Community engagement at Glen Eira aims to be meaningful, inclusive and effective.

Engaging with residents, groups, businesses, and organisations is vital in building relationships, enhancing community capacity, and ensuring we make well-informed decisions. Our Community Engagement Policy and Strategy is our promise to the community to undertake best-practice engagement.

We use different types of engagement to elicit feedback from diverse groups, such as children and young people or groups at risk of not being represented. Community engagement for our Housing Strategy included in-person drop-in sessions, online surveys, webinars, and inviting phone calls and written submissions.

A range of community engagement activities helped set our Budget 2022–2023 priorities. These included a Glen Eira Deliberative Citizens’ Panel, an interactive budget simulation tool, and long-term financial recommendations from a group representing residents and stakeholders.

We advocate for projects that are important to the community and make our City more sustainable, liveable and inclusive. With federal and state elections in 2022, we will be proactively seeking funding and policy commitments to support our priorities.

During the federal election campaign we successfully advocated to secure $15 million towards the Carnegie Memorial Swimming Pool redevelopment.

Other key advocacy priorities included actions to address the climate emergency and funding for safe, accessible and sustainable transport options.