The Council Plan is the Council’s shared vision and commitment to the community for the next four years, including the outcomes it wants to see, what it will focus on to achieve these, how it will resource the plan and how it will measure progress.

At the City of Melbourne the Council Plan incorporates the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan that seeks to protect, improve and promote public health and wellbeing within the municipal district.

Both the Council Plan and Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan are statutory requirements and must be delivered in the year following an election.

The Annual Plan and Budget describes the services, initiatives and major initiatives to be funded for the financial year, including service performance outcome indicators for monitoring performance. The budget must contain financial statements and other information including capital works, human resources, grants and rating information as prescribed by the Local Government Act regulations.

The Annual Plan and Budget is a statutory requirement and must be delivered by 30 June each year.

The community’s 10-year vision for the city, Future Melbourne, was refreshed last year. This process included extensive community consultation, including a citizen’s jury. The Future Melbourne 2026 plan has shaped the development of Council’s four-year Plan and Councillors have worked over the last six months to prepare this plan and the Annual Plan and Budget to present to the community for feedback.

The Council Plan and Annual Plan and Budget will be endorsed by Council at the Council Meeting on Tuesday 27 June 2017.