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Council Plan 2025-29
A Council Plan outlines the priorities of the Council and Councillors over the 4 years of a council term, to achieve MV2040.
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Our blueprint for the next four years in building a healthy, vibrant and welcoming community.
About this Plan
The Local Government Act 2020 requires every local government in Victoria to prepare a Council Plan every four years, by 31 October in the year following a general election of the Council. A council plan outlines what the organisation and the councillor group intend to achieve over the 4 years of the Council term.
The Council Plan has a Woi-wurrung title: Balit, yingore, munda ba gadhabith marra. Translated this means 'healthy, vibrant and welcoming community', a key phrase from the refreshed MV2040 Community Vision Statement. We thank Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Aunty Gail Smith for providing language.
An integrated approach
Council is committed to enabling a community where all people can participate. We’ve taken an integrated approach to planning for key community outcomes to ensure that everything we do is singularly focussed and that our priorities and commitments are complimentary, therefore being most efficient and effective. This Plan combines the Council Plan, the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan and the Disability Action Plan.
Developing the Plan
The content of this Plan was developed based on social research and community engagement, as required under the Local Government Act 2020. Read about the extensive engagement process on our Shaping our future Your Say page.
Disability Action Plan (DAP)
Council seeks to improve access to services to enhance inclusion and empower people with disability, neurodivergent people, their families and carers in our community to actively participate in community life.
Council will continue to collaborate with its Disability Advisory Committee (DAC) to uphold, promote, and protect the rights of people with disability, neurodivergent people and carers.
The DAC provides advice, identifies barriers to equity and guides Council, with the intent of empowering people with disabilities. Participants comprise a diverse range of disability experiences, a breadth of intersectional identities and live in all wards of the city; it aims to be representative of the Moonee Valley community. Relevant initiatives from the Plan are brought to the DAC to ensure that the lived experience of disability can be incorporated to achieve meaningful outcomes for the community.
Engagement with residents, key stakeholders and the DAC throughout 2024 and 2025 has informed the priorities for action. They are interrelated and consistent with the priorities of the State disability plan and include:
- building workforce capacity in Council’s service delivery teams to increase inclusion
- supporting people with a disability, neurodivergent people and carers to live healthy and active lives, through both targeted initiatives and more accessible and inclusive mainstream services
- continued advocacy for improved local and accessible mental health services in Moonee Valley
- making Council’s communications and engagement processes more inclusive and accessible.
Health and Wellbeing Plan
In accordance with the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 all Victorian councils are required to prepare municipal public health and wellbeing plans. The plans are to be prepared by 31 October in the year following a general election of the Council.
These plans must enable people living in the municipality to achieve optimum health and wellbeing and prevent and minimise public health dangers, and have measures to prevent family violence and respond to the needs of victims of family violence in the local community.
Working to achieve a healthy, vibrant and welcoming community is central to the community vision and is at the heart of all that Council does. This goal supports Council’s role in municipal public health and wellbeing planning, and integration of the Health Plan with the Council Plan ensures Council’s holistic approach to health and wellbeing. We believe that good health status is influenced by many factors associated with the social, economic, political and environmental landscape within which we live, including our relationships and social connections, financial and employment status, and housing situation.
Through understanding the key health needs of our community, Council is able to provide opportunities for people to make healthy choices and experience positive health outcomes.
The Moonee Valley Health and Wellbeing Profile 2024 (DOCX, 12.4 MB) presents data relating to many indicators of health status within the community. The outstanding issues have informed the health and wellbeing priorities of the Council Plan 2025-29.
Council focuses on addressing the modifiable risk factors of preventable diseases as this is how we can best work to improve the health and wellbeing of the community. Modifiable risk factors, such as smoking or a poor diet, are known to contribute to the preventable burden of disease, and lifestyle diseases such as cancer, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
Engagement with residents, health agencies and community groups throughout 2024 and 2025, and a review of research and policy has informed the health priorities for action. They are interrelated and consistent with the priorities of the Victorian Health and Wellbeing Plan 2023-2027 and include:
- preventing gender-based and family violence
- tackling climate change and its impacts on health
- improving mental health
- increasing active living
- increasing healthy eating and food security.
Delivering on the Council Plan
MV2040 has 6 themes that support the delivery of the Community Vision – Fair, Thriving, Connected, Green, Beautiful and Trusted. Each theme is accompanied by a guiding statement which provides the strategic directions to be achieved over the long term. These themes and the strategic directions provide the pillars of the Council Plan 2025-29.
Under these 6 themes and strategic directions, the Council Plan also has 23 strategic objectives, taken from MV2040. A strategic objective is a measurable goal that Council aims to achieve in order to address our community’s priorities. Each strategic objective has an associated outcomes statement, to help us know if we’re succeeding.
The Council Plan 2025-29 includes a range of strategies. These strategies outline how we will achieve the priorities set out in our strategic objectives over the next 4 years. Priority initiatives, which are specific pieces of work that Council will undertake, are also outlined.
We’ll publish the plans once they have been endorsed and finalised.
The Annual Plan 2025-26 (PDF, 648 KB) supplements the Council Plan and details the specific initiatives scheduled for completion in the financial year. The initiatives align to the strategies, demonstrating how the strategic objectives and strategic directions will be delivered, which contribute to the realisation of the community vision. These include major budget initiatives.
The strategic indicators of the Council Plan provide the mechanism for measuring how the objectives of the Plan are being achieved. Each indicator includes a measure and a measurement is conducted at least annually to understand how Council is progressing against the desired outcomes. By tracking our performance against the indicators we can have more certainty about how we are achieving the objectives of the Council Plan and MV2040, and ultimately how we are working to realise the community vision.
Reporting on the Council Plan
Implementation of this plan is reported on in accordance with the Local Government Act 2020, Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, Disability Act 2006. We do this through preparing interim status reports on completion of the initiatives, and preparing an annual report at the end of each financial year.
All of our past Quarterly and Annual Reports can be found by following this link.
Access the Council Plan
We will also provide the following accessible versions once they are finalised:
- Designed PDF version (PDF, 2.15 MB)
- Plain text Word version
- Easy Read summary
- Auslan summary video
- Audio summary
We’ll also provide translated summaries in these languages once they are finalised:
- Vietnamese
- Simplified Chinese
- Oromo
- Arabic
- Greek
- Italian
Previous Council plans
2021-2025 Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan
- Summary - Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed pdf, 8.55 MB)
- Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed PDF, 14.5 MB)
- Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (accessible doc, 318 MB)
Easy English versions
- Our Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (accessible PDF, 5.76 MB)
- About Moonee Valley City Council 2021-2025 (accessible PDF, 4.48 MB)
Translated versions
- Arabic – translated summary of Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed PDF, 547 KB)
- Simplified Chinese – translated summary of Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed PDF, 386 KB)
- Somali – translated summary of Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed PDF, 288 KB)
- Turkish – translated summary of Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed PDF, 302 KB)
- Vietnamese – translated summary of Community Vision, Council Plan and Health Plan 2021-2025 (designed PDF, 319 KB)
Check on our annual progress
The Council Plan is a medium-term plan that sets out our strategic direction and focus for what we aim to achieve during the 4-year Council term. The Annual Report is where we report on our progress.