Community engagement update - May 2021

We started the community consultation activities in early 2020. However, a lot of this needed to be put on hold due to COVID 19.

To date, consultation activities have included a Community-wide online survey (November 2019 to February 2020,) six face-to-face workshops at local community halls (February 2020,) a session with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members, with young people at schools and with members of our senior population in February 2021.

These activities provided Council will excellent ideas and feedback from a cross-section of our community.

We then summarised what you had told us so far and asked the community to complete an on line feedback form on Your Say Lismore. The aim of this was to check back in, to find out if the same things were important to others within the community and to see if anything had changed as a result of the year that we’d had.

This feedback period ran from late March to 3 May 2021.

To the right is the life cycle of this project which details the steps we take when developing the Community Strategic Plan and the other Integrated Planning and Reporting documents. As you can see, next steps in this process will be for Council staff to collate all feedback from the community consultation exercises to present to the newly elected Council.