Last Thursday evening, Armidale Dumaresq Council (ADC) hosted the launch of its ADC Community Strategic Plan.
After 18 months of community engagement, the Plan has been made to accommodate the wishes and priorities to steer the direction for the next 15 years.
The occasion was well attended, with interested community members keen to review the document and sub-documents explaining the Plan in more detail. Community members included representatives from the UNE and schools, businesses, clubs, the indigenous community, youth, the elderly, and ADC staff and councillors. Other groups not present have contributed to the Plan.
“The community can be proud of the quality of the document produced,” said the Mayor Peter Ducat.
“I encourage the community to read the document and then follow Council’s progress.” Mr Ducat thanked the staff for the huge task of organising all the opinions and aspirations of the community within the document.
General Manager Shane Burns made a presentation of the Plan.
“This is the most robust process I’ve ever seen in local government,” said Mr Burns.
“In the past, councils have developed plans only looking at their own operations. This new approach provides an integrated and holistic approach to community planning.”
Mr Burns went on to outline how the Plan contains 21 strategic objectives, 62 strategic goals, a 15-year time frame, and 63 performance/success indicators. These encompass a quadruple bottom line format addressing: people, environment, infrastructure and governance.
Anyone may visit Council’s Civic Administration Building or website to view the ADC Community Strategic Plan and Council’s Resourcing Strategy, plus the more detailed Four Year Delivery Program and the Operational Plan 2011-2012.
The Four Year Delivery Program outlines the strategies and projects Council and other service agencies will undertake in a given timeframe to achieve the Community Strategic Plan. The Operational Plan gives an even closer annual break-down.
