Committee for Ballarat’s core business is effecting change to achieve our vision and being proactive in taking on challenging issues facing Ballarat and its region.
The main vehicle for this is our projects which target priority issues in key areas, prompted through the networking forums provided by Round Table Dinners, and members’ surveys.
Committee for Ballarat believes its members should drive our strategic direction. Our inclusive processes mean that all members can be influential in stimulating and contributing to discussion and action about the region’s big-picture issues.
Members, in turn, benefit by having a direct line of communication to government decision makers at all levels, and they can achieve results by working as part of the Committee that they can’t achieve on their own. As a by-product, they get to work in an environment that provides appropriate infrastructure and otherwise facilitates business wellbeing within the region.
The Committee recognises that, without the high level of support from members for these processes, we would not have a mandate for our projects, and we are grateful to members for this commitment.
Our Key Issues process, conducted early each year, is the means through which we set our strategic direction and priorities for the following 12 months. Members drive this process by nominating their three key issues.
Strategies for action in 2010-2011
Development of a population policy and taking a constructive position on plans for the Ballarat North sports, recreation and entertainment precinct are the two initiatives to arise from the 2010 Key Issues process. Neither will form specific project tasks, as is the case with Secure and Sustainable Water and the Ballarat West Growth Zone (BWGZ), but there will be definitive action by the Committee in the light of members Key Issues feedback. Leadership Ballarat and Western Regions remains a key priority of the Committee.
In the case of population, the proposal is to prepare a paper from which the Committee can establish its own position on future population growth in Ballarat.
On the sports, recreation and entertainment precinct, the Committee is exploring with other stakeholders the best approach it can take to enhance the prospect of positive developments which will benefit not only the various sporting bodies, but the recreational pursuits and well being of the wider community.
The BWGZ and Water projects remain the key tasks of the Committee until we are satisfied that all outcomes are met or will inevitably be met.
Click here to download the Key Issues Outcomes: Action Plan 2010-2011.
2010 Election Strategy
Your Committee has listed jobs, water security, leadership, community wellbeing and population growth as the essential development priorities for Ballarat in a document circulated to key State and Commonwealth politicians. The document has been sent to relevant Ministers at both political levels and their local representatives on the ground here in Ballarat and the region. These are your Committee's priorities and we encourage you to champion them on our behalf at every opportunity.
