At the Council meeting on Tuesday 24 June, the Council formally adopted a suite of key strategic documents that will help guide the future of the Shire. They are the Council Plan 2025–2029 (incorporating the Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plan), 2025/26 Budget, Financial Plan, Revenue and Rating Plan, and Asset Plan.

Thank you for all your input.

Council is working on Hepburn Together 2025-2029, a major strategic planning project that will shape our Shire's future.

As part of this project, we are developing the following key strategic plans, as required under the Local Government Act 2020:

We have already engaged extensively with the community through the Financial Vision and Future Hepburn projects, which helped us understand broad community priorities. Now, we are taking the next step.

We formed a Deliberative Engagement Panel (DEP) of community members to help prioritise and refine our priorities and objectives, along with a Shire-wide community survey which had over 400 responses.

This is a key opportunity to shape the future of Hepburn Shire together. By working in partnership, we can ensure our strategic direction reflects the needs, aspirations, and priorities of our community.

The community consultation period concluded on Thursday 5 June. Thank you to community members that took the time to complete the surveys online or in hard copy. Your feedback will now be reviewed before the final strategic documents are considered for adoption at the June Council Meeting.