Participatory Budgeting 2019/20

How would you spend the City of Bayswater's operating budget?

This year, Council has adopted participatory budgeting and is inviting the community to help inform the City's annual operating budget for the 2019/20 financial year. Community engagement commenced in November 2018 and has recently concluded with the PB Community Panel. You can check out the phases of the project here.

What have we done?

The first phase of community engagement involved the online Budget Allocator tool. We heard from 250 community members and you can read about the outcomes of this process in the Budget Allocator Report.

The second phase of the project comprised of a community panel to look at the budget in more detail. Thirty one independently recruited panelists used community feedback, strategic documents, financial data and presentations from City staff to help form budget recommendations from February - March 2019. The final recommendations were presented to Council on Saturday 16^th of March.

Where are we now?

In the preparation of this year’s draft Budget, Council gave careful consideration to the recommendations made by the community panel, alongside strategies committed to in the City's Strategic Community Plan 2017-2027 and other guiding information. To find out more about the process, view the Participatory Budgeting explained brochure in the document library.

You can now view the City’s Draft Budget 2019/20 and the Recommendations Report provided by the community panel in the document library.

On 2 July a meeting was held at the Civic Centre to adopt the City’s annual budget. A meeting agenda is available here.

Thank you to all who have participated in the project.