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Publish the Workforce Plan
The Local Government Act requires each council to develop a Workforce Plan, as part of an Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework: What is a Workforce Plan? Workforce Planning is ‘the systematic identification, analysis and planning of organisational needs in terms of people’ LGPro Workforce Planning Training Handbook Why is a Workforce Plan important? A Workforce…
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Democracy Agenda – publish reports
The Australia Institute has published a democracy agenda for the 47th Parliament: Including a recommendation that reports from consultants be published: This mirrors the proposal made by Streets Alive Yarra in December 2021 for the City of Yarra to publish all reports it receives from consultants: Now, in the light of the report from the…
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Open Data Policy
The City of Yarra adopted an Open Data Policy on the 22nd May 2018: Oddly, four years later, the policy is not available for download on the public transparency page nor on the strategies, policies and plans page: Streets Alive Yarra obtained a copy from council: Overlap with Public Transparency Policy The Open Data Policy…
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Open Data at the City of Ipswich
Our last journal article looked at Open Data from the City of Yarra. In this article, we review Open Data from the City of Ipswich. Their first data went live on 1st July 2020. Transparency is at the heart of good governance and decision-making, and the Open Ipswich Transparency and Integrity Hub shows our commitment…
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Your Say Yarra app
The City of Yarra has a draft Community Engagement Policy which commits to community engagement that is: Representative Accessible Meaningful Transparent Accountable Respectful Flexible Supportive Prepared Your Say Yarra app We suggest that these principles can be supported by developing a Your Say Yarra application for smartphones. Features Consider an app with the following features:…
