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Council manages a large and diverse portfolio of community assets worth $1.88 billion (excluding land value). This includes:

• buildings (e.g. civic centre, libraries, community centres, public toilets, pre-school, sporting pavilions), heating and cooling systems, solar panels
• roads, bridges, car parks
• footpaths, shared pathways, accessibility needs (e.g. ramps)
• playground equipment, park seats and other furniture
• trees and vegetation, bushland, sites of biological significance
• sporting fields, playing courts
• drains, stormwater quality devices

The Asset Plan provides strategic direction on how Council cost-effectively manages the large portfolio of community assets to meet evolving community needs.

We are developing a new Asset Plan 2025-2035 to guide how we manage community assets into the future. For the next 10 years, Council has a budget of $689.69 million to manage community assets. The plan will detail principles on how Council will use, maintain, build, acquire and dispose infrastructure assets.

The plan must address the minimum standard required for our assets to ensure we meet legal, compliance and safety standards.

Beyond the minimum standards, the plan considers discretionary items such as the capital works programs, renewal works and service levels to be variables. Community panel members will be able to influence how budget is allocated for these items.

A community panel is a group of randomly selected people that generally represents the demographic makeup of a community. Panel members will learn and discuss topics important to the community. The Panel will work with Council to develop draft recommendations for the Asset Plan.

Here is a quick video about a Community Panel we ran in 2023, while it was a different conversation you can get an idea of the experience from past participants.

Over the last year we have been developing our Council Plan, Health and Wellbeing Plan and the Financial Plan. The Strategies define our service priorities and financial conditions that will inform how we manage our assets into the future. This work was informed by broad community engagement as well as a community panel that met four times to develop recommendations for Council to consider when drafting these strategies. You can read more about this engagement on the Our Knox page.