We can help you build an organisational planning process and cycle that effectively engages councillors, staff and your community.

Effective council planning means creating an over-arching strategic context for all your priority-setting and, ultimately, resource allocation.

This means first focusing on the underpinning processes of planning more than the actual Council Plan or Community Vision document itself. Your process, or the planning ‘engine’, must have clear links with all key organisational processes, including the LGA-mandated Long-term Financial Plan and Asset Plan, as well as specific service plans.

Getting the process right means published Plans themselves will have broad-based understanding, ownership and acceptance by councillors, executive and the staff who have to deliver it.