Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to outline Council’s ongoing commitment to engage with the City of Casey’s diverse communities, community groups and stakeholders. We will actively encourage participation in engagement opportunities to help support meaningful conversations with our diverse communities, community groups and stakeholders. This will help us to better reflect our community members’ needs, priorities and expectations in Council’s activities and decision-making process.
Objectives
Our Community Engagement Policy has been developed with input from community members and is underpinned by the following engagement aims:
- Create a consistent best practice approach to the City of Casey’s engagement
- Make it easy to find engagement opportunities and to receive updates about them
- Ensure Council has a clear purpose and objectives for undertaking engagement
- Clearly communicate how feedback is used to guide Council outcomes or decision making.
- Deliver deliberative engagement in line with community preferences
- Meet our legislative requirements under relevant Acts, including the Local Government Act 2020
- Embed appropriate monitoring and evaluation in engagement practices
- Ensure that diversity in participation and viewpoints is supported and encouraged
Scope
This policy applies to community engagement processes followed by Council. It is expected that other agencies’ work in the City of Casey local government area use the policy as a guide for their own practice.