConsultation, Research, (Community
Reference Panel), Benchmarking
Council

• Council Plan
• Strategic Objectives for the Council Term
• Strategic Resource Plan Including Standard
  Statements
• Council Plan Strategies

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• Department Business Plan
• Includes
• Department Strategy
• Key Strategic Activities
• Budget Initiatives Actions
• Action Plans
• Performance Measures
• Benchmarking
• Service Profiles

• Community Well-Being Outcomes
• Examples of Measures
• Community Indicators of Well-Being
• Council Plan Strategic Indicators

• Operational Processes and Procedures
• Examples
• Resource Plan
• Training Plan
• Contracts and Tenders

DemonstratedEfficiency Effectiveness
Excellence Outcomes

• Individual Objectives
• Examples
• Performance Evaluation Objectives
• Learning and Development Plan
• Position Descriptions

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Performance Management and the Planning Hierarchy
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Scorecard Reporting Methods Frequency
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Measures and Current Reporting

• Moira
• Best Value Cost and Quality Measures
• Community Satisfaction Survey
• Local Government Indicators
• Key Strategic Activities (Performance Statement)
• Key Activities (Actions) contained within Council
  Plan
• Business Planning Actions for Departments
• Directorate, Business Unit Actions linked to
  service delivery

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Moira Goals and Outcomes

• Goal 1 LIVEABLE SHIRE
• Outcome
• Effective management and maintenance of Council
  assets
• Planning and building control for a vitalised
  community
• Goal 2 HEALTHY LIVING
• Outcome
• A healthy, vibrant, well serviced community
• A comprehensive, well researched social plan that
  recognises and values the past,
• identifies current needs and plans for the
  future
• Continue to support and advocate for measures to
  provide for an ongoing safe
• environment for the community
• Goal 3 GROWING SHIRE
• Outcome
• Business development opportunities that support
  economic development
• A vibrant tourism industry
• Goal 4 OUR ENVIRONMENT

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Measures and Current Reporting

• Boroondara
• Best Value Cost and Quality Measures
• Community Satisfaction Survey
• Local Government Indicators
• Key Strategic Activities (Performance Statement)
• Key Activities (Actions/Indicators) contained
  within Council Plan
• Business Planning Actions for Departments
• Directorate, Business Unit Actions linked to
  service delivery

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Boroondara Community Wellbeing Indicators

• DOMAIN Healthy, safe and inclusive communities
• Crime
• Number of offences recorded annually by Victoria
  Police for Boroondara 2006-2007 year
• Safety and Security
• Percentage of Boroondara residents who feel very
  safe or safe in own home at night
• Pathways of Year12 school leavers
• Percentage of Year12 school leavers from
  Boroondara schools in education, training or
  employment
• Volunteering
• Percentage of Boroondara residents who help out
  as a volunteer
• Health Well-being
• Percentage of Boroondara residents who had walked
  continuously for at least 10 minutes in previous
  week
• Support for Working Parents
• Number of long day care and family day care
  places available in Boroondara
• DOMAIN Dynamic, resilient local economies
• Unemployment Rate
• Unemployment rate (percentage) for Boroondara
• DOMAIN Sustainable built and natural
  environments
• Residents Perception of Traffic Congestion
  Access to Parking Facilities

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Community Sustainability Indicators

• A range of indicators have been developed as a
  sample of what could be used by Local Government
  to measure sustainability. These are to be
  reviewed as part of the final phase of the
  project and will naturally differ from Council to
  Council.

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Economic Sustainability

• Business
• New business start-ups (less closures) as a of
  total businesses
• Retained retail spending
• Number of Bankruptcies
• Employment
• Employment to Population Ratio
• Employment Rate
• Unemployment Rate
• Net Change in Jobs by Industry Sector
• Percentage of 15-20 year olds enrolled in
  vocational / education
• and training courses
• Exports
• Export income (by industry sector)

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Economic Sustainability

• Infrastructure
• Public and private sector new engineering
  construction
• Population
• Estimated resident population
• (or Change in estimated resident population
• Net interstate migration
• Net overseas migration
• Property
• Property average capital value
• (residential, commercial/industrial, primary
  production)

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Environmental Sustainability

• Air Quality
• Number of days when regional air quality is below
  the Days
• EPAs good air quality index range (34-66)
• Biodiversity
• Area of native vegetation under active
  management Ha
• Number of species at risk (fauna and flora)
• Climate Change
• Change in greenhouse gas emissions
• (or Greenhouse gas emissions by sector Tonnes
  (CO2-e)
• Change in energy consumption by sector
  (household, commercial, Industrial)
• Energy consumption per property kWh
• (or Annual average household electricity
  consumption) kWh
• Electricity consumption by sector
• Energy efficiency index (residential, commercial,
  industrial)

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Environmental Sustainability

• Soil Management
• Area of productive land affected by soil
  erosion Ha
• Area of land affected by dryland salinity Ha
• Waste Management
• Waste diverted from landfill
• Annual waste to landfill per household (excluding
  greenwaste) kg
• Recycling (diversion) rate (recycling/total waste
  generation) excluding green waste
• Water
• Potable water consumption KL
• Water consumption per household per year KL
• River Murray environmental flows GL
• River Murray salinity level Ec
• Wastewater reuse (residential, commercial,
  industrial) ML
• Percentage of reclaimed water reused )
• Water supplied per property kL
• Condition of natural streams and
  waterways Rating

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Social Sustainability

• Community Strength
• Percentage of people who can get help from
  friends,
• family or neighbours when needed
• Percentage of people who like living in their
  local community
• Percentage of residents who are members of an
  organised group
• Percentage of community groups who have taken
  local action
• Disadvantage
• SEIFA Index of disadvantage score
• Education
• Highest qualification achieved by community
  members
• (by qualification category) or
• Percentage of residents who have completed year
  12 or equivalent

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Social Sustainability

• Health
• Life expectancy at birth (male and
  female) Years
• Morbidity rate (by disease category)
• Mortality rate (by type, age, gender)
• Services as good or excellent)
• Percentage of residents who are living with a
  mental disorder
• Percentage of residents living in the region who
  rate their
• health as good, very good or excellent
• Percentage of residents getting adequate exercise
  to derive
• health benefits
• Community satisfaction with regional health
  services (by category)
• (or Percentage of residents who rate the
  availability of health

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Social Sustainability

• Housing Affordability
• Median house prices
• Percentage of people in housing stress (spending
  more than
• 30 of their income on rent or mortgage)
• Percentage of the resident population receiving
  rent assistance
• Income
• Average household income per region
• Average individual taxable income
• Percentage of people who could raise 2000 in 2
  days in an emergency
• Information Access
• Internet usage in the community
• Safety
• Offences against the person per 1000 people
• Serious criminal trespass per 1000 people
• Percentage of people who feel safe on their
  street, alone after dark

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Social Sustainability

• Services Access
• Availability of key local services Checklist
• Retained retail spending
• Percentage of people who rate access to the
  required range of
• retail services as being good or excellent
• Sport Recreation
• Percentage of residents participating in
  organised sporting activities
• Percentage of residents who think sport and
  recreation
• facilities are good or excellent
• Percentage of residents who rate facilities for
  teenagers as
• good or excellent
• Volunteerism
• Volunteer rate for the Shire

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Cultural Sustainability

• Events
• Participation in community events or
• Participation in cultural and heritage
  activities
• (by category eg community events, historical
  sites etc) or )
• Percentage of residents that have attended a
  community
• event in the last 6 months)
• Multiculturalism
• Percentage of residents born overseas by
  country
• Percentage of people who speak a language other
• than English
• Percentage of people who thinks multiculturalism
  makes
• their lives better

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Democracy Sustainability

• Voting
• Percentage of eligible voters who participated in
• government elections (local, state, federal)
• Percentage of residents interested in becoming
  involved in
• community decision making
• Percentage or women who run for Council
• Percentage of women elected as Councillors

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Where to From Here

• Both Councils will review current indicators that
  are used and confirm what indicators are
  applicable for the services provided.
• Both Councils to review draft sustainability
  indicators and confirm what indicators are
  applicable to for the services provided.
• It is acknowledged through this process that
  whilst a common theme can be established in
  relation to Community Sustainability, Councils
  differ in the area of service provision and
  therefore whilst a set of measures may be
  developed each Council must select those
  applicable to them.
• In addition, the way each Council implements its
  Performance Management Framework may also vary
  depending on the structure of the organisation
  and the level of planning that either currently
  exists or is to be developed in the future.
• Ultimately our Council or your Council may not be
  in a position to implement Community
  Sustainability through Local Area Planning
  however we hope that we can provide you with the
  means to get there when you are ready.

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Parting Thought

• The Chinese have a saying that goes something
  like this
• "When someone shares with you something of
  value,  You have an obligation to share it with
  others!"

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