Council Confirms Community Sounding Board Participants

Published on 23 October 2018

A diverse and dynamic group of people from across the Snowy Valleys community have signed on to be members of Snowy Valleys Council’s Community Sounding Board.

Snowy Valleys Council’s General Manager Matthew Hyde said he was happy with the level of interest in the sounding board and welcomes all participants.

“Over the next few weeks the group will work closely together to critically review the way we currently deliver Council services and I am confident we have the right representational mix from across our LGA to engage in this review,” Mr Hyde said.

The Sounding Board members will share with Council their perspectives on the appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of services currently being delivered, as well as provide feedback about future priorities and resourcing of services across the local government area.

Mr Hyde said community members not participating in the sounding board could still play a role in examining the services that Council delivers.

“Our online budget challenge gives you the power to allocate Council’s budget and prioritise Council’s services,” Mr Hyde said.

The online budget challenge allows people the opportunity to select their preferred budget option from 15 service areas and prioritise the services they believe are most important and how much of the budget should be spent on them.

“By taking the challenge you can see the big picture about what Council does, understand the costs associated with delivering these services and better understand the overall budget impacts,” Mr Hyde said.

Information gathered from the budget challenge and the Sounding Board will be used to inform Council’s 2020 budget and operating plan.

The first meeting of the Community Sounding Board will be held on Saturday 27 October 2018.

For more information on Council’s Service Level Review and to take the online budget challenge visit yourvoice.svc.nsw.gov.au