What happened last time?

The opportunity to contribute ideas to the Community Strategic Plan has now closed. This article from November 2017 describes earlier progress in the CSP conversation.

In 2011, Orange City Council held its first community engagement strategy to produce a Community Strategic Plan.

The consultation was called ‘Shaping Orange’ and included a series of ‘community conversations’ across a broad range of local residents – the elderly, youth, women and men, recent migrants, the Aboriginal community and the disabled.

The community was asked to respond to key questions about the future by way of online survey and written feedback forms.

There were over 500 people engaged directly and 380 indirectly.

The information collected was then provided to a research firm to conduct a random telephone survey which had a 95% confidence level of representing the community.

The survey showed that the areas of interest and concern raised in the 'conversations' and 'feedback sheets' were representative of the broader community’s views.

PRIORITIES : The 2012 'Shaping Orange' conversation revealed that the Orange community's top priority for future action was gaining a reliable water supply.

The results of this consultation formed the basis of the objectives and strategies of the CSP that was drafted in 2011 and adopted by the council in 2012.

The plan is reviewed each year and is used to guide the framing of annual budgets.