FAQs

• This is the highest-level plan that a council and its community will prepare.
  It sets out a shared community vision, describes where we want to be in 20 years' time, and outlines how we will get there together.
  
  
• Eurobodalla's current vision is: we are friendly, responsible, thriving and proud.
  We want to know if this still accurately reflects the community's vision for the future.
  
  
• The plan and vision aim to encourage community members, agencies, Council and other levels of government to work together towards shared goals for Eurobodalla's future. The plan also helps the new Council understand the community's aspirations.
  
  
• Council's role is to prepare and maintain the plan on behalf of the community. But it's not just Council's plan - it's the whole community's plan for the future and that is why it's so important to get involved.
  
  
• We want to know what your hopes and goals are for Our Eurobodalla, so we can plan now for our shared future.

The Community Strategic Plan is the highest-level plan that a council and its community will prepare. Eurobodalla Council has a custodial role in initiating, preparing and maintaining the plan on behalf of the community. 

The plan aims to encourage the community and other partners such as NSW government agencies, non-government agencies, businesses,  community groups and council to work together as one community to deliver on the vision for the future of Eurobodalla. It will identify priorities for the community, strategies for achieving these and what successful implementation will look like.

This plan then guides the development of other Council plans to ensure they align to the community's future aspirations. It forms part of council's Integrated Planning and Reporting suite of plans.

The Local Government Act NSW (1993) and Integrated Planning and Reporting (IPR) Framework requires each council to prepare a Community Strategic Plan covering a minimum ten-year period, a Resourcing Strategy and a Delivery Program and Operational Plan. These plans form Council's IPR's suite of documents.

The Community Strategic Plan (CSP) sits above all other Council plans and policies, and its purpose is to identify the community’s main priorities and aspirations for the future, and plan strategies to achieve them. 

The Resourcing Strategy identifies the resources council has available to respond to its CSP and includes a Long-term Financial Plan, Asset Management Strategy and Workforce Management Strategy. 

The Delivery Program aligns with a council term. It is a Council’s response and commitment to implementing, within available resources, the priorities and aspirations of the community, expressed in its CSP. 

The Operational Plan is the Council’s annual service delivery action plan. 

We need to make sure these plans still accurately capture and communicate the Community’s hopes and dreams for future Eurobodalla, five years after their development. 

This also fulfills legislative requirements and the NSW Government’s Integrated Planning and Reporting (IP&R) framework, where council is expected to conduct a review of IP&R plans with each new council term to ensure they still accurately reflect the aspirations of our community.

Over the past five years, Council has been working hard towards the outcomes in it's Delivery Program and Operational Plans. These align to the CSP and aim to deliver the elements Council is responsible for.

In 2016-17:

90% of Operational Plan actions complete

$54.8 million in capital works undertaken

In 2017-18:

98.7% Operational Plan actions complete

$53.4 million in capital works undertaken

In 2018-19:

98.6% of Operational Plan actions complete

$50 million in capital works undertaken

In 2019-20

98.9% of Operational Plan actions complete

$40.7 million of capital works

You can access our Annual Report on the Eurobodalla Council website, which list these and much more for each year.

Council engages the community on a range of projects outside the IP&R cycle. A significant amount of valued community feedback and input has been received during engagement activities for: 

• Aboriginal Action Plan 
• Advancing Eurobodalla - Integrated Economic Growth and Development Strategy 
• Batemans Bay Regional Aquatic, Arts and Leisure Centre 
• Batemans Bay Waterfront Masterplan and Activation Strategy 
• Companion Animal Management Plan 
• Creative Arts Strategy 
• Eurobodalla Events Strategy 
• Eurobodalla Heritage Strategy 
• Eurobodalla Pathways Strategy
• Mogo Adventure Trail Hub – creation of masterplan 
• Nature Based Tourism Study 
• Place Score engagement in Tilba, Narooma, Bodalla and Moruya Recreation and Open Space Strategy 
• Tourism Wayfinding and Signage Strategy

Council also partnered with Micromex during 2019 and 2021 to conduct Community Satisfaction and Community Wellbeing surveys.  

The input and outcomes from engaging the community on these items will inform this review of the Community Strategic Plan.

Council's 'Our Eurobodalla' project team will collate your input and preferences for the community's future vision and any adjustments to the objectives and strategies to achieve this.

The team will work with the new Council to review and develop its IP&R plans to ensure they accurately capture 'Where we want to be', 'How we will get there' and 'Who can help'.

All of us! The Community Strategic Plan encourage the community and other partners such as NSW government agencies, non-government agencies, businesses,  community groups and council to work together as one community to deliver on the vision for the future of Eurobodalla. 

In Australia, there are three levels of government that work together to provide residents the services they need. As the plan is a whole of community plan, no single agency is responsible for delivering the plan. 

If your'e interested, you can read more about the three levels of government

For Council, each new Council will develop a Delivery Program for their elected term. This program outlines the activities Council will undertake to contribute to achieving our community's vision. It may include advocating for priorities that are delivered by other government agencies such as health, education and main roads; and actions to align it's service delivery to the priorities Council's are responsible for delivering.

An annual Operational Plan is then developed from the Delivery Program by Council each year - this becomes councils work plan for the year to ensure all actions a Council's does are working towards the Community's future vision.