The City of Casey’s largest consultation campaign, Shape Your City has recorded feedback from more than 6,400 people.
The engagement program aimed to capture the voices of people who live, work and play in Casey, to identify what matters most to them in their local area.
Virtual community forums, workshops, facilitated conversations and online surveys provided residents with a chance to say what matters most to them as the City of Casey plans for future infrastructure and service delivery.
Shape Your City also brought to life Council’s commitment to ensuring the diverse voices of our community are reflected in future decisions.
Over the campaign, 6,477 people provided feedback, which included 3,893 completed surveys. Participation in this Council Plan engagement increased by more than 50 percent compared to the last campaign of this type, four years ago.
Respondents indicated that green, open space, community safety, and roads and public transport were a top priority.
City of Casey chair of administrators Noelene Duff said it was fantastic to see so many people share their thoughts, and that the Council looked forward to incorporating this feedback into its planning.
“The Shape Your City campaign has captured ideas, thoughts and suggestions from our community through representative engagement opportunities, to ensure the future decisions we make best reflect what they want to see for their community,” Ms Duff said.
“This feedback will also inform our next Council Plan and Council Vision, both of which are important strategic documents that guide the direction of Casey over the next four to ten years.
“To ensure Council captured as many diverse views as possible, we also targeted our communications towards CALD audiences and special interest groups in Casey, to uncover never heard before voices. This has resulted in responses from a good distribution of age, gender, and geographic locations, as well as significant representation across a range of diverse communities throughout Casey.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who participated in our engagement activities, especially during a year with so many added challenges. The breadth of feedback received is demonstrative of how passionate our community is.”
Council will now analyse the results and further engage to get a better understanding of what the data means. These insights will also inform the last stage of our engagement program, where community members will be asked to deliberate on key questions to help guide council decision making about Casey’s future.
To find out more about this next stage of engagement or to keep updated on how it progresses, follow Casey Conversations.
