What you need to know
Our blueprint for the next four years building a healthy city.
What is the Community Vision?
Our community vision for Moonee Valley in 2040 (MV2040) is a great place to live, work and visit, strengthened by a network of 20-minute neighbourhoods.
Our vision statement was refreshed in 2021, to include addressing climate change and recognition of our diverse community.
You can learn more about our community vision and what we have planned to improve the health, vibrancy and resilience of our city over the next two decades by taking a deep dive into our MV2040 website.
What is the Council Plan?
The Council Plan sets our strategic direction and focus for what we aim to achieve during each four-year Council term.
Each part of our Council Plan aligns with our community vision and long-term Strategy, MV2040.
It details how we will implement our MV2040 vision, and will guide us as we work to build a healthy city that is fair, thriving, connected, green and beautiful.
What is the Health Plan?
The Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plan outlines actions to enable people living in our city to achieve optimum health and wellbeing.
For the second time, we integrated our Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plan into the Council Plan, as part of our commitment to our community vision of 'A healthy city'.
Scroll to learn more about how we're tackling inequity, and prioritising health and wellbeing for all our populations below.
Not sure what Council does? It’s more than just rates, roads and rubbish!
Keep scrolling to find out how the Council Plan is built into the way we work every day.
How to read the plan
These keywords will help you understand how all the elements of the plan work together.
Council Plan Strategies
The strategies contribute to addressing our city’s health and wellbeing needs and are structured according to MV2040 themes. These strategies will also help us recover from the COVID-19 pandemic over the next four years. These strategies address the priorities the community has asked us to focus on throughout our engagement activities.
Council Plan initiatives
The initiatives to achieve each strategy will be developed and reviewed annually. These are specific actions we will work on each year to deliver on our four-year strategies.
Integrated strategic indicators
The Plan identifies strategic indicators that are guided by frameworks, including the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework. These integrated indicators allow Council to measure progress against the Council Plan strategic objectives and the longer-term MV2040 strategic directions.
Our 2021-25 Council Plan Strategies
The Council Plan outlines 21 strategies that we will focus on over the next four years. Each year, we will create an annual plan showing the initiatives we will deliver over the next twelve months that will help us achieve our strategies.
F1. Celebrate Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung culture and heritage and promote social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, by delivering the Reconciliation Plan.
F2. Promote social and cultural inclusion and support the mental health needs of our youth and the broader community, by delivering targeted initiatives and programs.
F3. Prevent violence against women and families and support those experiencing it to access appropriate help, by working with partner organisations.
F4. Support people living with a disability, the elderly and carers to have healthy, active and independent lives, by delivering the Disability Action Plan.
F5. Support local families to give children the best possible start in life, by developing and delivering a Family and Children's Framework including consideration of infrastructure needs.
F6. Provide safe, accessible and welcoming places for all to access services, by delivering environmentally sustainable community hubs.
F7. Show the community our progress towards the MV2040 strategy, by developing and delivering a reporting framework.
F8. Support young people in our city to participate in decision-making, advocacy and community life by developing and delivering a youth-led program of initiatives.
T1. Help local businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, grow the local economy including a diverse night-time economy, and create more local jobs, by providing support through targeted programs and other initiatives.
T2. Support all members of the community to take part in sport and recreation, by developing and delivering sustainable facilities.
T3. Encourage our community to continue learning throughout their life, by expanding the reach of our library collections, services and programs.
T4. Support and enable local creative artists and industries, celebrate our local community and activate local spaces, by developing and delivering targeted initiatives and programs.
C1. Encourage active transport and physical activity, by providing a safe, accessible and connected network of suitable walking and cycling infrastructure.
C2. Improve sustainable and accessible transport options across the city, by strongly advocating for better access to reliable public transport.
C3. Reduce road trauma, congestion, pollution, travel times and parking issues, and increase road safety, by developing and delivering targeted solutions.
G1. Help reduce our city’s carbon emissions, by facilitating the most cost-effective, evidence-based Council and community projects, including implementing the Green Action Plan, with the Community Climate Emissions Reduction Reserve.
G2. Cool our city, by growing our urban forest and delivering integrated water management strategies.
G3. Reduce waste going to landfill, by working with community partners, other councils and the state government.
B1. Improve community access to nature by creating new parks and enhancing and protecting existing open spaces and waterways.
B2. Implement appropriate land use controls across the city, including reformed residential zones, and facilitate the delivery of a mix of housing, by continuing to develop Neighbourhood Plans.
B3. Enrich our neighbourhoods’ unique identities, by continuing to identify and protect places of local heritage significance.
- Customers and communications
- People
- Systems and knowledge
- Finance and assets
- Governance
What we’re focusing on for 2021/22
These initiatives form our annual plan. They will be supported by the services, facilities and programs that Council delivers daily to safeguard and improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of our community.
F1.1 Implement the 2021/22 items in the Reconciliation plan.
F2.1 Ensure programs are available and accessible to our community, especially to target populations, to address health and social inequalities and support people to engage in activities to promote their wellbeing.
F2.2 Partner with volunteer organisations to increase volunteer engagement within the City.
F2.3 Celebrate, acknowledge, include and raise the visibility of LGBTIQA+ community members in celebrations, events and activities.
F3.1 Partner with Moonee Valley Legal Service to support the Moonee Valley Family Violence Network.
F3.2 Implement the relevant 2021/22 actions within the Elder Abuse Prevention Plan.
F4.1 Implement the relevant actions in the current Disability Action Plan and commence development of a new Plan.
F5.1 Commence the development of a Families and Children’s Framework.
F6.1 Complete construction of the Keilor East Leisure Centre.
F6.2 Start construction of the Flemington Hub.
F7.1 Launch the MV2040 and Council Plan website.
T1.1 Evaluate the Outdoor Trading Program and identify programs and policies that would benefit businesses in Moonee Valley in the future and help them recover from the impacts of COVID-19.
T1.2 Progress the Moonee Ponds Activity Centre Streetscapes and Public Spaces Plan.
T1.3 Complete the designs for the Keilor Road (Niddrie) Precinct.
T2.1 Progress the delivery of key sporting and recreation projects within the municipality, including BMX and mountain bike facilities.
T3.1 Launch Council’s mobile library van to extend the reach of our library and learning opportunities and services.
T3.2 Complete the designs for the upgrade of the Flemington Library to increase accessibility of the facility.
T4.1 Commence engagement with the community and the creative sector to develop a draft Arts and Culture Plan.
C1.1 Progress the delivery of key active travel projects and programs, for example along Moonee Ponds Creek, Rosehill Park to Steel Creek Path.
C2.1 Advocate for a Western Gateway train station in Airport West and optimise opportunities that align with our advocacy strategy.
C3.1 Progress the delivery of key transport projects and programs, for example the delivery the Better Moves Around Schools and the Local Area Traffic Management program.
G1.1 Support the community to reduce carbon emissions through programs, education and other initiatives, and engaging with the community on the reduction priorities.
G2.1 Continue to plant more trees in streets and reserves to increase canopy cover and reduce urban heat island impacts.
G2.2 Deliver projects that improve integrated water management outcomes, by using stormwater for irrigation and reducing waterway pollution.
G3.1 Develop an action plan to increase diversion of key materials from landfill for recycling.
B1.1 Commence the naturalisation of Moonee Ponds Creek in collaboration with key partners and stakeholders.
B1.2 Complete community engagement and draft a concept plan for a regional playground in Rosehill Park.
B2.1 Progress plans for the Airport West and Keilor East neighbourhoods.
How we’ll measure our success
Our Integrated MV2040, Council Plan and Health Plan Strategic Indicators will help us measure our achievements over the next four years.
Our visual summaries
Not a fan of long, corporate documents? Flip through these visual summaries, including:
- Acknowledgement of Country & Statement of commitment
- MV2040 Community Vision, MV2040 Strategic Directions and Council Plan Strategic Objectives
- 4 Year Council Plan Strategies
- 2021/22 Council Plan Initiatives
- Integrated MV2040, Council and Health Plan Strategic Indicators
- If Moonee Valley was 100 People Infographic
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