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Agenda

Inner Melbourne Action Plan Implementation Committee

Meeting No 40

8.00 am – 10.30 am Friday 27 November 2015 City of Yarra

Meeting Room 1, Richmond Town Hall

Committee

Members Cr Roberto Colanzi, Mayor, City of Yarra (Chair) Cr Bernadene Voss, Mayor, City of Port Phillip Cr Cameron McDonald, Mayor, Maribyrnong City Council Cr Claude Ullin, Mayor, City of Stonnington Cr Ken Ong, Chair Future Melbourne (Planning) Committee, City of Melbourne Mr Warren Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, City of Stonnington Mr Geoff Lawler, Director City Planning & Infrastructure, City of Melbourne Ms Vijaya Vaidyanath, Chief Executive Officer, City of Yarra Ms Tracey Slatter, Chief Executive Officer, City of Port Phillip Mr Stephen Wall, Chief Executive Officer, Maribyrnong City Council

Associate Partner

Representatives

Mr Adrian Salmon, Assistant Director Statutory Approvals, State Planning Services, DELWP Mr Rod Anderson, Strategy and Partnerships Regional Manager - Port Phillip, DELWP Mr Nick Beckingsale, Director Transport System Planning, Transport Pol & Plan Div, DEDJTR Mr Steve Booth, Director Metro Business Engagement, DEDJTR Mr Vince Punaro, Regional Director, Metro NW Region, VicRoads Ms Jane Monk, Director Inner City, Metropolitan Planning Authority

IMAP Ms Elissa McElroy, IMAP Executive Officer

Guests Ms Francesca Valmorbida, Manager Economic & Cultural Development, City of Stonnington Ms Linda Weatherson, Director Community Development, City of Melbourne Mr Dale Stewart, Senior Recreation Planner, City of Melbourne Ms Belinda Robson, Senior Policy Advisor, City of Yarra IMAP Champions Ms Jane Waldock, Assistant Director Planning & Placemaking, City of Yarra Mr Peter Sagar, Interim Manager City Growth, City of Port Phillip Ms Kelly Martini, Coordinator Corporate & Community Planning, City of Stonnington Mr Geoff Robinson, Manager Engineering Services, City of Melbourne Ms Katy McMahon, Manager Development Facilitation, Maribyrnong City Council

PRELIMINARIES

Item Time Alloc.

Agenda Topic Responsibility

1. 2 mins Commence 8.00am

Appointment of Chair

Cr Roberto Colanzi, Mayor, City of Yarra

IMAP Executive Officer

2. 2 mins Apologies Cr Bernadene Voss, Mayor, City of Port Phillip (leaving meeting early) Welcome: New mayors and associates

Chair

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3. 1 min Members Interest Disclosure by members of any conflict of interest in accordance with s.79 of the Act

Chair

ITEMS

Item Time Alloc.



Confirmation of Minutes (Attachment 1) Recommendation 4.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm

the minutes of the IMAP Implementation Committee No. 39 held on 28 August 2015 as an accurate record.

Chair


Ratification of Out of Committee decisions (Attachment 2) Recommendation

5.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to ratify the following decision regarding the Urban Manufacturing Project (Action 7.2) made out of committee:

That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:

a. approve the agreement between the IMAP Councils and University of Melbourne; and

b. authorise the CEOs to sign on behalf of the IMAP Committee.

Recommendation 5.2 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to ratify the

following decision regarding the Urban Manufacturing Project (Action 7.2) made out of committee:


a. accept the draft Phase 1 report and agree to a revised integration of Phase 2 and 3.

b. endorse the continuation of the Urban Manufacturing Project and instructs the Steering Committee to apply for ARC Linkage grant funding in September 2015 in line with the original IMAP resolution of matched funding

c. accept the Steering Committees recommendation to request Moreland Council as a partner in the project, subject to an MoU being signed between IMAP and the City of Moreland.

Recommendation 5.3 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to ratify the

following decision made out of committee:

That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm the Confidential Minutes of the IMAP Implementation Committee No 38 held on 29 May 2015.

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Business Arising (Attachment 3) Recommendation 6.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the

actions undertaken in response to business arising from the previous minutes.

Correspondence: Outward: 3a Letters of Support for ARC Linkage grant(Urban Manufacturing)

Acting Manager, Smart City Office, City of Melbourne

Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Planning Authority

Chief Executive Officer, City of Port Phillip

Acting Chief Executive, City of Moreland

3b Email - M Rathje, City of Stonnington for IMAP Tourism Working Group; comments on CoM Draft Tourism Action Plan

Inward:

3c Email - Dr J Day, University of Melbourne - confirming ARC Linkage grant application submitted

3d Acting Mayor, City of Port Phillip; re Climate Change; A Risk Assessment

3e A/Regional Director Port Phillip DELWP; re Premier’s Sustainability Award for the Growing Green Guide

3f Office of the Minister, Lisa Neville re finalist in Premiers Sustainability Awards



Financial Report (Attachment 4) Recommendation 7.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to receive

the IMAP Financial Report for the three months ending 30 September 2015.


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5 mins Commence 8.22am

IMAP Communication and Governance (Attachment 5) Recommendation 8.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the

Communications and Governance Briefing Paper.

Publicity:

5a Media release, 30 Sept 2015: the Growing Green Guide – Finalist in the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2015

5b Melbourne University Staff/Student E-News (MUSSE): Growing Green Guide wins Premier’s Sustainability award

5c Media release SV: Melbourne Uni’s Growing Green Guide wins Premier’s Sustainability Award

5d Media release CoY on the Future of Inner City Social Housing Forum



Progress Report (Attachment 6) Recommendation 9.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the

IMAP Progress Report for November 2015.



IMAP Review (Attachment 7) Recommendation 10.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the

current work being undertaken to finalise the Draft Inner Melbourne Action Plan 2015-25.


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11. 10 mins

Commence 8.40 am

Action 11: Regional Tourism: Report on Destination Management Plan Proposal (Attachment 8) Recommendation

11.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to provide $50,000 towards the development of a Destination Management Plan by Destination Melbourne Ltd in 2016-17 from the existing IMAP Tourism fund; subject to:

a. at least five other (non-IMAP) Melbourne councils also agreeing to support this initiative financially

b. City of Melbourne confirming an additional $10,000 to the initiative from the Business and Tourism Melbourne branch’s budget

c. Consideration by DML of an IMAP TWG representative being included on the consultant selection panel

d. The Melbourne Destination Management Plan Brief requiring consideration of all current sub-region Destination Management Plans and participating Council Tourism Strategies

e. IMAP’s Tourism Working Group being satisfied that Tourism Victoria / Visit Victoria is providing an appropriate level of matched funds.

Francesca Valmorbida, CoS


Action 5.5 Infrastructure Development - Joint planning study for the provision of active and passive recreation spaces (Attachment 9) Recommendation 12.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee notes:

a. That the actions resolved at the August 2015 meeting have been achieved;

b. The information in this paper; and

c. That a further verbal report will be delivered at 27 November 2015 meeting as a result of the request for quotation deadline of 20 November 2015.

12.2 That this information is presented to the November 2015 committee meeting.

Linda Weatherson CoM Dale Stewart, CoM

13. 10 mins Commence

9.05am

IMAP Three Year Implementation Plan (Attachment 10) Recommendation 13.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:

a. Note this update on progress on the Inner Melbourne Action Plan, and

b. Approve the updated IMAP Three Year Implementation Plan, and any changes to the current years budget

c. Approve the request for each of the IMAP Partner Councils to make provision for funding in the 2016-17 budget as follows:

IMAP Annual Contribution: $35,000 per Council in line with the current year

IMAP Annual Tourism Contribution: $20,000 per Council in line with the current year

IMAP Share of Operational Costs: $40,000 per Council (Estimate – to be confirmed)

(Total $95,000 per IMAP Council)


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Action 5.2 Affordable Housing – Report on ‘Future of Inner City Social Housing‘ Forum (Attachment 11)

Recommendation 14.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note this

report:

The film, ‘The Future of Social Housing in the Inner City’, which premiered at the World Homeless Day Symposium ‘Future of Inner City Social Housing’ will be shown to the Committee at the close of the meeting.(8 mins)

Belinda Robson, CoY

OTHER BUSINESS

Item Time Allot.



Any other business Close Next Meeting Friday 26 February 2016 (8.00am) City of Melbourne – Council Meeting Room Level 2 Adminstration Building

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ATTACHMENTS Item No

Attachment No Attachment Topic

4. Attachment 1 DRAFT Minutes of the IMAP Implementation Committee meeting No. 39 held on 28 August 2015

5. Attachment 2 Attachment 2a Attachment 2b

Out of committee decisions Email 11 June re Action 7.2 UM Agreement Email 23 September re Action 7.2 recommendation Email September re confirmation of committee Minutes

6. Attachment 3 Attachment 3a Attachment 3b Attachment 3c Attachment 3d Attachment 3e Attachment 3f

Business Arising Outward: Letters of Support for ARC Linkage grant(Urban Manufacturing)

Acting Manager, Smart City Office, City of Melbourne

Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Planning Authority

Chief Executive Officer, City of Port Phillip

Acting Chief Executive, City of Moreland Email - M Rathje, City of Stonnington for IMAP Tourism Working Group; comments on CoM Draft

Tourism Action Plan Inward: Email - Dr J Day, University of Melbourne - confirming ARC Linkage grant application submitted Acting Mayor, City of Port Phillip; re Climate Change; A Risk Assessment A/Regional Director Port Phillip DELWP; re Premier’s Sustainability Award for the Growing Green

Guide Office of the Minister, Lisa Neville re finalist in Premiers Sustainability Awards

7. Attachment 4 Attachment 4a Attachment 4b

IMAP Finance report IMAP Operating and Capital Works statement for the 12 months to 30 June 2015 IMAP Budget and Expenditure by Project

8. Attachment 5 Attachment 5a Attachment 5b Attachment 5c Attachment 5d

IMAP Communications and Governance report Media release, 30 Sept 2015: the Growing Green Guide – Finalist in the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2015 Melbourne University Staff/Student E-News (MUSSE): Growing Green Guide wins Premier’s Sustainability award Media release SV: Melbourne Uni’s Growing Green Guide wins Premier’s Sustainability Award Media release CoY on the Future of Inner City Social Housing Forum

9. Attachment 6 IMAP Progress Report November 2015

10. Attachment 7 IMAP review update

11. Attachment 8 Attachment 8a

Action 11 Regional Tourism - report on Destination Management Plan Letter from CEO Visit Victoria

12. Attachment 9 Action 5.5 Infrastructure development – Joint planning study for the provision of active and passive recreation spaces

13. Attachment10 Attachment 10a

IMAP Three year Implementation Plan – report Financial Model – 3 year plan

14. Attachment 11 Action 5.2 Affordable Housing – report on the Housing Forum

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DRAFT Minutes

Inner Melbourne Action Plan Implementation Committee

Meeting No 39

8.00 am – 10.30 am Friday 28 August 2015 City of Port Phillip

Council Chamber, St Kilda Town Hall

ATTENDANCE:

Committee Members

Cr Jane Touzeau, Acting Mayor, City of Port Phillip (Chair) Cr Phillip Vlahogiannis, Mayor, City of Yarra Cr Nam Quach, Mayor, Maribyrnong City Council (arrived at 8.25am) Mr Geoff Lawler, Director City Operations, City of Melbourne Ms Vijaya Vaidyanath, Chief Executive Officer, City of Yarra Ms Tracey Slatter, Chief Executive Officer, City of Port Phillip Mr Stephen Wall, Chief Executive Officer, Maribyrnong City Council

Associate Partner

Representatives

Mr Adrian Salmon, Assistant Director Statutory Approvals, State Planning Services, DELWP Ms Jane Monk, Director Inner City, Metropolitan Planning Authority Mr David Teague, Acting Manager Transport and Planning, VicRoads (for Vince Punaro) Mr Steve Booth, Director, Metro Business Engagement, DEDJTR (for Annick Philipsz)

IMAP Elissa McElroy, IMAP Executive Officer

Guests

Mr Stuart Draffin, General Manager Planning & Development, City of Ston. (for Warren Roberts) Ms Laura Cavello, Chief Executive Officer, Destination Melbourne Ltd Ms Sarah Seddon, Board Chair, Destination Melbourne Limited Mr Barry McGuren, Manager Business and Tourism Melbourne, City of Melbourne Ms Melissa Rathje, Coordinator Economic Development, City of Stonnington Ms Helen Hardwick, Program Manager Tourism Policy, City of Melbourne Ms Leigh Abernethy, Urban Designer, City of Port Phillip Dr Jennifer Day, University of Melbourne Mr Austin Ley, Acting Manager Smart City Office, City of Melbourne Ms Virginia Miller, Economic Development Officer, City of Port Phillip Ms Linda Weatherson, Director Community Development, City of Melbourne Cr John McMorrow, Councillor, City of Stonnington IMAP Champions Ms Katrina Terjung, Coordinator Strategic Planning, City of Port Phillip (for Richard Brice)

PRELIMINARIES

1. Appointment of Chair

1.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to appoint Cr Jane Touzeau as the Chair of the Meeting.

MOVED CR VLAHOGIANNIS / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED


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2. Apologies and Introductions

2.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the following apologies: – Cr Amanda Stevens, Mayor, City of Port Phillip – Cr Melina Sehr, Mayor, City of Stonnington – Cr Ken Ong, Chair Future Melbourne (Planning) Committee, City of Melbourne – Mr Warren Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, City of Stonnington – Mr Rod Anderson, Strategy and Partnerships Regional Manager- Port Phillip, DELWP – Ms Rebecca Collins, Director Transport Strategies, Transport Integration Div, DEDJTR – Ms Annick Philipsz, Director – Inner City Region, DEDJTR – Mr Vince Punaro, Regional Director, Metro NW Region, VicRoads

MOVED Mr WALL / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Cr Touzeau welcomed the visitors to the committee and acknowledged the traditional owners of the land.

3. Members Interest - Disclosure by members of any conflict of interest in accordance with s.79 of the Act. – Mr Lawler declared a conflict of interest in relation to item 16 “Urban Manufacturing” due to his

advisory roles with the University of Melbourne ITEMS

4. Confirmation of Minutes 4.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm the minutes of the IMAP

Implementation Committee No. 38 held on 29 May 2015 as an accurate record. MOVED MR LAWLER / Ms Vaidyanath A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED

5. Confirmation of Minutes 5.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm the minutes of the IMAP Executive

Forum No. 17 held on 7 August 2015 as an accurate record. MOVED MR LAWLER / Ms Slatter A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: IMAP Executive Officer to correct the year on the minutes to 2015.

6. Business Arising The Executive Officer noted (a) the submission to Creative Victoria and (b) the Moreland industrial land strategy; both of which relate to item 16 on the agenda regarding urban manufacturing.

6.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the actions undertaken in response to business arising from the previous minutes.

MOVED CR VLAHOGIANNIS / Ms Slatter A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED

7. IMAP Communication and Governance The Executive Officer noted:

2016 Committee meeting dates tabled for approval in the resolution

Recent publicity (attached) on green roofs and the Community Land Trust project.

7.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. note the Communications and Governance Briefing Paper; and b. approve the meeting dates for 2016.

MOVED CR VLAHOGIANNIS / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: Executive Officer to circulate meeting dates for 2016 to the IMAP councils


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8. IMAP Governance Documents – 2015 Update The Executive Officer noted the recent renewal of delegations to the Special Committee’s by the IMAP Councils to update the title of the City of Melbourne’s representative on the Committee. She advised the update of the attached governance documents also included this change and some other minor changes noted in the cover report. These were reviewed by the Executive Forum on the 7 August. 8.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:

a. approve the 2015 updates to the following IMAP governance documents: i. IMAP Operational Protocol; ii. IMAP Procurement Policy and MoU for Goods and Services; iii. IMAP Communications Plan and Media Protocol; iv. MoU - Intellectual Property agreement (IMAP map); and

b. authorise the CEOs to sign the documents on behalf of the IMAP Councils. MOVED MS SLATTER / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: Executive Officer to arrange for the IMAP governance documents to be signed

9. Financial Report The Executive Officer noted the additional revenue received for the financial year for the RMF projects and from City of Wyndham for the wayfinding signage project. A $23,500 surplus for the year was achieved. The recent $20K payment to the University of Melbourne for the urban manufacturing project (accrued) indicates a near break-even position for the 12 months to June. 9.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to receive the IMAP Financial Report for the

year ending 30 June 2015. MOVED MR WALL / Ms Vaidyanath A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED

10. IMAP Draft Annual Report / Draft Annual Report Summary 2014 - 2015 Mr Lawler noted the Annual Report serves to illustrate the sensibility of undertaking projects on a regional scale, and noted the extension of the parties involved, beyond just the 5 councils.

10.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to approve the IMAP Annual Report and IMAP

Annual Report Summary for distribution. MOVED CR VLAHOGIANNIS / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: Executive Officer to arrange distribution of the Annual Report and Summary

11. Progress Report 11.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the IMAP Progress Report for August

2015. MOVED CR VLAHOGIANNIS / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED

12. Presentation by Destination Melbourne Ltd: Destination Management Plan and Local Government Visitor Program Proposal Ms Laura Cavello, CEO Destination Melbourne Ltd (DML) and Ms Sarah Seddon, Chair DML attended for this item, taking the committee through a powerpoint proposal. The key points were:

DML is an independent tourism organisation funded through stakeholders, that champions Melbourne’s visitor profile

DML is focussed solely on Melbourne – while State Government focuses on all of Victoria

Their newly developed strategic plan and vision addresses Melbourne’s visitor potential in two ways, as a result of extensive discussions with stakeholders:

o Destination Management Plan – will identify attractions across the Melbourne metro region with input from all the municipalities.

Most regions have one of these plans except for metro Melbourne: this type of planning is generally not undertaken by state government;


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expected to be released June 2017. o Local Government Visitor Support program – addresses greater support being sought

from municipalities, to elevate the visitor experience through collaboration. The proposal is to assist councils to develop this over 3 years.

A funding proposal was put forward for the 2 initiatives (plus additional federal grant applications for matched funding) which includes:

o Destination Management Plan; $10K per IMAP council in 2016-17 o Local Government Visitor Support Program: $10K per IMAP council in 2016-17, and

$20K per council for the following 2 years.

Melbourne deserves its own visitor plan and greater support for industry development [Cr Quach arrived at 8.25am] Questions/Comments The spread of the members/stakeholders? - the biggest cluster of visitors is in the inner city area.

– Work right across Melbourne, 21 municipalities. Pay to play groups goes far and wide. Have DML developed a spatial map/analysis of where most of their revenue comes from? is most from the CBD?.

– The CBD has the highest concentration of tourism businesses. Always encourage dispersal and partnership arrangements with the 21 councils.

What would a Destination Management Plan include? – Gap and SWOT analysis, looks at what growth expected, emerging trends, accommodation

requirements, what visitors expect of a global city, whether we deliver to expectations,. Melbourne needs to continue to evolve to be a compelling destination for international markets.

– Focussed on regions Is DML recognised by Tourism Victoria as the regional agent?

– Yes. Receives funding from TV. With CoM, makes up 10% funding. Reforms are underway with Tourism Victoria – what is the impact on DML?

– Still have fundamental role across Melbourne. Merger of 3 bodies is expected to give less time to work at grass roots level or provide coordination across local government. The focus is on regional Victoria – it has its own division outside of the marketing division in its structure. State Government has never developed a destination marketing plan.

Is the request for IMAP funds or funding from individual councils? When is an answer required? – Destination Management Plan – looking to IMAP to fund. – The Local Government support program – looking to approach individual councils. – The request before IMAP is just for the DM plan.

Need to look at how it fits the budget cycle. Visitor Victoria restructure was about establishing a “one stop shop”, “one Victoria”. It is early on, municipal stakeholders are not responsible for a “one Victoria strategy”. Should we be looking at this later – it’s a timing issue. Agree the benefits should be all pervasive and not just benefitting the CBD.

– DML endorses the streamlining. DML represents local and metropolitan Victoria. Is it too early? Mr Booth advised Visit Victoria (VV) has an interim CEO. This exercise may need further discussion with Visit Victoria. Believes VV may include local promotion as well as their wider objectives. They may intend to develop this more. May not be as stark as presented here. Inner Melbourne is the centre of what VV is about. Feels VV will have an integrated approach. Ms Vaidyanath noted she believes the way forward is to discuss this further amongst ourselves. Mr Wall agreed to further discussion. Ms Slatter concluded it is premature to respond yet. We cannot consider the funding request until we understand VV. It was suggested the committee ask the IMAP CEOs to meet with the Interim CEO of Visit Victoria. Mr Booth advised he could help with this. The Executive Officer was asked to make arrangements with Steve Booth and the Council CEO’s/senior executives to facilitate this. 12.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:

a. note the request to participate in the Destination Management Plan and Local Government Visitor Program Proposal by DML; and

b. request a further IMAP report to the next IMAP meeting on DML’s request.


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MOVED MR LAWLER / Mr Wall A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Actions:

The Executive Officer to make arrangements with Steve Booth and the Council CEO’s/senior executives to meet with the interim CEO Visit Victoria

A further IMAP staff report to be prepared for the next IMAP meeting on DMLs proposal

13. IMAP Review and draft Plan The Executive Officer noted:

– That the draft plan had been developed around the priorities for IMAP, as a result of the initial input received from councillors and senior staff at the early workshops.

– Development of those priorities had been overseen and guided by the IMAP Executive Forum, with proposals being considered from a broad range of staff from across the 5 councils.

– Final editing by senior staff had been undertaken recently to provide an achievable number of key strategies that allowed flexibility for implementation during the next 5 – 10 years.

– The IMAP Implementation Committee in May had confirmed the five goals, and, following the Executive Forum review last week, the plan and strategies has been further edited - with Performance Indicators developed as requested, for the Committee’s review.

The Executive Officer advised that the draft plan needed to achieve approval in principle from the 5 council briefings before it could be approved at a separate Council round. Some external consultation was proposed before the Councils would be asked to approve the plan. Questions/Comments Mr Lawler suggested it was time to move onto the next stage. The plan sets up the basis by which the five councils can move the region forward. The test will be in how to do the business cases for each of the actions. Having everyone lined up in the same direction is a good outcome. Ms Vaidyanath noted the councils had all had sessions on the plan with elected members. All five councils had staff involved with this. There is nothing new in this plan that has not been discussed by our councils. We are working within our own policies and have waited long enough for a new plan. Ms Monk asked if there was opportunity for the RMF members to be briefed and make suggestions. Mr Lawler agreed, and noted that all groupings in the public sector should be across it. All five councils need to do their approvals in unison and take the time to get across it. IMAP will also need coordinated responses for the total public responses. Ms Vaidyanath noted wrt RMF, that we are paying to work on the delivery of 2 projects – the draft plan is a good item to put on the RMF agenda, and that we should work the two together for value for money. The Chair noted the emphasis on a low carbon society and applauded its eminence in the plan. 13.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:

a. Endorse the Draft Inner Melbourne Action Plan; and b. Recommend the five member Councils be briefed on the Draft Plan.

MOVED MR LAWLER / Cr Quach A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: The Executive Officer to arrange for the IMAP Councils to be briefed on the Draft plan and external comments sought.

14. Action 11: Regional Tourism: 2014-15 Annual report & 2015-16 Action plan Mr Barry McGuren, CoM and Ms Melissa Rathje, CoS attended for this item. Mr McGuren noted the chairing of the working group was passing from him to Ms Rathje. Key points were:

noted the work done with Destination Melbourne to reduce the costs of the map.

the second area of work is to progress development of a digital presence.

the idea of a Destination Marketing Plan (DMP) is supported by the Tourism Working Group, but there are timing issues due to the changes underway with the restructure of Visit Victoria.

funding provision is made for the DMP project in the Action Plan

the working group will maintain a watching brief on the roles of Visit Victoria and DML as they evolve - VV hold the brand and the copyright to the Visitor Guide which DML, though independent, need to use.

Questions/Comments Mr Lawler congratulated the group, noting it was a key success of IMAP, and thanked past and future


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leadership of the working group for their ongoing work. Ms Vaidyanath noted the DML funding provision of $50K was “TBC” in the budget for this year and confirmed this cost could be paid by IMAP from current funding. She commented it was helpful to know the funds were there without going back to councils for more funding.

– Ms Rathje noted the Working Group was across the proposal.

14.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. note the continuing work of the IMAP Tourism Working Group. b. approve the IMAP Tourism Working Group to update the schedule of MELBOURNE

OFFICIAL VISITOR MAP – PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT between the IMAP Councils and Destination Melbourne Ltd for another twelve months: and

c. approve the 2015-16 Tourism Working Group Action Plan. MOVED MR LAWLER / Ms Vaidyanath A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: Tourism working group to arrange renewal of the Schedule to the Agreement with DML to include a further year

15. Action 2.2: Visitor Wayfinding Signage Project Ms Helen Hardwick, CoM and Ms Leigh Abernethy CoPP attended for this item and presented a PowerPoint update on the project. Key points were:

The project involves 9 authorities. The coordinating committee have reviewed the work to date and propose a step up on our strategic approach, to explore a more formal relationship with the state government on this project.

A number of pilot projects are proposed to test the style guide work to date.

Paul Street has visited from Transport for London to advise on the development and ongoing administration of Legible London, which supports a Melbourne-wide approach.

A business case for improved wayfinding signs is proposed which identifies the lost opportunities and the benefits of improved wayfinding.

The visit from P. Street identified the need to build a base map that can be worked across Melbourne. Each council can then extract the “tiles” for their area that relate to the wayfinding system.

A workshop has been held, led by SGS Economics, to prepare the business case to establish the city wide base map and improved wayfinding.

The project team leader, Helen Hardwick and GIS staff from CoM had met with the Product Manager of Vic Map (Peter Dubechi) to assess support for the proposal. There was positive support to form a GIS group across the IMAP councils with Vic Map and identify layers, the design colour palette, symbols and features required on the map base. The data is freely available, open source, and could be updated by each council as required.

Questions/Comments The iphone has all the maps already – might the Minister say the same thing?

– Maps are used for brochures, the digital map base etc, and evidence from our own surveys and overseas examples suggests we do need maps on signs. The proposal builds uniformity.

– Data shows people use many modes of maps. We also want consistency with public transport. People want to see physical cues still, to move through the city.

Agreed vision impaired and aging demographic people need this. However, the work needs to talk to electronic modes.

– Part of the pilot project will be checking on how people use the maps. Existing data will be used on physical signs; there will be a match up.

Languages other than English? – Currently the project aims to provide signage in English and include the use of internationally

recognised symbols. There is no proposal at this stage to include other languages. Looking at how technology which enables translations will assist at micro sites.

– Looking at the need for other languages at particular sites as part of the trial. The project team are trying to get the international suite of symbols in use first.

Is there opportunity for Melbourne Metro, with their proposed changes, to do some of the trial work for you?

– Have flagged this with Melbourne Metro Authority as to how to align this work with theirs. Meeting with Neil Hutchinson to progress this.


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15.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:

a. note the report of the Coordinating Committee’s work, and b. endorse the strategic approach being proposed.

MOVED MS SLATTER / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED

16. Action 7.2 Supporting Creative Business – Urban Manufacturing [Mr Lawler left the room for this item – conflict of interest – 9.30am] Dr Jennifer Day, University of Melbourne and Mr Austin Ley, CoM attended for this item. Dr Day took the committee through a PowerPoint presentation indicating some of the findings covered in the report. Dr Day noted that progress was ahead of schedule with overall findings indicating the data sources do not give us the information we need to deliver policy results. Collection of data on the small makers through CrowdSpot/Harvest Digital Planning is now proposed as a more interactive approach to data collection which will also allow the makers to develop data which is useful for them. Mr Ley noted that when the project was scoped, the committee had opted for an exploratory approach. The findings indicate there is value in the project and the approach taken:

– it is a first approach to aid the makers – it provides a better understanding of the information councils have and the gaps that exist in the

data – we have engagement of the maker community and their support to push the survey out. – this is a key sector for growth of our economy – both in jobs and innovation. We are in a good

position to get a greater understanding of this sector. With value being indicated, funding from the MPA and state government agencies is sought to progress the project to the next phase, to provide the matched funding requirements to access an ARC Linkage grant and achieve a greater outcome from the research. Questions/Comments Query regarding part C of the recommendation regarding inclusion of Moreland Council and their financial contribution. – makers attending the workshop identified the excellent support received from Moreland Council, they

are a model for other councils with a high per capita maker presence),and a very innovative approach taken. The makers in the IMAP council’s area see the maker businesses located in Moreland as part of their community.

Access to Creative Victoria and the database of businesses in the Department of Economic Development could assist as they are talking with these industries. – Most of the data relates to businesses with 20+ employees. This study focus is on very small

businesses, often hobbies not picked up in the business register. A rep from ABR has agreed to do a study on this. ABR just purged 2m records from the data due to a lack of activity – these could be the businesses we need information on.

State government business data does go below 20 employees. Increasingly, as the Department seeks to integrate their work with councils and economic development staff, they are developing sector specific strategies. [Ms Vaidyanath left the meeting at 9.50am. Quorum lost] Ms Monk noted a recent report in the Wall Street Journal on productivity and the way we classify it. MPA and the Economic Development department had said they would get on board once they saw something in this research. Ms Slatter noted governance implications to having Moreland Council on a project sponsored by IMAP; IMAP needs to determine the project direction. – The Executive Officer clarified that this can be managed through an agreed MoU such as has been

prepared for the wayfinding signage project with Wyndham Council. – It was agreed this needed to be added to the resolution. Ms Slatter proposed that the item be circulated off line for out-of-committee approval, with this minor change to the recommendation.


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Action: Executive Officer to circulate item 16 (Urban Manufacturing) for out of committee approval

17. Action 5.5 Infrastructure Development - Joint planning study for the provision of active and passive recreation spaces [Mr Lawler re-entered the room – 9.55am. Quorum restored] Linda Weatherson, Director of Community Development, City of Melbourne attended for this item and noted:

– All Councils facilitate the needs of teams, clubs, and associations that are often based outside our own municipalities. The CoM are trying to determine what that total use is.

– The brief has been prepared to address this information requirement. The project team propose to put the Brief out for costing once we have received feedback from all 5 councils on the proposal.

[Mr Wall left the room – 10.00am. No quorum until his return at 10.10am]

– The project team aim to do this work this financial year. They will get quotes that can be bought back to the IMAP Committee in November with the way forward.

– The project team have formally spoken with MPA and SRV about the projects they are undertaking and their interest in this project. SRV are not listed specifically but could be included on the Project Control Group.

– The council Managers felt strongly about owning this project. – Ms Weatherson sought guidance on how to involve others on the project; on the basis that IMAP

councils wish to own it, with the involvement of others as necessary.

Questions/Comments Ms Monk noted her disappointment that inclusion of SRV in the project was not seen as an opportunity. The MPA are also undertaking the metropolitan open space study and are interested in the opportunity to share information and be part of a joint project for the region. While clearly the MPA and SRV can be part of the Project Management group, it seems that a combined cross agency project would have greater resonance. It is also an interesting time for Fishermans Bend and the development opportunities available there for regional open space and facilities. The MPA are disappointed at the approach being proposed.

– The Executive Officer advised the SRV Regional Planning funding application round for up to $50K closes in October, with decisions on successful applications in February 2016.

Ms Slatter noted the work was necessary and the project scope appropriate. She clarified that there was potentially three pieces of related work going on across the agencies. IMAP that are not being brought together; and asked if that was something IMAP could lead? – or whether the other agencies are able to work within the IMAP Council’s objectives?

– Ms Weatherson noted that the objectives of each organisation’s work were slightly different; the councils wanted to achieve their objectives of not just a study of space, but how we allocate that space as councils.

Ms Monk agreed. A lot of government owned land should be considered; we are moving forward with being cleverer about allocating space. An alliance would be stronger for finding solutions.

– Ms Weatherson noted that, while our needs are not the same, the first 3 pieces of work in the brief - the auditing of what’s out there - could be undertaken by the Councils, MPA and SRV jointly. Then the initial joint objectives would be met, and councils could take it further to meet their own objectives.

Cr Vlahogiannis noted that, to reduce duplication, we should hold common data. What each stakeholder then does with that information is up to each. Partners who buy in cannot then change the approach; let’s not diverge where we don’t need to; and collaborate where we can.

– Ms Weatherson invited the MPA and SRV to come up with a partnership model for the data collection.

17.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note:

a. That, in consultation with the Metropolitan Planning Authority and Sport & Recreation Victoria regarding broadening the partnership, the final draft brief is to be agreed by all councils by the end of September 2015;

b. That the City of Melbourne, as lead council of the project to date, intends to seek expressions of interest that nominates a price to complete work to achieve the first three study objectives as listed above and a separate price that costs the entire project.


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c. That this information is presented to the November 2015 committee meeting. MOVED MS SLATTER / Mr Lawler A vote was taken and the MOTION was CARRIED Action: The Executive Officer/Ms Weatherson to follow up the invitation for MPA and SRV to come up with a partnership model for the data collection.

CONFIDENTIAL ITEMS

It was noted that the confidential items would fail for lack of a quorum, due to a conflict of interest. The Committee agreed to refer the last 2 items in the confidential part of the meeting to electronic approval and/or referral to the next meeting.

OTHER BUSINESS

There was no other business. The meeting closed at 10.24am Next Meeting Friday 27 November 2015 (8.00am) City of Yarra – Meeting Room 1

IMAP Implementation Committee Meeting 28 August 2015 – Endorsement of Minutes

Chairperson: Cr Touzeau _____________________________ Date __________________ RESOLUTIONS

1.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to appoint Cr Jane Touzeau as the Chair of the Meeting.

2.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the following apologies: – Cr Amanda Stevens, Mayor, City of Port Phillip – Cr Melina Sehr, Mayor, City of Stonnington – Cr Ken Ong, Chair Future Melbourne (Planning) Committee, City of Melbourne – Mr Warren Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, City of Stonnington – Mr Rod Anderson, Strategy and Partnerships Regional Manager- Port Phillip, DELWP – Ms Rebecca Collins, Director Transport Strategies, Transport Integration Div, DEDJTR – Ms Annick Philipsz, Director – Inner City Region, DEDJTR – Mr Vince Punaro, Regional Director, Metro NW Region, VicRoads

4.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm the minutes of the IMAP Implementation Committee No. 38 held on 29 May 2015 as an accurate record.

5.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm the minutes of the IMAP Executive Forum No. 17 held on 7 August 2015 as an accurate record.

6.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the actions undertaken in response to business arising from the previous minutes.

7.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. note the Communications and Governance Briefing Paper; and b. approve the meeting dates for 2016.

8.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to:


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a. approve the 2015 updates to the following IMAP governance documents: i. IMAP Operational Protocol; ii. IMAP Procurement Policy and MoU for Goods and Services; iii. IMAP Communications Plan and Media Protocol; iv. MoU - Intellectual Property agreement (IMAP map); and

b. authorise the CEOs to sign the documents on behalf of the IMAP Councils.

9.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to receive the IMAP Financial Report for the year ending 30 June 2015.

10.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to approve the IMAP Annual Report and IMAP Annual Report Summary for distribution.

11.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the IMAP Progress Report for August 2015.

12.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. note the request to participate in the Destination Management Plan and Local Government Visitor

Program Proposal by DML; and b. request a further IMAP report to the next IMAP meeting on DML’s request.

13.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. Endorse the Draft Inner Melbourne Action Plan; and b. Recommend the five member Councils be briefed on the Draft Plan.

14.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. note the continuing work of the IMAP Tourism Working Group. b. approve the IMAP Tourism Working Group to update the schedule of MELBOURNE OFFICIAL

VISITOR MAP – PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT between the IMAP Councils and Destination Melbourne Ltd for another twelve months: and

c. approve the 2015-16 Tourism Working Group Action Plan.

15.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to: a. note the report of the Coordinating Committee’s work, and b. endorse the strategic approach being proposed.

17.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note: a. That, in consultation with the Metropolitan Planning Authority and Sport & Recreation Victoria regarding

broadening the partnership, the final draft brief is to be agreed by all councils by the end of September 2015;

b. That the City of Melbourne, as lead council of the project to date, intends to seek expressions of interest that nominates a price to complete work to achieve the first three study objectives as listed above and a separate price that costs the entire project.

c. That this information is presented to the November 2015 committee meeting.

ACTIONS PUBLIC RECORD

Item Responsibility Action Due

5. Minutes IMAP Exec Officer

IMAP Executive Officer to correct the year on the minutes to 2015. Sept

7. Comms & Gov

IMAP Exec Officer

Executive Officer to circulate meeting dates for 2016 to the IMAP councils Sept

8. Gov docs

IMAP Exec Officer

Executive Officer to arrange for the IMAP governance documents to be signed Nov

10 .Annual Report

IMAP Exec Officer

Executive Officer to arrange distribution of the Annual Report and Summary Nov

12. DML presentation

IMAP Exec Officer

– The Executive Officer to make arrangements with Steve Booth and the Council CEO’s/senior executives to meet with the interim CEO Visit Victoria

– A further IMAP staff report to be prepared for the next IMAP meeting on DMLs proposal

Sept

13. IMAP Review

IMAP Exec Officer

The Executive Officer to arrange for the IMAP Councils to be briefed on the Draft plan.

Nov

14 .Action 11

Tourism working group

Tourism working group to arrange renewal of the Schedule to the Agreement with DML to include a further year

Sept

16. Action 7.2

IMAP Exec Officer

Executive Officer to circulate item 16 (Urban Manufacturing) for out of committee approval

Sept

17. Action 5.5

IMAP Exec Officer

Executive Officer/Ms Weatherson to follow up the invitation for MPA and SRV to come up with a partnership model for the data collection.

Nov

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From: Elissa McElroySent: Wednesday, 23 September 2015 2:37 PMTo: CoM - Cr Ken Ong; CoM - Geoff Lawler; CoMaribyrnong - Stephen Wall; CoPP - Cr

Amanda Stevens Email1 ([email protected]); CoPP - Cr Amanda Stevens Email2 ([email protected]); CoPP - Tracey Slatter ([email protected]); CoS - Cr Melina Sehr 2; CoY - Cr Phillip Vlahogiannis ([email protected]); CoY - Vijaya Vaidyanath ([email protected]); Cr Nam Quach ([email protected]); Melina Sehr; Warren Roberts

Cc: CoPP - Virginia Miller ([email protected]); Uni Melb - Jennifer Eve Day ([email protected])

Subject: IMAP Action 7.2 Urban Manufacturing - Result for out of committee decision making

Hello All,

Thank you to those of you who got back to me regarding the out-of-committee approval for the recommendation on

the Urban Manufacturing report.

The following recommendation has been APPROVED:

16.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee re solves to:

a. accept the draft Phase 1 report and agree to a revi sed integration of Phase 2 & 3.

b. endorse the continuation of the Urban Manufacturing Project and instructs the Steering Committee to apply for ARC Linkage Grant funding in September 2015 in line with the original IMAP resolution of matched funding.

c. accept the Steering Committee’s recommendation to r equest Moreland Council as a partner in the project, subject to an MoU being sig ned between IMAP and the City of Moreland.

Responses to approve the recommendation have been received as follows:

Cr K Ong, City of Melbourne – email 18/9/2015

Cr P Vlahogiannis, City of Yarra – email 17/9/2015

Cr M Sehr, City of Stonnington – email 16/9/2015

Mr S Wall, City of Marubynong – email 16/9/2015

Mr W Roberts, City of Stonningotn – email 16/9/2015

Ms V Vaidyanath, City of Yarra – email 16/9/2015

Ms T Slatter, City of Port Phillip – email 11/9/2015

Mr G Lawler, City of Melbourne - noted a conflict of interest at the meeting.

Cr N Quach, City of Maribyrnong – noted on leave.

This meets the requirement of the IMAP Operational Protocol for a majority vote to include 6 committee members

of which the support of 3 must be elected representatives to pass a motion.

Thank you all for your assistance with this item.

Kind regards,

Elissa

Elissa McElroy

IMAP Executive Officer | Inner Melbourne Action Plan

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T: 8290 1110 | M: 0404 248 450 | F: 8290 1105 | [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________________

Officer Location: CITY OF STONNINGTON

PO Box 21 Prahran, Victoria 3181

www.imap.vic.gov.au

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Elissa McElroy

To: IMAP Implementation CommitteeSubject: IMAP Out of Committee approval - IMAP Implementation Committee confidential

minutes for 29 May 2015

Hello All, This is to advise that the IMAP Implementation Committee Confidential minutes have been approved out–of-Committee, following their deferral at the August meeting due to loss of quorum. They can now be signed and distributed. Approvals to the following resolution were received as follows: Confirmation of Minutes (Attachment 15) 17.1 That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to confirm the Confidential minutes of the IMAP

Implementation Committee No. 38 held on 29 May 2015 as an accurate record. Cr Stevens, Mayor City of Port Phillip – email dated 28/9/2015 Cr Quach, Mayor Maribyrnong City Council – email dated 23/9/2015 Cr Ong, Chair Planning Committee City of Melbourne – Email dated 14/9/2015 Cr Vlahogiannis, Mayor City of Yarra - Email dated 11.9.2015 Mr Wall, CEO Maribyrnong City Council – email dated 15/9/2015 Ms Slatter, CEO City of Port Phillip – email dated 11/9/2015 Cr Sehr – email dated 11/9/2015 noted she had not been in attendance. The 6 responses received comprise a majority of the Committee and therefore the resolution is APPROVED. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Kind regards, Elissa

Elissa McElroy

IMAP Executive Officer | Inner Melbourne Action Plan

T: 8290 1110 | M: 0404 248 450 | F: 8290 1105 | [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________________

Officer Location: CITY OF STONNINGTON

PO Box 21 Prahran, Victoria 3181

www.imap.vic.gov.au

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Report prepared by Elissa McElroy IMAP Executive Officer

IMAP Implementation Committee Business Arising

27 November 2015

A IMAP Implementation Committee (25 May 2012) Responsibility Action Due Progress 15 Action 6.3


Arrange preparation of a submission to the Department of Justice on changes to the definitions; meeting with the Minister

July 2012

Aug 2015

In Progress: working group established to initiate submission – commenced 5 Feb 2015.

B IMAP Implementation Committee (28 February 2014) Responsibility Action Due Progress 11. Action 3.5 Thru traffic – freight study

Mr Haining/Ms Dallas MaribyrnongCC

Mr Haining/Ms Dallas MaribyrnongCC to convene technical experts from across the IMAP Councils to investigate extensions to current freight studies and report back.

TBA

C IMAP Implementation Committee (30 May 2014) Responsibility Action Due Progress 13 Other Bus

CoM - Manager City Research (Austin Ley)

Convene a Working Group of the IMAP Councils with City of Melbourne’s Manager City Research (Austin Ley) to examine sharing the costs and benefits of establishing an IMAP CLUE

ASAP In Progress. Pilot part of Urban Manufacturing study

D IMAP Implementation Committee (28 November 2014) Responsibility Action Due Progress 12 Action 9.4 GGG

Coordinator Green Infrastructure CoM

The Coordinator Green Infrastructure, City of Melbourne to identify appropriate staff to attend the Policy Reference group and report back on issues raised.

TBA

E IMAP Implementation Committee (28 August 2015) Responsibility Action Due Progress 5 Minutes confirmation


IMAP Executive Officer to correct the year on the minutes to 2015.

Sept Completed

7 Comms & Gov IMAP Executive Officer

Executive Officer to circulate meeting dates for 2016 to the IMAP councils

Sept Completed

8 Gov Docs IMAP Executive Officer

Executive Officer to arrange for the IMAP governance documents to be signed

Nov Completed

10 Ann Report IMAP Executive Officer

Executive Officer to arrange distribution of the Annual Report and Summary

Nov Completed

12 DML presentation

IMAP Executive Officer/Steve Booth Tourism working group response

The Executive Officer to make arrangements with Steve Booth and the Council CEO’s/senior executives to meet with the interim CEO Visit Victoria A further IMAP staff report to be prepared for the next IMAP meeting on DMLs proposal

Sept Nov

In Progress Completed. Refer item 10 (Att 7)

13 IMAP Review/Draft plan


The Executive Officer to arrange for the IMAP Councils to be briefed on the Draft plan and external comments sought.

Nov Briefings in progress

14 Action 11 Tourism working group

Tourism working group to arrange renewal of the Schedule to the Agreement with DML to include a further year

Sept

16 Action 7.2 IMAP Executive Officer

Executive Officer to circulate item 16 (Urban Manufacturing) for out of committee approval

Sept Completed

17 Action 5.5 IMAP Exec Officer/ Director Community Development, CoM

Executive Officer/Ms Weatherston to follow up the invitation for MPA and SRV to come up with a partnership model for the data collection.

Nov Completed



Correspondence

From

Regarding

Outward: 3a Letters of Support for ARC Linkage grant(Urban Manufacturing)

• Chief Executive Officer, City of Port Phillip • Acting Chief Executive, City of Moreland • Acting Manager, Smart City Office, City of Melbourne • Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Planning

Authority 3b M Rathje, City of Stonnington for IMAP Tourism Working Group Inward: 3c Email Dr J Day, University of Melbourne 3d Acting Mayor, City of Port Phillip 3e A/Regional Director Port Phillip DELWP 3f Office of the Minister, Lisa Neville

Support for ARC Linkage grant(Urban Manufacturing) Comments on CoM Draft Tourism Action Plan Confirming ARC Linkage grant application submitted Document entitled Climate Change – A Risk Assessment Congratulations for Premier’s Sustainability Award for the Growing Green Guide Finalist in the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2015

Recommendation: That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the actions undertaken in response to business arising from the previous minutes.

of 115LP160100122 (Draft) Dr Jennifer Day PDF Created: 10/11/2015

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Elissa McElroy

From: Melissa RathjeSent: Wednesday, 23 September 2015 1:51 PMTo: Elissa McElroySubject: FW: TRIM: RE: City of Melbourne draft Tourism Action Plan - for your comments

HP TRIM Record Number: 15/84061

Melissa Rathje

Economic Development Coordinator | Economic and Cultural Development T: 8290 1225 | [email protected]

From: Melissa Rathje

Sent: Tuesday, 22 September 2015 4:51 PM

To: 'Lisa Velardo' Cc: 'Swinson, Kim' Subject: TRIM: RE: City of Melbourne draft Tourism Action Plan - for your comments

Dear Lisa

Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the City of Melbourne’s draft Tourism Action Plan 2015-18

and for the extension – and my apologies for the delay in responding.

I am pleased to be able to make comment on behalf of the Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMAP) Tourism Working

Group. The Group wishes to congratulate the City of Melbourne on this initiative and reinforces the importance

that such a document has for a capital city council. As the tourism gateway for inner Melbourne and regional

Victoria this is an important document for the entire State.

We acknowledges the significant investment that the City of Melbourne has already made, and continues to make

to encouraging tourism in the city and the profound impact that it has had on Melbourne’s profile, both locally and

internationally.

Structuring the Plan around the five key stages in the visitor information journey: journey planning, travel to the

destination, arrival, experiences during the stay, and departure and reflection, provides a comprehensive framework

for supporting and fostering tourism development and investment in Melbourne.

We wholly endorse the proposed principles, goals, outcomes and actions, and agree that that each project within

the Plan has clear objectives, roles and responsibilities. Specifically, we raise the following considerations:

• It is noticeable that the plan does not discuss the environment for providing and developing tourism

opportunities in terms of the key stakeholders. It may be useful to nominate the roles and responsibilities

of the State and National stakeholders and Destination Melbourne plus any others, including the key

objectives that they are working to. This will help to contextualise the role of the City of Melbourne.

• Further to the above point, the Tourism Working Group sees an opportunity for the plan to acknowledge

the Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMAP) as an entity and separate to that, the neighbouring councils that

make up the inner Melbourne area. As representatives of the councils neighbouring the City of Melbourne,

we identify a number of strategies that could benefit from collaboration and also recognise that visitors to

Melbourne often straddle council boundaries enjoying the experiences that are offered in our

municipalities.

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• It seems appropriate that the plan might pick-up the key objectives of the IMAP Tourism Working Group and

also the current priority actions that the Group is working on, given that these incorporate resourcing of the

City of Melbourne. To this end I have attached the Action Plan for 2015/16 newly adopted by the IMAP

Executive Committee; one of the key projects is to develop a digital presence for the inner Melbourne

councils.

• Other key projects that IMAP has been involved in that have relevance to the draft Tourism Action Plan are;

developing an integrated way-finding system and the development of a connected open space system

including cycling trails. These infrastructure related projects have relevance to Strategy 13 of the draft plan.

There are other elements related to the public realm and physical infrastructure that could be picked up in

this strategy. While not central to tourism, they have relevance to creating an environment that will

contribute to a visitors experience and may result in longer stay, feelings of safety etc that have a direct

relationship to encouraging tourism. These include ensuring the availability and accessibility of public toilets

that are safe to use, provision of public transport and taxi services, and even liquor control policy that

enables the development of a prosperous and safe night time economy.

• In discussing the ‘In destination’ elements of Melbourne, it may be worth adding elements of safety,

accessibility and friendliness to the attributes that are already included in the plan (such as walkability,

liveability).

• The plan identifies the trend in experiential marketing and demand for the ‘real’ user experience. This is

seen as a growing method of promotion and will help to position Melbourne at the forefront of information

searching by the largest market sectors.

• We support recognition of the Asian market given its strong growth and out-performance of other key

target markets.

• It is noted that famils are not included in the actions and this could be an avenue to help the City of

Melbourne ensure it is appropriately networked and has the opportunity to showcase key attributes and

features to influential market drivers.

Again I thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this important discussion and congratulation to all those

involved on the work undertaken to date.

Kind regards

Melissa Rathje

Economic Development Coordinator | Economic and Cultural Development T: 8290 1225 | [email protected]

From: Lisa Velardo [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2015 12:06 PM

To: Melissa Rathje Subject: City of Melbourne draft Tourism Action Plan - for your comments

Dear Melissa, As the Chairperson of the IMAP Tourism Working Group, it is my great pleasure to provide you with a copy of the draft City of Melbourne Tourism Action Plan 2015-2018 (attached) and to invite you to provide written feedback. In July, Council’s Future Melbourne Committee approved release of the draft plan for targeted industry consultation. The draft will be available for comment until mid-September.

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We are hoping you can review the draft plan and provide feedback on the proposed goals, outcomes and actions. We’d also like your advice on other issues and opportunities you believe the City of Melbourne’s Tourism Action Plan could incorporate. The following information might help when reviewing this draft:

• The City of Melbourne Tourism Action Plan: 2015-2018 will be a plan for the organisation. The Plan will set out Council’s aspiration for visitors, the visitor economy and the destination, as well as its roles and responsibilities in the industry.

• The current draft reflects issues and opportunities raised during our internal consultation. • Much of what is proposed in the draft plan will require collaboration between the City of Melbourne

and industry partners. • For this reason, throughout August and September we will be consulting with key industry, transport

and business groups. We will be seeking written feedback on the current draft to assist in the development of the final version of the Plan.

• Feedback and comments on the draft are due by Friday 18 September. • Following completion of the consultation, the final version of the Plan will be submitted to Council’s

Future Melbourne Committee in mid-November for their endorsement. (The Future Melbourne Committee consists of the Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle, Deputy Lord Mayor, Susan Riley; and all City of Melbourne Councillors).

In light of the State Government’s announcements last week regarding organisational change and Brand Victoria, we will also be reviewing some of the proposed actions in the current draft to best reflect these changes of direction. If you would like to submit comments on the draft, please email them to me by 18 September ([email protected]). If you would like any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Lisa Velardo | Tourism Projects Officer | Business and Tourism Melbourne City of Melbourne | Council House 2, 240 Little Collins Street Melbourne 3000 | GPO Box 1603 Melbourne 3001 T: 03 9658 8422 | E: [email protected] www.melbourne.vic.gov.au | www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/whatson We value: Integrity | Courage | Accountability | Respect | Excellence Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this email.

This email is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the addressee indicated please delete it immediately.

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Elissa McElroy

From: Jennifer Eve Day [[email protected]]Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 9:20 AMTo: Miller, Virginia; Austin Ley; Emily Mottram; Jane Monk; Elissa McElroy; Maria-Luisa

NardellaCc: Brendan James Gleeson; Paul Jensen; Jennifer Eve Day; Hayley ShawSubject: Linkage SubmittedAttachments: Authority to submitLP160100122.pdf; LP160100122 Final.pdf

Hello Team,

I am writing to let you know that the Linkage application is compiled, completed and submitted to the University

Research, Innovation, and Commercialisation (RIC) office, which is responsible for final submission. The University has a

deadline of COB today to make the final submission to the ARC. In short, it is now out of my hands and in the capable

hands of the University, where it will be well looked after. We have already undergone multiple compliance and content

checks at various levels, and I am assured that both my faculty Research Office and RIC that the project has an great

chance of being funded. I have just spoken to RIC, and they will submit the application shortly.

Thanks to everyone for your hard work. This was a wonderful team effort and, to me, illustrates our capacity to come

together as a group and our collective commitment to this inquiry. I expect us to produce fantastic work together.

I attach the completed application for your records.

I am now going to get back to work on our core activities. My next step is to compile the final Phase 1 report with the

research findings. My next email to you will be later in December will be to update you on this report. Sometime after

that, I hope I’ll be writing with good news about the Linkage application. We don’t expect to know anything until a couple

of months into next year. I will be seeing most of you well before that as we begin to plan our next wave of activity.

Until then, all the very best,

Jennie

Reference 30/01/173Enquiries: Julian DonlenTelephone: (03) 9209 6364

1 September 2015

Ms Elissa McElroyIMAP Executive OfficerInner Melbourne Action Plan Implementation CommittStonnington Council1251 High StreetMALVERN VIC 3144

Dear Ms McElroy

RE: 'Climate Change: A Risk Assessment'

I am writing to you on the need to advocate to all State and Federal Governments to developand vigorously pursue integrated policy frameworks aiming for serious reduction of carbonemissions globally to try to avoid or reduce the risks of Climate Change.

The recent report from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office "Climate Change: A RiskAssessment" says the risks of climate change should be assessed in the same way as risks tonational security or public health. Anticipated intolerable thresholds include heat stress, cropfailure, coastal cities' inability to adapt to rising sea levels, necessary mass migration and failedstates.

The City of Port Phillip recognises the importance of the United Nations Climate ChangeConference to be held in Paris in December 2015, as its outcomes will affect the quality of life ofall young and future generations. Australia could contribute to creating a healthier, safer futureby reducing carbon emissions.

The City of Port Phillip supports aspirations for a global commitment to reduce carbonemissions in proportion to the degree of risk outlined in the aforementioned report. We supportaction starting in the nearest possible timeframe, as mitigation is a necessary andcomplementary strategy to adaptive works carried out at public expense on behalf of this andfuture generations.

I encourage you read the report and consider its recommendations, which can be found at:http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/proiects/climate−chanoe−risk−assessmentJ

Yours sincerely

CR BERNADENE VOSSActing Mayor

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Ms Gail Hall Coordinator, Green Infrastructure City of Melbourne Council House 2 240 Little Collins Street MELBOURNE VIC 3000

Dear Gail PREMIER’S SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS 2015 Congratulations! You have been selected as a finalist for the Government category of the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2015. These awards recognise and reward businesses, government, institutions, communities and individuals taking an innovative, practical and proactive approach to sustainability. Being named a finalist in these prestigious awards is an impressive achievement and I commend you and your organisation for your commitment, innovation and hard work towards creating a more liveable and prosperous Victoria. As a finalist, you will receive two complimentary invitations to attend the awards ceremony on Thursday 29 October 2015 to be held at the Plaza Ballroom, 191 Collins Street, Melbourne. You are welcome to purchase additional tickets to the ceremony. For further information about the awards and tickets, and to confirm your attendance at the ceremony, please call Clare Vella at Sustainability Victoria on 03 8656 6704 or email [email protected] Once again, congratulations on your achievement. I look forward to meeting you at the awards. Yours sincerely

Hon Lisa Neville MP Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water 21/09/2015



IMAP Implementation Committee

Financial Report for the 3 Months ending 30 September 2015

1 July 2015 – 30 September 2015 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Background 1. The IMAP financial position was last noted at the IMAP Implementation Committee meeting held on

28 August 2015. 2. Retained Earnings carried forward from the 2014-15 financial year totalled $433,067 (excluding

GST). $60,222 of this total is the surplus in the tourism projects account.. Income

3. Income indicates the Carry Forward of $433,067 during the first quarter. Invoicing the IMAP councils is being undertaken in the second quarter.

4. Total Income for the 3 month period to 30 September 2015: 2800 Sundry Income:

Retained Earnings carried forward from 2014-15 $ 433,067 2810 Contract Income: IMAP Councils Annual IMAP Contribution (5 Councils) 0

_______________________________________________________________________________ TOTAL OPERATING INCOME $433,067

_____________________________________________________________________

Expenditure 5. Total Expenditure for the 3 month period to 30 September 2015: 4104 Postage and Courier IMAP Postage - August $ 76

Postage - September $ 127 Couriers: agendas $ 305 $ 508

4150 Consulting Fees IMAP IMAP Review Completion Stage 2 $ 3,640 IMAP Review Completion Stage 3 $ 6,500 Action 5.2 Housing Forum – Yarra Film Contractor $ 2,000 Action 7.2 Urban Manufacturing Project Phase 1 $ 20,000 $ 32,140 Action 9.4 Distributed Energy (CSIRO Accrual –await invoice) - $ 80,000 -$ 47,860 4211 Staff catering IMAP Catering: IMAP $ 195 Catering: IMAP $ 85 $ 280 TOTAL EXPENDITURE - $ 47,071 ________________________________________________________________________ Operating Profit / (Loss) $ 480,138

________________________________________________________________________ NET SURPLUS $ 480,138 ________________________________________________________________________



6. Refer to Attachment 6b to see total expenditure against project budgets to date. The CSIRO accrual awaits receipt of the final invoice upon completion of the work.

Recommendation 7. That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to receive the IMAP Financial Report for the

Three Months ending 30 September 2015.

Reporting Scope - IMAP 27 November 2015 Attachment 4a Operating Perfomance -269166.1%

Operating & Capital Works Statement for period ended September 2015 Capital Perfomance 0.0%

CURRENT MONTH YEAR TO DATE

TotalCommitted Budget Variance

UnmatchedPurchase

Orders ActualsTotal

Committed Budget Variance

2800 - Sundry Income 433,067 0 433,067 0 433,067 433,067 0 433,067

Other Revenue 433,067 0 433,067 0 433,067 433,067 0 433,067

Total Operating Income 433,067 0 433,067 0 433,067 433,067 0 433,067

4104 - Postage & Couriers 433 59 -373 0 508 508 178 -3304150 - Consulting Fees 15,228 0 -15,228 0 -47,860 -47,860 0 47,860

Administration Expenditure 15,661 59 -15,601 0 -47,351 -47,351 178 47,530

4211 - Staff Catering 0 0 0 0 280 280 0 -280Materials, Services and Maintenance

0 0 0 0 280 280 0 -280

Total Operating Expenditure 15,661 59 -15,601 0 -47,071 -47,071 178 47,250

Operating Profit / (Loss) 417,406 -59 417,466 0 480,138 480,138 -178 480,317

Net Surplus / (Deficit) 417,406 -59 417,466 0 480,138 480,138 -178 480,317

Attachment 4b

IMAP Projects: Expenditure against Budget 2015-16Expenditure for the 3 months ending 30 September 2015

REVENUEREVISED BUDGET 2014-15Year 9

ACTUALS 1st qtr

Total YTD VARIANCE

IMAP Councils Annual Contribution ($35K each) 175,000 -175,000

IMAP Councils Annual Tourism Contribution ($20K each) 100,000 -100,000

IMAP Map licensing fees 700 -700

Total Revenue 275,700 0 0 -275,700

PROJECT ALLOCATIONSBUDGET 2015-16Year 9

ACTUALS 1st qtr

Total YTD VARIANCE

Committed - Funded Notes

IMAP Website, Catering, Admin exps Ongoing Annual Costs 7,000 788 788 -6,212

IMAP Annual Report design and print Ongoing Annual Costs 6,000 0 -6,000IMAP GIS Expenses Ongoing Annual Costs 7,600 0 -7,600IMAP Renew website New 45,000 0 -45,000

IMAP IMAP Review Project CurrentC/Fwd $24,873+ funding $15k (approved Feb 2015) 39,873 10,140 10,140 -29,733

2.4 Wayfinding signs CurrentVisitor Signs Master Style Guide C/Fwd $45,440 +Wyndham contribution $20K) 65,440 0 -65,440

5.2 Affordable Housing - Housing Forum Current Funds approved May 2015 5,000 2,000 2,000 -3,000

Balance of funds provided for initial work 2,200 0 -2,200Urban Manufacturing: Project costs $300K: $90K from IMAP ($18K per council). Subject to matched funds CC/ARC Linkage. (Carry Fwd $20K)

40,000 20,000 20,000 -20,000

Current1. Factsheets budget balance carried forward 329 0 -329

Current2. ESD Policies advocacy budget - for factsheets use (balance C/Fwd $10K - committed)

10,000 0 -10,000

Green Roof initiatives (balance C/Fwd $207 - ongoing costs) 207 0 -207Unimelb ARC grant contribution Year 3 of 3 (Committed) 20,000 0 -20,000

Current Distributed Energy Map (CSIRO) -accrued - 0 0

CurrentDML Map Agreement (Committed). (Year 3 2015/16 TBC) +CPI of 3% 47,741 0 -47,741

ProposedDestination Management Plan (DML)- funded from Carry Fwd$50K 50,000 0 -50,000

Current3 year Tourism Strategy - Year 2 of 3 (+ Carry Fwd $68,096) 58,982 0 -58,982

2.3 Bike Network legibility Current Mapping priority routes 0 0Current 1. Capital Program - Bike Lanes 0 0

Not started 2. Measure & map Level of Service rating 0 0

10.1 Regional Open Space & trail network Current Work undertaken by MPA 0 0

On hold 1. Establish joint view on Hoddle St 0 0

Not started 2. Boulevard Study 40,000 0 -40,000

3.2 Roads as Places Not Started Brief prepared. Not started. Funds C/Fwd 40,000 0 -40,000

3.5 Reduced through traffic Not startedParking provisions which support sustainable transport (Deferred to 2015-16 Feb 2015) 30,000

0 -30,000

5.4 Social Infrastructure and Services 20,000 0 -20,000

5.5 Infrastructure Development 20,000 0 -20,000

8.1 Priority for freight movement Not started Freight Movement Strategic Plan 87,500 0 -87,500

9.2

Environmentally Sustainable Design - commercial buildings

Not started3. Identify ESD retrofit issues. Funds C/Fwd 30,000 0 -30,000

Total Expenditure 672,872 32,928 32,928 (639,944) Net Surplus (Deficit) -397,172 -32,928 -32,928Opening Balance of IMAP Account 433,066 400,138Closing Balance of IMAP Account 35,894 367,210Please note that the funding calculation does not include Operational Costs of $40,000 per council in 2015/16.

Committed - Funded - Not Started

1.4Boulevards & Major Roads - Hoddle Street

Not startedLinked: Proposal to map growth areas & locate current services & identify funding requirements for future planning

9.4 Green Demonstration ProjectsCurrent

Committed - Not funded

2.5 Bicycle Network:

Regional Tourism Strategy 11

27 November 2015

7.2 Support Creative Businesses Current

9.2Environmentally Sustainable Design -

commercial buildings


Report prepared by: Elissa McElroy, IMAP Executive Officer


Progress Report

IMAP Communications and Governance

Purpose

___________________________________________________________________________________

1 To advise the IMAP Implementation Committee of the progress of IMAP Communications and

Governance during the last 3 month period.

Governance

2 IMAP Review:

a. Checking for consistency

Following review by the last IMAP Implementation Committee in August, work on the draft plan has included:

b. Meetings to further refine the plan’s performance indicators with:

i. The IMAP Review working party providing an overview

ii. Varous council staff provided information and feedback on data gathering and reporting

iii. Members of the RMF Liveability Indicators project team assisted with linkages between RMF and IMAP Indicators

iv. CoS staff provided assistance to reduce and focus indicators

c. Finalised the IMAP Councils’ briefing dates and prepared the draft report and attachments for council briefings. Prepared the briefing presentation with CoM staff assistance. Briefings are arranged as follows:

i. Stonnington 23 November

ii. Yarra 30 November

iii. Melbourne 1 December

iv. Maribyrnong 1 December

v. Port Phillip 8 December

Refer Item 10 /Attachment 7 - IMAP Review update

3 Update to the IMAP governance documents

4

: the updated IMAP governance documents have been signed and copies supplied to governance staff for council files.

IMAP Annual Report 2014-15:

The printed summary has been distributed to the mailing list of local, state and federal government representatives.

The IMAP Annual Report and Summary was approved at the last committee meeting and has been distributed to all councillors and members of the IMAP Implementation committee.

Electronic copies have been emailed to a broad range of council staff and included on the IMAP wesbite.

Communications

5 During the last 3 months the following activities have involved the Executive Officer and others in IMAP communications:

o Action 2.2 Wayfinding Signage Master Style Guide

21 September: a Signage Infrastructure Design Workshop looked at design isses of signs - functionality, legibility, accessibility and view from different distances.

22 October: meeting of the Steering group


Report prepared by: Elissa McElroy, IMAP Executive Officer

o Action 5.2 Affordable Housing

9 October: Affordable Housing Forum hosted by City of Yarra attracted around 90 attendees

Refer Item 14 /Attachment 11 – Housing Forum overview

Refer media release 5d attached

o Action 7.2 Support Creative Businesses (Urban Manufacturing)

The Urban Manufacturing Phase 1 report and recommendations were referred to the committee for approval out of committee following this item being deferred at the last meeting.

25 September: Urban Manufacturing Steering group meeting looked at establishment of the website and the crowdspot data gathering approach

The IMAP website was updated to include a resource page for the project and referral to the new maker.melbourne site for mapping business locations.

Letters of support were prepared for the ARC Linkage grant and the application has been submitted by Dr Day.

o Action 9.2 Environmental Sustainable Design factsheets

20 October: The project team met to agree final revisions and has sent out revised license agreements to all councils using the factsheets (20 including the IMAP Councils). The agreement covers the full set of 15 factsheets and refers to best practice policies, limiting variations that can be made by individual councils.

o Action 9.4 Green Demonstration Projects

29 October: The Growing Green Guide won the 2015 Premiers Sustainability Award for Education. The project was also a finalist in the Government category.

Refer to correspondence attachments 3e and 3f.

Refer to media releases attached - attachments 5a-c.

The Executive Officer has had further discussions with CSIRO regarding the Distributed Energy data for the IMAP councils’ GIS.

Other

16 September/15 October: The Executive Officer arranged for IMAP Council transport planners/engineers,statutory planners and local laws officers to attend a presentation by Samantha Taylor, ARRB consultants at MPA offices on their research project “Overcoming barriers to off peak freight movement in Urban Areas”. Staff were able to provide useful input and assist with case study applications.

29 September: Economic development staff from the IMAP councils met CoM staff to discuss their greater involvement in Melbourne Knowledge Week in 2016. MKW opened this year on 19 October.

The Through-traffic data has been loaded onto the IMAP GIS.

9-17 September: The Executive Officer was on Jury Duty

23-26 October: The Stonnington Council moved offices - the IMAP Executive Officer is now located at 311 Glenferrie Road.

Recommendation

That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the Communications and Governance Briefing Paper.

Attachments:

5a Media release, 30 Sept 2015: the Growing Green Guide – Finalist in the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2015 5b Melbourne University Staff/Student E-News (MUSSE): Growing Green Guide wins Premier’s Sustainability

award 5c Media release SV: Melbourne Uni’s Growing Green Guide wins Premier’s Sustainability Award 5d Media release CoY on the Future of Inner City Social Housing Forum

Media release 30 September 2015

The Growing Green Guide - Finalist in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2015

A free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades, The Growing Green Guide, has been announced as a finalist in two categories (Government and Education) in this year's Victorian Premier's Sustainability Awards.

The Guide is the result of a unique partnership between the University of Melbourne, Inner Melbourne Action Plan members - the City of Melbourne, City of Yarra, City of Stonnington and City of Port Phillip - and the State Government.

Sustainability Victoria CEO Stan Krpan congratulated the team for their creative and influential work towards building a more sustainable environment for all Victorians. “Delivering these awards each year means we continue to discover the passion and talent Victorians have for protecting their natural environment and thinking creatively about new sustainable practices. “These awards represent Victoria’s highest recognition for sustainability, and acknowledge leadership, innovation and achievement. “The more we embed sustainable measures into our day to day lives, the better the outcomes will be, now and into the future,” Mr Krpan said.

Innovative methods are required to help Melbournians adapt to climate change and keep our mantle as the world’s most liveable city. Incorporating vegetation on buildings, such as green roofs and walls, can greatly help, but is hampered by a lack of knowledge and skills around how these technologies can be used successfully.

The Growing Green Guide for Melbourne project is a partnership between the University of Melbourne, Inner Melbourne Action Plan and the State Government as a free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades. The Guide is available @ www.growinggreenguide.org.

Released in February 2014, the Guide has achieved significant success in Australia - with more than 70,000 website downloads - and has been translated to Spanish and Chinese.

Now in their 13th

year, the Premier's Sustainability Awards continue to promote leadership and innovation in sustainability, and encourage a broader adoption of these practices by all Victorians.

In addition to the category awards, the Premier of Victoria, the Hon Daniel Andrews will personally select two winners for the Premier's Regional Recognition Award and the Premier's Recognition Award. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday 29 October at

the Plaza Ballroom, Melbourne. Tickets are now available for purchase at www.sustainabilityawards.vic.gov.au until Friday 23 October.

Please see a backgrounder on page 2 which lists finalists in all categories. For media, contact Cath Newell on 0423 587 478.

www.sustainabilityawards.vic.gov.au

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The 2015 Premier's Sustainability Awards finalists are: Built Environment:

• Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alliance - Watts Working Better Innovative street lighting project replacing over 13,000 energy inefficient lights, reducing energy use and saving landfill across nine Victorian regional councils.

• University of Melbourne - Melbourne School of Design State-of-the-art academic facility committed to sustainability and green architecture sets a new standard in design education.

Community: • Garage Sale Trail Foundation - Garage Sale Trail

A national waste education program organises thousands of garage sales across Australia on the same day.

• Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority - Fruit Industry Employment Program Collaboration between industry, community and government to develop an employment program for workers affected by cuts at a large food production company.

• St Kilda Mums, Geelong Mums and Eureka Mums - Recycle, Reuse, Rehome Volunteers collect, reuse and recycle pre-loved babies and children's gear, sharing the joy of parenthood and saving the earth's precious resources.

Education: • Lalor Primary School - Kids Building Computers Using Electronic Waste

Teaching children to build computers using electronic waste resulting in a fully functioning computer being built for less than $100.

• Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne - Sustainability Business Clinic Connecting law students to small, start-up community, environmental and social enterprises working in the public interest to advance sustainability to provide free legal advice.

• The University of Melbourne - The Growing Green Guide for Melbourne Free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades, funded by government, industry and universities in response to changing climate.

Environmental Justice: • Darebin City Council - Darebin Solar Saver

Making solar power more accessible to low income residents - households install solar PV systems and pay them off through Council rates, interest free over 10 years.

• The Australian Youth Climate Coalition - Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network builds a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people for climate justice.

• Voices of the Valley - Revealing the Community Cost of the Hazelwood Mine Fire Community advocacy group, formed after the Hazelwood Mine Fire, voices health impacts and risks experienced by residents of Morwell.

Environmental Protection: • Barwon Health - Barwon Health Food Services Central Production Unit Recycling Initiatives

Major health service is the first in Victoria to implement the Closed Loop Organics System, an onsite composting machine for food waste.

• Robert Bosch Australia- Reclamation of Copper from Prescribed Industrial Wastewater In-house treatment process reclaiming dissolved copper from manufacturing wastewater, recycling it and using the treated wastewater onsite, eliminating hazardous waste to landfill.

• Statewide River and Stream Management - Environmental Management Training for the Construction Industry A training program for the construction industry supporting best practice in environmental management, embedding skills in culture and operational activities.

Government: • Darebin City Council - Darebin Solar Saver


• Goulburn Valley Waste and Resource Recovery Group and Moira Shire Council - Overcoming Barriers to Effective Household Kerbside Garden and Food Organics Recovery A small rural council introduces an integrated, well-researched service to remove organic waste from landfill and develop sustainable, productive uses for it.

• The Inner Melbourne Action Plan; City of Melbourne, City of Yarra, City of Stonnington, City of Port Phillip - The Growing Green Guide for Melbourne Project Free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades, funded by government, industry and universities in response to changing climate.

Health: • Austin Health - Healthy Environment, Healthy People

The first Melbourne healthcare facility to recruit a dedicated sustainability officer and to host the Victorian Green Health Round Table Group.

• Melbourne Health - Melbourne Health Thinks Green A major health group develops a strategy supporting their vision to be recognised as an industry sustainability leader, outlining priorities for four years.

• Monash Health - Cleaning without chemicals in Healthcare A large Melbourne health service transforms its environmental cleaning practices by cleaning without chemicals across all of its sites.

Innovative Products or Services: • Daylesford & Hepburn Mineral Springs Co. - The Mineral Water Eco-Keg

An innovative locally manufactured product, reduces the use and disposal of packaging, bringing sustainability to the Melbourne hospitality culture.

• ECO2Sys Australia and Geelong Manufacturing Council - GreenLight Collaborative Industry Network Program Holistic approach to sustainable business supporting small to medium enterprise sector to help businesses achieve significant resource efficiency gains and commercial benefit.

• Living Fundraisers - Closet Cleanout An initiative that helps schools and organisations raise money through ethical fundraising and ships unwanted clothes and goods to developing countries.

Small and Medium Enterprises: • Dennison Foods Manufacturing - Dennison Foods Manufacturing

Regional manufacturer implements three major projects, culminating in a carbon footprint reduction, material handling efficiencies and reduced energy usage.

• Roses Gap Recreation Centre - Roses Gap Recreation Centre School camp facility designs and implements a new, sustainable power system including 40kW’s of solar and large battery storage banks.

• Yarra Valley Estate - Yarra Valley Estate Conference, wedding and accommodation centre conducts certified sustainability programs spanning energy, water, waste and community development.

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A free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades, known as the Growing Green Guide for Melbourne (http://www.growinggreenguide.org) , has won the

Education category in this year's Premier's Sustainability Awards.

The Growing Green Guide for Melbourne project is a partnership between the University of Melbourne, Inner Melbourne Action Plan and the State Government.

Co-developer of the Guide and lecturer in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences John Rayner said cities are losing vegetation cover as population density increases.

“For example in the City of Melbourne between 1988 and 2009 vegetation cover decreased from 24.6 to 13.6 per cent. The aim of the Growing Green Guide is to reverse this trend, and start increasing the

amount of green space in cities.

“It’s a difficult field to negotiate, so we thought a local guide that covers design, construction and maintenance of green infrastructure would be useful.”

In 2011 Mr Rayner teamed up with City of Melbourne Coordinator of Green Infrastructure Gail Hall to develop the guide in collaboration with the Inner Melbourne Action Plan, and with funding from the

Victorian Government’s Adaptation and Sustainability Partnership.

Susan Murphy, now a lecturer in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, and project officer Julie Francis then spent two years writing and developing the guide with industry input.

Gerd Bossinger, Head of the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, congratulated everyone who contributed to the guide.

“The Premier’s Sustainability award is a wonderful recognition of individual efforts, but also highlights the impact that cutting-edge horticultural research can have on urban design and amenity in the face of a

changing global climate,” Professor Bossinger said.

Sustainability Victoria CEO Stan Krpan said the Premier’s Sustainability Awards have become a flagship event for industry and practitioners.

“These projects deliver economic, environmental and social benefits, as well as inspire more organisations to think about their own sustainability efforts,” Mr Krpan said.

Read more about the Growing Green Guide on Pursuit (https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/growing-greener-cities)

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Media release Friday 30 October Melbourne Uni's Growing Green Guide wins Premier's Sustainability Award A free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades, known as the Growing Green Guide for Melbourne, developed by the University of Melbourne and partners, has won the Education category in this year's Premier's Sustainability Awards.

Community group St Kilda Mums, Geelong Mums and Eureka Mums won the top honour of the night - the Premier's Recognition Award - for its program recycling, reusing and re-homing babies and children's gear, sharing the joy of parenthood and saving the earth's precious resources.

The Growing Green Guide for Melbourne project is a partnership between the University of Melbourne, Inner Melbourne Action Plan and the State Government as a free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades.

Innovative methods are required to help Melbournians adapt to climate change and keep our mantle as the world’s most liveable city. Incorporating vegetation on buildings, such as green roofs and walls, can greatly help, but is hampered by a lack of knowledge and skills around how these technologies can be used successfully. The Guide addresses these issues and is available @ www.growinggreenguide.org

Sustainability Victoria CEO, Stan Krpan says the Awards Ceremony is a special night, rewarding and recognising Victorians who have made a difference to the environment by implementing sustainable measures to better manage their waste, water and energy consumption.

“Sustainability Victoria has managed the Awards since 2007, and since then, they have become a flagship event for industry and practitioners, attracting many creative minds over the years.”

“Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists and winners. These projects continue to deliver economic, environmental and social benefits, as well as inspire more organisations to think about their own sustainability efforts,” Mr Krpan said.

The Premier also chose Barwon Health as winner of the Premier's Regional Recognition Award for their innovative Food Services Central Production Unit Recycling Initiatives program.

Winners of the 2015 Premier’s Sustainability Awards are: Built Environment Award:

• Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alliance - Watts Working Better Innovative street lighting project replacing over 13,000 energy inefficient lights, reducing energy use and saving landfill across nine Victorian regional councils.

Community Award: • St Kilda Mums, Geelong Mums and Eureka Mums - Recycle, Reuse, Rehome

Volunteers collect, reuse and recycle pre-loved babies and children's gear, sharing the joy of parenthood and saving the earth's precious resources. ...2

http://www.growinggreenguide.org/�

Winners - 2015 Premier's Sustainability Awards - Page 2 Education Award:

• The University of Melbourne - The Growing Green Guide for Melbourne Free, comprehensive and practical guide to the construction of green walls, roofs and facades, funded by government, industry and universities in response to changing climate.

Environmental Justice Award: • Darebin City Council - Darebin Solar Saver


Environmental Protection Award: • Robert Bosch Australia- Reclamation of Copper from Prescribed Industrial Wastewater

In-house treatment process reclaiming dissolved copper from manufacturing wastewater, recycling it and using the treated wastewater onsite, eliminating hazardous waste to landfill.

Government Award: • Goulburn Valley Waste and Resource Recovery Group and Moira Shire Council - Overcoming

Barriers to Effective Household Kerbside Garden and Food Organics Recovery A small rural council introduces an integrated, well-researched service to remove organic waste from landfill and develop sustainable, productive uses for it.

Health Award: • Monash Health - Cleaning without chemicals in Healthcare

A large Melbourne health service transforms its environmental cleaning practices by cleaning without chemicals across all of its sites.

Innovative Products or Services Award: • Living Fundraisers - Closet Cleanout

An initiative that helps schools and organisations raise money through ethical fundraising and ships unwanted clothes and goods to developing countries.

Small and Medium Enterprises Award: • Yarra Valley Estate - Yarra Valley Estate

Conference, wedding and accommodation centre conducts certified sustainability programs spanning energy, water, waste and community development.

For photographs from the Awards dinner and more information on the winners, visit www.sustainabilityawards.vic.gov.au. Media contact - Cath Newell on 0423 587 478

http://www.sustainabilityawards.vic.gov.au/�

Media Release Monday, 5 October 2015 Melbourne’s current inability to provide adequate social housing options will be in the spotlight at this week’s Future of Inner City Social Housing forum: Options for Local Government. Held on the eve of World Homelessness Day, the forum is sponsored by Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMAP), a collaborative partnership between the Cities of Yarra, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Port Phillip and Stonnington. Hosted by the City of Yarra, the forum will explore the current housing market, policy environment and the opportunities and barriers to the generation of more social and affordable housing. Speaking on behalf of the five municipalities, Yarra Mayor Phillip Vlahogiannis said: “Melbourne currently has 55,000 social housing dwellings which is nowhere near enough to accommodate our growing population. “Having a stable and affordable place to live is fundamental to being able to function as a contributing member of society. Addressing this need in turn helps to address many other problems, particularly for people who find themselves in challenging economic circumstances. This is in everyone’s interests.” Well-credentialed key-note speakers will drive robust conversation at the forum, with ABC journalist and The Drum presenter, Steve Cannane, as emcee. The premiere of short film, The Future of Social Housing in the Inner City will also be screened. - ENDS - What: The Future of Inner City Social Housing: Options for Local Government When: Friday, 9 October 2015, 9.30am-1pm Where: Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy For more information: Marilyn Miller, Unit Manager, Advocacy, Engagement & Media Relations, on 9205 5122 or 0409 267 439 or email: [email protected]

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IMAP Progress

Rep or t Novem b er 2015

The Inner Melbourne Act ion Plan (IMAP) identifies 57 actions within 11 regional strategies t o

help b uild t he inner Melbourne region t o em body creat ivit y, liveab ilit y,

p rosp er it y and sust ainab ilit y across a range of diverse neighbourhoods.

The following Actions have been COMPLETED:

Action 1.1 Inner Melbourne Statement of Significance

Action 2.2 Co-ordinated pedestrian and public transport Signage – Wayfinding signs

Action 2.3 Bicycle Network Legibility – Priority Bicycle Network Report

Action 2.4 Walking links and pedestrian priority areas - Greenlight project

Action 3.3 Regional Parking Management - Report on Parking; Car sharing

Action 3.5 Reduced through traffic – Development of a Through Traffic model

Action 5.2 Affordable Housing - Needs Website (May 08); planning overlay, Australian CLT Manual

Action 5.3 Integrating Public Housing Estates – Collaborative framework report

Action 6.3 Activity Centres - Cumulative Impact Assessment tools; Local planning amendments

Action 7.4 Regional Economic Development - Statement

Action 7.7 Universities and Regional Development – Student placement processes, publication

Action 9.1 Regional Sustainability Targets – Audit of IMAP Councils

Action 9.2 Environmental Sustainable Design (Part) – design of 15 Sustainable Design Factsheets

Action 9.3 Water Sensitive Urban Design - Model Guidelines and Local Planning Amendment approvals

Action 9.4 Green Demonstration projects (Part) - Water Sensitive Cities Report

Action 9.4 Green Demonstration Projects (Part) – Growing Green Guide – green walls, roofs & facades

Action 9.4 Green Demonstration projects (Part) – Distributed Energy mapping

Action 9.6 Use of Recycled Water in Open Space – Technical Notes

Action 11.1 Inner Melbourne Map – Inner Melbourne Visitor Map (extended to Footscray), Volunteer Famils, Skybus videos

Action 11.2 Regional Tourism Program – Research & Itineraries, Conference sponsorship

Other Achievem ent s

The Growing Green Guide (Action 9.4) has:

Won the education category of the 2015 Premier’s Sustainability Awards, and was a finalist in the

Government category; and


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Won the ‘research and communication” category in the Victorian branch of the Australian Institute of

Landscape Architects (AILA) awards, in November 2014.

University of Western Sydney 2013 Partnership Award – for the Australian Community Land Trust (CLT) Manual

Merit Award for Regional Action in Water Sensitive Urban Design at the Stormwater Victoria Awards

IMAP Bicycle Network - Presentation at the Bike Futures 2009 Conference

Presentation to Planning Students at Melbourne University 2009 & 2010

Governance

Annual Reports

Goods & Services Procurement Policy and MoU

Governance & Relationships Report

IMAP Plan Review 2010; Financial Review 2010

Memorandum of Understanding – Intellectual Property

IP Licence Agreements – ESD Factsheets, IMAP Regional Tourism Map Communications

IMAP Geographic Information System (GIS)

IMAP Website and GrowingGreenGuide.org website

National Conference presentations (2009, 2011 & 2012)

Club IMAP

Council Briefings Advocacy

Ministerial Briefings – Ministers Wynne, Madden, Kosky, Plibersek, Powell

IMAP acknowledgements:

State Government’s Cycling Strategy

Interdepartmental Committee (Department of Justice)

Melbourne Water (WSUD)

Department of Transport Wayfinding Signs Guide

Department of Transport and VicRoads – Greenlight Project ______________________________________________________________________________________

Action 1.4 Boulevards and Major Roads - Preliminary work – ON HOLD

Action 2.2 Co-ordinated pedestrian and public transport signage system

IN PROGRESS - Initially completed in 2010, this project has been reactivated, focussed on visitor signage.

In December 2012, the IMAP Implementation Committee approved participation in the Melbourne Visitor Signage project and the coordinating committee was established to guide its work. The Committee seeks to:

Build common threads between roads, public transport, tourism, pedestrian, cycling and street directional signage systems across the inner Melbourne region.

Shared symbols and terminology will be applied across these key signage systems; and

Coordinated responses to signage requests by tourist attractions, precincts and major developments provided.

The Melbourne Visitor Signage coordinating committee comprises representatives of the five IMAP councils, City of Wyndham, Public Transport Victoria, VicRoads and Tourism Victoria.

The committee is to build a Master Style Guide setting out agreed signing principles, guidelines and language (the ‘business rules’) to be adopted by collaborating authorities. The guide will comprise two sections: Strategy and Implementation. The draft Strategy section was completed in June 2014 - drawing significantly on Legible London as an exemplar of a good wayfinding system and on its user-focused signing principles.

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In April 2015 Paul Street, the Program Manager of Transport for London’s Legible London wayfinding system visited for 12 days providing workshops on best practice examples, implementation processes and structures and a methodology for roll out of a comprehensive system.

Following the TfL visit, the committee structured its work into two streams:

1. Collaborative projects

Master Style Guide. The first draft of the guide will be completed by December 2015. The guide

will outline an agreed approach to content: signing principles, eligibility and selection criteria,

naming conventions, symbols and arrows, placement and location criteria, and ‘gateway’ signage.

Wayfinding signage redesign. IMAP councils and City of Wyndham will work together to design pedestrian wayfinding signs that are more visible; cheaper to produce, install and update; perform well environmentally; and carry a two-map system. PTV will participate in the design and prototyping process. On 21 September: a Signage Infrastructure Design Workshop looked at design issues of signs - functionality, legibility, accessibility and view from different distances. Prototype testing of a new design is underway at sites in Melbourne, Port Phillip and Wyndham over the next few weeks.

Pilot projects (North Melbourne, central city, Balaclava Station and Station Pier): an opportunity to link pedestrian and public transport signage systems, to explore shared signage infrastructure, and apply the content proposed in the draft style guide.

Evaluation: the pilot projects will test the new sign design, content and placement with users: to

understand their wayfinding needs and to build a robust evaluation framework.

2. Strategic approach

Using free, open data, the proposal is to build a single base map of metropolitan Melbourne for

use by councils for wayfinding signage and other purposes. The base map would comprise

agreed layers and design, would provide consistency of information for visitors and deliver cost

savings. The proposal is to form a sub-committee of GIS staff to create the base map - its

layers, data sources, language, operation and design.

Commission a business case on the benefits of improved wayfinding signage in Melbourne. A workshop run in June identified a number of potential benefits of improved, consistent wayfinding signage in Melbourne. Workshop participants propose meeting with the state government to discuss undertaking formal Investment Logic Mapping (ILM) to test the need for further wayfinding development.

Action 2.3 Bicycle Network Legibility

IN PROGRESS – Initially completed in 2008, this project has been reactivated.

In March 2013, the IMAP Implementation Committee agreed to review and update the Priority Bicycle Network Map; to coordinate bike lane development priorities and capital projects by the 5 IMAP Councils and VicRoads across the inner Melbourne region.

Work to date has included:

October 2013: An initial meeting of the Working Group to scope the project.

November 2013: a workshop held in conjunction with State Government representatives started the collation of data on Council cycling initiatives, current and planned.

February 2014: DTPLI presented to the IMAP Committee on integrating the state and local government work through a coordinated series of additional workshops to establish key cycling corridors.

Joint workshops were held between April-June 2015 and feedback sought from the State Government on funding.

4 May 2015: the State Government hosted a workshop on Priority Cycling Corridors.

The project team identified priority council cycling works for inclusion in the IMAP Review process.


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Action 2.5 Bicycle Network

IN PROGRESS - Implementation of Priority Routes

Focus is on the high bicycle usage routes or those routes which have the potential to carry significantly increased bicycle volumes. Further reporting on progress with targeted works awaits the outcome of Action 2.3

Action 3.2 Roads as Places - ON HOLD

Action 5.2 Affordable Housing

COMPLETED - Stage 1: Planning mechanisms

IN PROGRESS - Stage 2: Community Land Trust Research

COMPLETED – Phase 1

“Affordable Housing Development Models” prepared by Affordable Housing Solutions [AHS] was made available by the City of Port Phillip to the IMAP councils in March 2011 for consideration.

Research undertaken on Community Land Trust models and their application in Australia is published in The Australian CLT Manual (refer copies held online).

IMAP and the City of Port Phillip were awarded the University of Western Sydney 2013 Partnership Award for their involvement in this project.

IN PROGRESS – Phase 2

Key research questions of this phase relate to:

identifying and researching appropriate financial products for the establishment of CLTs in

Australia: The team will work with banks and other lending institutions to develop appropriate loan

products for residents looking to buy a leasehold or shared equity interest in CLT housing

perform in-depth case studies. This task will involve the completion of up to four in-depth case

studies in a range of locations and scenarios.

Progress to date:

February 2014: The Scope of Work for Phase 2 was reported to the IMAP Committee meeting and advice that funding raising had been successful

November 2014: the first meeting for Phase 2 was held to discuss the next stage.

March 2015: the UWS Partnership Agreement was finalised.

An update on the CLT work was provided to the Committee at their meeting in May 2015.

A World Homeless Day Symposium ‘Future of Inner City Social Housing’ was held by the City of Yarra on 9 November. The headline objective of the event was to explore the ways by which state and local government, as well as the private and non-government sector, can work together to increase the supply of social housing in inner Melbourne. There were around 90 people who attended from a cross-section of the community housing sector, state government, local government, and social housing advocacy groups.

A report on this event will be considered at the November meeting.

Action 5.4 and 5.5 Social Infrastructure and Services/Infrastructure Development

ON HOLD - Investigating the capacity of social services

CURRENT - Investigate recreation facilities and open space requirements


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Following work being undertaken by the Metropolitan Planning Authority and Sport and Recreation Victoria to plan for future requirements for open space, the Committee considered a proposal at the May 2015 meeting to investigate recreation facilities and open space requirements across the IMAP region, in response to future growth.

The detailed project brief was considered at the August meeting and a further report on funding implications will be discussed in November.

Action 6.3 Managing Conflict in Activity Centres

CURRENT

A submission to address the disparity between planning and liquor licensing Definitions in the legislation with the Department Environment Land Water and Planning (DELWP) has been proposed by the IMAP Implementation Committee. An initial meeting to discuss the approach to be taken was held on 5 February 2015.

Action 7.2 Support Creative Industries

ON HOLD - Creative Industries

An initial meeting in December 2012 scoped this project. An inventory of current programs being undertaken by the IMAP councils was prepared and considered in September 2013 which identified a number of “quick wins”. The City of Port Phillip’s research and the City of Melbourne Knowledge sector review have contributed to this work.

A definition of “Creative Industries” has been agreed and the need for an IMAP Creative Business policy identified. This work is now being undertaken by Creative Victoria.

CURRENT - Urban Manufacturing

In a separate initiative, representatives of the IMAP Councils and University of Melbourne are investigating urban manufacturing in the Inner Melbourne region.

The IMAP Committee considered the initial brief and recommendations at the November 2014 and February 2015 meetings to finalise the funds, timeframe and objectives for this project.

The following approach has been proposed for this project:

Phase 1 (7 months) – Existing Resources, Pilot Study, and Definition

Phase 2 (6 months) - Major survey and preliminary economic analysis.

Phase 3 (3-5 years) – Economic Impacts.

PHASE 1 - PROJECT UPDATE

A stakeholder workshop held on 28 May 2015 identified the need to broaden the project to include Moreland Council region and explore a technological method for conducting the survey.

The IMAP Implementation Committee approved the Agreement between IMAP and the University of Melbourne.

The project team confirmed the information required to examine a complete picture of all three approaches – land, sector, and economic; is currently not in existence for Victoria to provide key data for the analysis of economic development in small manufacturing sectors.

The Project Management Team and Steering Group agreed to approach Moreland Council for involvement in the project and a funding contribution; and to support the development of an online geographical mapping survey of makers across the IMAP area and surrounds to examine clusters, supply chains, customers and movement of makers over the life of the project.

An update to the Steering Committee on 11 June 2015 identified that the Project should move straight to an application for ARC Linkage Grant funding. As a result of the impending application Phase 1 & 2 were combined to complete the online survey and ensure sufficient evidence of the research is


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available to report back to the IMAP Implementation Committee for endorsement and continuation of the project, prior to any application for ARC Linkage Grant funding. The draft report for Phase 1 was considered by IMAP Committee in August.

A comprehensive draft report ‘The Dilemma of Urban Employment Land – An Inquiry into the viability of small urban manufacturing in Inner Melbourne’ outlines the findings from the analysis of existing data, inception workshop, and framing of the qualitative and quantitative studies that comprise the research. The report summarises the original project proposal and several strategic decisions modifying the scope and path of the research.

The ARC Linkage Grant Application has now been submitted. The Maker.Melbourne website is now live and is attracting entries from local businesses.

Action 8.1 Priority for Freight Movement - ON HOLD

Action 9.2 Environmentally Sustainable Design – commercial buildings

COMPLETED Stage 1

Work commenced in December 2010 to identify ESD topics to be written up in the form of Factsheets for publication.

The Factsheets pack was formally launched at the City of Melbourne on 11 May 2012 with the first 10 topics now available on Council and the IMAP websites. The Factsheets have been licensed for re-badging and use by 8 other Melbourne Councils

Topics include:

1.0 Indoor environment quality 2.0 Energy efficiency 3.0 Water efficiency 4.0 Stormwater management 5.0 Building materials 6.0 Transport 7.0 Waste management 8.0 Urban ecology 9.0 Innovation 10.0 Construction and building management

COMPLETED Stage 2

Additional topics recently completed include:

4.1 Site Permeability 2.1 Sunshading 8.1 Green roofs, walls and facades Melbourne’s Climate (including adaptation) ESD Tools

The Working Group reported in May 2014 that the 10 original fact sheets, designed to support the SDAPP framework, have since become reference documents for the six local governments who had adopted the proposed local planning scheme amendment for ESD.

In August 2014 the working group investigated having CASBE oversee Council access to the Factsheets , to uphold standards and improve consistency. This has not eventuated.

The working group is now finalising and updating all factsheets and preparing for a launch of the series early in 2016.. Approximately 20 Councils across Melbourne now use the factsheets under an IMAP licence.

Action 9.4 Green Demonstration Projects

CURRENT - Green Roofs Research Project - Australian Research Council Linkage Grant


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In 2013 the IMAP Implementation Committee partnered in an ARC Linkage Grant with the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Water for further research on the measurable impacts of green roofs: "Mimicking natural ecosystems to improve green roof performance”. The research project outcomes will provide:

Design, monitoring and management recommendations for Green Roofs, particularly in relation to stormwater quality and quantity, temperature (building energy efficiency) and improved biodiversity.

The research team are now well into their second year and have provided updates on progress to IMAP representatives.

Dr Nick Fisher, University of Melbourne updated the IMAP Committee on their research at the February 2015 meeting. Work continues to further promote green roofs, walls and facades since the completion of the IMAP Green Roofs project (Action 9.4).

COMPLETED - Distributed Energy Mapping –

The Distributed Energy project undertook an analysis of the potential for distributed energy in the IMAP area (district scale cogeneration, renewable and energy efficiencies) and developed a predictive model for managing and implementing commercially viable distributed energy systems in Melbourne.

Work has focussed on:

extracting relevant Council data for the CSIRO modelling

engaging the relevant utilities to participate and provide data.

meeting with representatives from CSIRO to finalise data access arrangements Progress has been as follows:

August 2013: The energy modelling was demonstrated at the IMAP Implementation

October 2013 and February 2014: Workshops helped identify how the information should be delivered to stakeholders and progress was reported to the IMAP Committee.

May 2014: CSIRO representatives met with the project team to determine final changes to the mapping projection scenarios. Information on the projected growth areas was then sourced to ensure the model allows for future changes predicted across the region.

August 2014: The (nearly) Final Report was provided to the IMAP Committee. Subsequently work has progressed developing a communications strategy and action plan, and arranging for the data models to be run on council computer systems to complete the project.

The Communications Plan and Action Plan were approved at the May 2015 meeting of the IMAP Committee and are currently being implemented.

Action 10.1 Regional Open Space and Trail Network - ON HOLD

Strategy 11 – Regional Tourism

ONGOING A 3 year strategy was adopted in May 2013 inclusive of a detailed Action Plan for the financial year. To date the working group has;

Renewed licensing of the IMAP map to tourism peak bodies.

Placed map and video material on the IMAP website for IMAP Councils to link with.

Evaluated the Skybus Campaign, completed in August 2013

Changed the IMAP map to include Footscray, Maribrynong

Undertaken joint research with DML to gauge feedback on the contents and presentation of the Official Visitor Guide and the IMAP tourist map.

Collated IMAP expenditure on the Tourist Map to evaluate alternatives to printing and distributing the map and options for distribution of the tourist maps.

The IMAP Map was included in the 15,000 AIDs conference delegate’s pack – the cover modified to include the cultural program link.


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In August 2014 the project team updated the Committee on the agreement reached with DML for printing and distribution of the IMAP map through the Official Visitors Map. The IMAP Map has now been included in the latest upgraded OVM publication. The August Committee meeting approved the Action Plan proposed for 2015-16. A further report on the proposal by Destination Melbourne to develop a destination marketing plan will be considered at the November meeting. IMAP Review CURRENT The development of a new Inner Melbourne Action Plan is underway.

In June 2014 consultants were appointed to write the plan. In July/ August staff and councillors workshops were held. During October, 5 half-day Reference Group workshops were facilitated under the topics:

Environmental Sustainability, Economy, Communities, Transport, and Neighbourhoods and Places December/January 2015: A first full draft of the plan was prepared and circulated for staff comment at

the 5 councils during March. July:/August: The document was redrafted for review by senior staff and the IMAP Executive. The

draft plan was presented to the IMAP Implementation Committee in August for consideration.

Council briefings on the plan are being held between 23 November and 8 December 2015. It is proposed that the plan be available for external comment in the New Year.

The IMAP projects continue to add value, deliver stronger relationships, practical solutions and strategic directions, and influence the liveability and sustainability

of the inner Melbourne region.


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Inner Melbourne Action Plan

Progress Report

IMAP Review – Draft Inner Melbourne Action Plan

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Purpose

1. To update the Committee on progress with the IMAP Review. Background

2. At the August Committee meeting the Committee resolved to:

a. Endorse the Draft Inner Melbourne Action Plan; and b. Recommend the five member Councils be briefed on the Draft Plan.

Council Briefings

3. Following review by the last IMAP Implementation Committee in August, work on the draft plan has included checking it for consistency and refining the draft outcome performance indicators.

The IMAP Councils’ briefing dates are arranged as follows:

a. City of Stonnington - 23 November

b. City of Yarra - 30 November

c. City of Melbourne – 1 December

d. Maribyrnong City Council - 1 December

e. City of Port Phillip - 8 December

4. One briefing will have been held prior to the November Committee meeting.

Development of performance indicators

5. Further refinement of the plan’s performance indicators have been undertaken with a view of adopting

measures which relate to the Outcomes. The first set of draft indicators which the Committee saw in

August was written with regard to the Strategies. These were too detailed to monitor progress on the

overall plan.

6. A small number has been proposed in addition to the Liveability Indicators, emphasiing measures at a

community level; and where possible utilising existing monitoring. To develop these, consultation was

undertaken with the IMAP Review working group, council corporate performance monitoring staff from

Port Phillip, Melbourne and Stonnington, and members of the RMF Liveability Indicators project team.

Stonnington staff provided assistance to reduce and focus indicators to the following list:

i. Changes in activity in key sectors that contribute to Inner Melbourne’s GDP. Sources: IMAP Council Annual Reports – business number reporting based on the Local Government Performance Reporting Framework; CLUE – currently Melbourne only; State Government sources

ii. Changes in accessibility and mode choices.

Sources: Bicycle Network Super Tuesday data; Other sources TBD

iii. Usage of community facilities across the region.


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Sources: IMAP Council Annual Reports –utilisation and participation reporting based on the Local Government Performance Reporting Framework

iv. Perceptions of safety

Source: Annual Local Government Community Survey

v. Housing choices. Source: RMF Liveability indicators

vi. Monitoring impacts of growth

e.g. changes in the public realm (canopy cover, design standards); open space per capita; urban heat island effects Sources: Measures to be determined

vii. Changes in potable water consumption viii. Storm water reduction/quality ix. Changes in greenhouse gas emissions

Sources: IMAP Council Annual Reports

Next steps

7. The timeline is as follows:

a. November/ December – Council briefings

b. January.February 2016 - External consultation

c. March – Amendments to the draft plan

d. April/ May - Seek Councils’ approval

8. Formal approval from all partner councils is required before it can been returned to the IMAP

Implementation Committee for implementation.

Recommendation

9. That the IMAP Implementation Committee resolves to note the current work being undertaken to finalise the draft inner Melbourne Action Plan 2015-25.



Briefing Report

Strategy 11: Promote the inner Melbourne region as a tourism destination

Destination Management Plan – Additional Report

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Purpose

1. To provide a further report to the IMAP Implementation Committee on Destination Melbourne Ltd’s request for funds to develop a Destination Management Plan for Melbourne.

Background

2. Destination Melbourne Ltd (DML) presented a proposal to develop a Destination Management Plan (DMP) for Melbourne to the 28 August meeting of the IMAP Implementation committee. The DMP would be used to steer future investment opportunities, product development, industry development and marketing. It is proposed to be released by June 2017.

3. Amongst other things, DML proposed the following funding formula:

• City of Melbourne - $20,000.

• Other IMAP and other councils that benefit significantly from the visitor economy - $10,000 each.

• Councils that receive a smaller benefit from the visitor economy - $8,000 each.

4. The IMAP Implementation Committee requested additional information before deciding their response to DML’s request. In particular, the committee sought information about the role of Visit Victoria, the recently announced entity, and its responsibility for marketing Melbourne and Victoria.

Discussion

Destination Management Plan and Strategy

5. The IMAP Tourism Working Group (TWG) supports DML’s proposal, conditional upon at least five other (non-IMAP) Melbourne councils also agreeing to support this initiative financially.

6. The IMAP TWG budgeted $50,000 in the draft 2016-17 budget to cover the cost of participation by all IMAP members in the plan’s development. This funding comes from the carry forward in this account and does not require any additional funding from four of the five IMAP councils.

City of Melbourne would contribute an additional $10,000 to the initiative from the Business and Tourism Melbourne branch’s budget.

The IMAP TWG would need to be satisfied, however, that whomever DML contracts to carry-out the work is suitable and capable of developing the plan. Ideally, an IMAP TWG representative would be included on the selection panel.

7. The development of the Melbourne Destination Management Plan would need to consider all current sub-region Destination Management Plans and participating Council Tourism Strategies.

8. The IMAP TWG’s funding is also contingent upon Tourism Victoria / Visit Victoria providing an appropriate level of matched funds. In a letter to the CEO of Destination Melbourne (refer Attachment 8a), the CEO of Tourism Victoria provides in principle support for the project, subject to DML securing support from a majority of metropolitan Melbourne councils and local tourism bodies, including those covered by IMAP. The CEO further advises that the level of funding Tourism Victoria is prepared to commit would be commensurate with that provided by the councils.

9. This letter serves to clarify Visit Victoria’s position and its support for DML. The Committee can be satisfied that the Destination Management Plan has the support required at the state level to proceed.

Local Government Visitor Support Program

10. In addition to the Destination Management Plan, DML’s CEO proposed the development of a three year Local Government Visitor Support Program – developing bespoke industry development


programs for key council areas to elevate the vistor experience and journey. Recent correspondence from CEO Laura Cavello to staff at the City of Port Philllip has advised that Destination Melbourne will no longer be pursuing this program at the current time. She advises they may revisit it in later years.

Meeting with the CEO Visit Victoria

11. Economic Development staff have advised that Visit Victoria is still in establishment mode with roles and functions still being determined. Some legislative changes are required for the restructure to be finalised.

12. Our advice is that a meeting of IMAP CEO’s with Nick Foa, CEO of Visit Victoria would be more useful in the new year.

13. The IMAP Executive Officer proposes arranging a meeting date in February, prior to the next IMAP meeting.

Recommendation

14. That the IMAP Implementation Committee agrees to provide $50,000 towards the development of a Destination Management Plan by Destination Melbourne Ltd in 2016-17 from the existing IMAP Tourism fund; subject to

a. at least five other (non-IMAP) Melbourne councils also agreeing to support this initiative financially

b. City of Melbourne confirming an additional $10,000 to the initiative from the Business and Tourism Melbourne branch’s budget

c. Consideration by DML of an IMAP TWG representative being included on the consultant selection panel

d. The Melbourne Destination Management Plan Brief requiring consideration of all current sub-region Destination Management Plans and participating Council Tourism Strategies

e. IMAP’s Tourism Working Group being satisfied that Tourism Victoria / Visit Victoria is providing an appropriate level of matched funds.


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Briefing Paper

Action 5.5 Infrastructure Development ____________________________________________________________________________________

Purpose

To inform the IMAP Implementation Committee on the progress of the proposed approach to a joint regional planning study for the provision of open space to cater for active and passive recreation to accommodate current and projected future demands. BACKGROUND

1. In August 2015, the City of Melbourne, on behalf of the IMAP councils, presented updated information to the IMAP Implementation Committee regarding a joint planning study for the provision of active and passive recreation spaces to accommodate current and projected future demands.

2. As recommended at the August 2015 meeting: a final draft was agreed by all IMAP councils, with further input from Sport and Recreation Victoria (SRV) and the Melbourne Planning Authority. Request for quotation documentation from the City of Melbourne was provided to four consultants, recommended by the IMAP Councils and SRV, for their consideration on Friday 30 October 2015. The closing date for submission of quotes is Friday 20 November 2015.

3. An application was submitted to the 2016/17 Community Sports Infrastructure Fund (State Government)

for the Planning category, seeking the maximum amount of $50,000. The outcomes of the submission are expected to be announced from March 2016 onwards.

DISCUSSION

4. At the time of writing three of the four consultants have advised, for a variety of reasons, that they will not be submitting a quotation for this project and it is a distinct possibility that there will only be one quote received.

5. If a quote is received, it will need to be assessed against the relevant procurement guidelines in relation to cost, and if the cost exceeds $150,000, a new procurement process will be required. If the cost is less than $150,000, the quote can be assessed in accordance with the project evaluation criteria and could be accepted by the City of Melbourne if the parties agree it is deemed to be of sufficient quality to meet the project needs.

6. The City of Melbourne is not obligated to accept any proposal received, and after the request for documentation expiry date, it may be prudent for the parties to convene to consider the best way forward for this project.

RECOMMENDATION

7. That the IMAP Implementation Committee notes: (a) That the actions resolved at the August 2015 meeting have been achieved; (b) The information in this paper; and (c) That a further verbal report will be delivered at 27 November 2015 meeting as a result of the

request for quotation deadline of 20 November 2015.

8. That this information is presented to the November 2015 committee meeting.


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Progress Report

IMAP Three Year Implementation Plan

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1. PURPOSE

The purpose of this report is to advise the IMAP Implementation Committee on the update of the Three Year Implementation Plan for the Inner Melbourne Action Plan and the implication for budgets in 2016-17.

2. BACKGROUND

The 11 strategies in the current plan identify regional priorities in the areas of: • Transport and connectedness • Environmental sustainability • Housing affordability • Regional development The current program of work and funding focuses on projects in these priority areas. This report updates the Committee on the status of the current IMAP projects and the overall funding position. The Review of the Inner Melbourne Action Plan, currently in progress, will impact on the Three Year Implementation Plan only once it has been adopted. However it is worth noting that there are a number of ongoing projects which will remain priorities under the new plan. Therefore, while this report is based on a ‘business as usual’ approach, it also reflects a transition to the new plan.

3. GOVERNANCE AND FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS

The Inner Melbourne Action Plan contains 11 Strategies and 56 Actions. Approved in 2006, it is now in its 10th

year of the implementation program.

IMAP is a unique partnership between the inner city Councils, with five Section 86 Special Committees meeting as one, bound by identical Council Delegations and Terms of Reference; and with formal MoUs in place for Procurement protocols and joint Intellectual Property matters. Its primary function is to oversee the implementation of Actions through cross council teams and associated partners.

The IMAP area represents the high growth, high density areas of the city and includes the greatest concentration of commercial buildings in the metropolitan area. The Committee included the City of Maribyrnong as a full Member in July 2013 due to its potential for development, increased growth and high density on the western boundary of the IMAP area.

With the inclusion of Maribyrnong and the publication of the State Government’s Plan Melbourne, the IMAP Implementation Committee resolved in February 2014 to review the Inner Melbourne Action Plan.



4. CURRENT OVERALL PROGRESS IMPLEMENTING IMAP

28 Actions (43%) have been completed (20) or closed (8).

1.1 Heritage statement of significance Completed 2.2 Wayfinding signage (Phase 1) Completed 2.3 Bicycle network legibility (Phase 1) Completed 2.4 Pedestrian priority areas - Greenlight project Completed 3.1 Commuter car use Closed 3.3 Regional parking management Completed 3.4 40% by 2020 Closed 3.5 Reduced through traffic (Part 1) Completed 4.1 Travel Smart Closed 4.6 Public transport pricing Closed 5.2 Affordable housing: (Part 1) Completed 5.3 Integrating public housing Completed 6.3 Managing conflicts in Activity Centres Completed 7.1 Government industry links Closed 7.3 Improved information Closed 7.4 Regional economic development statement Completed 7.5 Wireless broadband Closed 7.6 Exporting health services Closed 7.7 Universities & regional development (WIL) Completed 9.1 Regional sustainability targets Completed 9.2 Environmental sustainable design (Factsheets)

Completed - finalising

9.3 Water sensitive urban design Completed 9.4 Green demo projects: Water Sensitive Cities Completed 9.4 Green demo projects: Growing Green Guide Completed 9.4 Green demo projects: Distributed Energy Completed - finalising 9.6 Recycled water for open space Completed 11.1 Inner Melbourne map (Part 1) Completed 11.2 Regional tourism programme (Part 1) Completed

16 Actions (25%) have not been programmed in the current plan.

1.2 Public realm infrastructure standards 1.3 Built form controls 1.5 Key urban squares 2.1 Regional physical infrastructure

4.2 Street design standards 6.1 Activity centre local policy 6.2 Activity centre public environment 6.4 New cultural facilities 6.5 Activity centre services 8.2 Improved links to the port 9.5 Community capacity for sustainability 10.2 Physical infrastructure needs 10.4 Riparian open space project 10.5 Wild life links 10.6 Foreshore open space 10.7 Waterways planning & management



6 Actions (9%) proceed through ongoing advocacy by the IMAP Councils either jointly or on an individual basis.

2.6 Tram & Rail network Ongoing advocacy 4.3 Think Tram Ongoing advocacy 4.4 Enhanced bus priority Ongoing advocacy 4.5 Improved public transport infrastructure Ongoing advocacy 4.7 Improvements to public transport services Ongoing advocacy 5.1 Regional housing statement Ongoing advocacy

15 Actions (23%) are current or programmed. 5 of these Actions (7%) have been completed but have been reactivated into a second stage.

1.4 Boulevards & major roads Funded Not started 2.2 Wayfinding signage (Phase 2) Completed Ongoing 2.3 Bicycle network legibility (Phase 2) Completed Ongoing 2.5 Bicycle network Current 3.2 Roads as Places Funded Not started 3.5 Reduced through traffic (Part 2) Funded Not started 5.2 Affordable housing: (Part 2 CLTs) Completed Ongoing 5.4 Social infrastructure & services Funded Not started 5.5 Infrastructure development Funded Not started 7.2 Support creative businesses : Urban Makers Current 8.1 Priority for freight movement Funded Not started 10.1 Regional open space & trail network Current 10.3 Open space links Current 11.1 Inner Melbourne map (Phase 2) Completed Ongoing 11.2 Regional tourism programme (Phase 2) Completed Ongoing

Several Actions have also involved several parts or phases, bringing the total number of projects under the 56 Actions to 65 in total. SUMMARY

Completed / Closed 43% 28 projects

21 projects

75% of IMAP activated

(49 projects) Current / Advocacy 32%

Not Programmed 25% 16 projects 25% inactive

Some of these projects have indicative budgets. The funds are able to be held in the trust fund until the projects draw down the expenditure. There is generally a lag before the expenditure is incurred. The account arrangements enable all unexpended funds to be carried forward until the project commences. Tourism projects are funded separately from the other project items and maintain a running balance.

5. THREE YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

The Draft Three Year Implementation Plan for the period 2016-17 through until 2018-19 has been prepared on the basis that: • Current approved projects will continue to proceed until such time as a new plan and new

agreed projects are in place. • Any new funding requirements will be addressed at such time as the project has been

approved through adjustment in timing of other projects.

The status of the current IMAP projects are summarised below and changes noted in bold:



Action 1.4 Boulevards and Major Roads Lead Council City of Yarra Total IMAP Project Budget $40,000 – not spent. Status Deferred until 2017-18

Action 2.2 Wayfinding Signage – Part 2 Master Style Guide Lead Council City of Melbourne Total IMAP Project Budget $120,000 over 2 years - $54,560 spent to date. Balance $65,440. Status Meeting regularly and progressing well. Action 2.3 Bicycle network legibility Lead Council City of Yarra Total IMAP Project Budget Nil, staff time only. Status Project team established. First meeting 27 November 2013. Work

with the State Govt on priority routes. Action 2.5 Bicycle network Lead Council City of Melbourne Total IMAP Project Budget Nil, staff time only (Individual Council capital budgets) Status About 75% of projects completed. Remaining projects lack funding

or commitment. Await development of new priorities under Action 2.3.

Action 3.2 Roads as Places Lead Council City of Melbourne Total IMAP Project Budget $40,000 – not spent Status: Brief approved. Not started. Project may need to be reconsidered.

Timing delayed to 2017-18.

Action 3.5 Reduced through traffic - Part 2 Sustainable parking policies) Lead Council City of Stonnington and City of Melbourne Total IMAP Project Budget: $100,000 over 2 years: 2015-16 and 2016-17 Status: Parking project may need to be reconsidered via IMAP Review.

Action 5.2 Affordable housing - Part 2 of the CLT project Lead Council City of Port Phillip Total IMAP Project Budget $10,000 CLT project – spent in 2014-15

$5,000 Housing forum - spent in 2015-16 Status: Stage 2 will investigate the development of financial packages to

support CLTs. Project commenced November 2014. Action 5.4 Social infrastructure & services and

Action 5.5 Infrastructure developments Lead Council City of Yarra Total IMAP Project Budget: $40,000 – not spent Status: Project deferred awaiting IMAP Review. Funding could be made

available for the Recreation Facility review proposal. Provision

for additional funding shown below line. Action 7.2 Support creative businesses (1) Creative Business (2) Urban manufacturing Lead Council City of Stonnington & City of Port Phillip Total IMAP Project Budget: (1) $10,000 for initial work– $3.8K spent, $5K to Housing Forum

(2)$90K budget over 2 years - $20K spent to date Status: (1) Initial work undertaken to identify priorities.

(2) Urban Manufacturing project underway. Matched funds with Carlton Connect for stage 1. ARC Linkage grant application sought.



Action 8.1 Priority for freight movement Lead Council Maribyrnong City Council Total IMAP Project Budget $87,500 – not spent Status: Brief for this project prepared in 2011. Clarified November 2013.

Requires further assessment wrt State Government research undertaken.

Action 9.2 Environmental sustainable design - Factsheets Lead Council City of Port Phillip Total IMAP Project Budget (1) $55,000 budget for Factsheets - spent

(2) $10,000 for ESD Policy review – being spent on factsheets (3) $30,000 to identify ESD retrofit issues (2015/16) – not spent

Status: 15 factsheets completed. Fifteen councils outside the IMAP region licensing the full set.

Action 9.4 Green demonstration projects (1) Distributed Energy (2) Green Roof research Lead Council City of Melbourne Total IMAP Project Budget (1) $180,000 - $100,000 spent $80,000 payment held pending

completion of CSIRO modelling (2) $60,000,– 3 year budget- $40K spent

Status: Distributed Energy Project awaiting final completion. ARC grant project commenced in 2013-14 with the first 2 payments

made ($40,000). ARC Linkage grant partner with University of Melbourne & Melbourne Water.

Action 10.1 Regional open space & trail network and

Action 10.3 Open space links Lead Council City of Yarra Total IMAP Project Budget Nil, staff time only. Status: Work was undertaken to identify all open space land ownership in

the 4 IMAP Councils in 2011. This information is now available on the IMAP GIS. Project overtaken by MPA mapping.

Action 11.1 Inner Melbourne map and

Action 11.2 Regional tourism programme Lead Council City of Stonnington (Rotates) Total IMAP Project Budget $100,000 pa. Separate budget allocation by IMAP Councils. Status: Successful, innovative project team, shared workload and allocation

of tasks. Ongoing since 2006. Any budget surpluses are carried forward for this activity. Majority of the annual expenditure goes towards the Melbourne visitor map production and distribution – via Destination Melbourne. Allowance made in the budget for this to

continue.

IMAP Total IMAP Administration Budget

$7,000 pa General expenses including website $6,000 pa Annual Report $7,850 pa (+ 4% increase pa) IMAP GIS $45,000 Upgrade IMAP website $103,800 for the IMAP Review – $62,908 spent

Status The IMAP budget covers ongoing costs associated with the IMAP website, support for the IMAP GIS, production of the Annual Report, and administration expenses. Provision for the review of the Inner Melbourne Action Plan covers initial staffing, consultant costs, graphic design, consultation technology costs, printing.

Refer to Attachment 10a for the Draft Three Year Implementation Plan modelling



6. POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Approval of these projects annually as part of a rolling 3 year Implementation Plan is delegated to the Inner Melbourne Action Plan Implementation Committee by the IMAP partner Councils. The Terms of Reference requirement for the IMAP Implementation Committee is to: • “Make recommendations to the member Councils of budget allocations required to effect

the implementation of specific IMAP actions, to enable consideration in each Council’s annual budgeting process.

• Each member Council’s budget is expected to reflect necessary resources to deliver on commitments agreed in the Plan.

• The budget of each member Council would be specific to meeting the IMAP actions relevant to that respective municipality.

• The recommended budget allocation is to be based on the perceived benefits and / or capacity of each member Council.”

7. FINANCIAL AND RESOURCES IMPLICATIONS

The IMAP Implementation Committee is to assess funding requests for all existing and new projects for the next 3 years. The project funding for the implementation program of identified IMAP projects is derived from: • Accumulated funds in the IMAP account • The annual regional tourism contribution of $20,000 • The annual IMAP project contribution from the partner councils – currently $35,000 per

council in 2015-16 based on the current project load and timing. • Additional funding on a per project basis as required. To meet the costs of the implementation program, the IMAP Councils’ individual contributions for 2016-17 are proposed as follows: IMAP Annual Contribution $35,000 – per Council in line with the current year IMAP Annual Tourism Contribution $20,000 – per Council in line with the current years IMAP Share of Operational Costs $40,000 - per Council (Estimate, to be confirmed) (Total $95,000 per IMAP Council)

8. CONCLUSION

The projects are in line with the existing Strategies and Actions contained in the Inner Melbourne Action Plan and are largely a continuation of the Three Year Implementation Plan approved by the Committee last year.

9. RECOMMENDATION


a. Note this update on progress on the Inner Melbourne Action Plan, and b. Approve the updated IMAP Three Year Implementation Plan, and any changes to the

current years budget c. Approve the request for each of the IMAP Partner Councils to make provision for

funding in the 2016-17 budget as follows:

IMAP Annual Contribution $35,000 – per Council in line with the current year IMAP Annual Tourism Contribution $20,000 – per Council in line with the current years IMAP Share of Operational Costs $40,000 - per Council (Estimate – to be

confirmed) (Total $95,000 per IMAP Council)

27 November 2015 Attachment 10a

IMAP Projects Budget - Three Year Implementation Plan - 5 IMAP Councils (excl GST)

Funding Model

REVENUE 2015-16 (Year 10)

2016-17 (Year 11)

2017-18 (Year 12)

2018-19 (Year 13)

Current

IMAP Councils Annual Contribution ($35K each) 175,000 175,000 175,000 175,000

IMAP Councils Annual Tourism Contribution ($20K each) 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000

IMAP Map licensing fees 700 700 700 700

Total Revenue 275,700 275,700 275,700 275,700

FUNDED PROJECTS 2015-16 (Year 10)

2016-17 (Year 11)

2017-18 (Year 12)

2018-19 (Year 13)

Ref. Action Status Notes Current

IMAP Website, Catering, Admin exps Ongoing Annual costs 7,000 8,000 8,000 8,000

IMAP Annual Report design/print Ongoing Annual costs 6,000 6,000 6,500 6,500

IMAP IMAP GIS support Ongoing Annual costs 7,600 7,850 8,000 8,250

IMAP IMAP Review Project CurrentFunding approved Feb 2015 (C/Fwd $24,873+ funding $15k )

39,873

IMAP Update website Current 45,000

2.2 Wayfinding signs CurrentVisitor Signs Master Style Guide (C/Fwd $45,440 +Wyndham contribution $20K)

65,440

5.2 Affordable Housing: Yarra forum Current Funds approved May 2015 5,000

Current Balance of funds provided for initial work 2,200

Current UM Project costs $300K: $90K from IMAP. Subject to matched funds CC/ARC Linkage. (Carry Fwd $20K)

40,000 50,000

Current Factsheets budget balance 329

CurrentESD Policies advocacy budget - for factsheets use (C/Fwd $10K - committed)

10,000

Green Roof initiatives (balance C/Fwd $207 - ongoing costs)

207

Unimelb ARC grant contribution Year 3 of 3 (Committed)

20,000

Nearly completed

Distributed Energy Map (CSIRO) -accrued

CurrentDML Map Agreement (Committed). (Year 3 2015/16 TBC) +CPI of 3%

47,741 49,173 50,648

ProposedDestination Management Plan (DML)- funded from Carry Fwd$50K-set aside for 2016-17 project

50,000

CurrentStrategy implementation ($52259+ balance C/Fwd $6723 current year)

58,983 50,827 49,352

2.4 Bike Network Legibility Current Identifying future priorities for capital works

Current 1. Capital Program - Bike Lanes

Not started 2. Measure & map Level of Service rating

10.1Regional Open Space & trail network

CurrentIdentify linkages and gaps in OS and trail network

On Hold 1. Establish joint view on Hoddle St

Not started 2. Boulevard Study 40,000

3.2 Roads as Places Not Started Brief prepared. Not started. Funds C/Fwd 40,000

3.5Reduced Through traffic: Part 2: Parking provisions which support sustainable transport

Not started

30,000 70,000

5.4Social Infrastructure and Services

20,000

5.5 Infrastructure Development 20,000

8.1Priority for freight movement: Freight Movement Strategic Plan

Not started 87,500

9.2ESD Commercial Buildings: Identify ESD retrofit issues

Not started . Funds C/Fwd 30,000

5.5Infrastructure Development: recreation facility research proposal

Proposed

Could utilise $40K in current year from 5.4 and 5.5 above. Assumes SRV funding of $50K [ For Consideration - Refer to Committee report]

110,000

Total Annual Budget 505,372 439,350 202,500

Net Surplus (Deficit) 229,672- 163,650- 73,200

Opening Balance of IMAP Account 433,066 203,394 39,744Closing Balance of IMAP Account 203,394 39,744 112,944 Please note that the funding calculation does not include Operational Costs of $40,000 per council in 2015-16.

On HoldLinked: Proposal to map growth areas & locate current services & identify funding requirements for future planning

PROPOSED

COMMITTED - NOT FUNDED

2.5 Bicycle Network:

COMMITTED - FUNDED - NOT STARTED

1.4Boulevards & Major Roads - Hoddle Street

COMMITTED - FUNDED

Environmentally Sustainable Design - commercial buildings: Develop ESD Factsheets

Green Demonstration ProjectsCurrent

Regional Tourism Strategy

7.2

9.2

9.4

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Support Creative Businesses: Urban Manufacturing


1 Report prepared by: Belinda Robson – Yarra City Council


Briefing Paper

Action 5.2 Affordable Housing

Report on World Homeless Day Symposium

‘Future of Inner City Social Housing’

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BACKGROUND

1. In June 2015, IMAP approved the expenditure of $5,000 for a symposium called ‘The Future of Inner

City Social Housing’ to be held on the 9 October at the Fitzroy Town Hall. This budget was envisaged to

be spent as follows: $2,000 for the MC, $2,000 for the creation of a film and $1,000 for an event

organiser. Given Yarra organised the event using existing resources, the extra $1,000 was used to off-

set the costs for the MC, Steve Cannane and the catering which was greater than expected due to high

number of registrations (130).

DISCUSSION

2. The event aimed to facilitate a public discussion about the role of Local Government in increasing

access to social and affordable housing. It included a discussion about the various mechanisms

available to IMAP Councils to augment the supply of social and affordable housing in their

municipalities. (Please find attached the draft program)

3. The event aimed to advocate for greater policy clarity and consistency between state and local

government. It also aimed to ‘sell’ the idea of social and affordable housing to developers as an

economic asset for an inner-city area and a good investment in the long-term sustainability of

Melbourne.

4. There were around 90 people who attended from a cross-section of the community housing sector, state

government, local government, and social housing advocacy groups.

5. The headline objective of the event was to explore the ways by which state and local government, as

well as the private and non-government sector, can work together to increase the supply of social

housing in inner Melbourne, through:

Generating discussion about effective mechanisms that could assist the state government and

IMAP councils to develop policies and programs that would increase the supply of social housing;

Building partnerships between government, developers, social support services and community

housing agencies; and

Raising the profile of what the community and private housing sector could achieve in improving

the delivery of social housing.



6. The forum was opened by Mayor of Yarra, Cr Philip Vlahogiannis. The film, ‘The Future of Social

Housing in the Inner City’, was premiered at the event and set the context for two panel discussions.

7. The first panel considered “what are the key critical issues for community housing providers in

collaborations with local government?” It had the following speakers:

Nicola Foxworthy: Program Director, Common Equity Housing Ltd;

Rob Leslie: Chief Executive Officer, Yarra Community Housing (late withdrawal);

Henry James: General Manager, Property Development and Asset Management, Housing

Choices Australia;

Gary Spivak: Housing Development Officer, City of Port Phillip;

Megan Davidson: General Manager Strategic Business, Port Phillip Housing Association; and

Jocelyn Bignold: Chief Executive Officer, McAuley Community Services for Women

8. This panel made the following points:

It is important for Councils to develop targets for perpetually affordable housing and creating a

clear definition for ‘affordable’;

Councils need to take risks and invest staff time to develop partnerships with developers;

There is wide concern about the service gaps for larger families and older people, especially

women;

Housing co-operatives are one way to increase community capacity in this area and need to be

supported;

Housing associations can act as ‘honest brokers’ that can help councils to get the balance right;

Mixed tenure models offer housing associations the capacity to cross-subsidise social housing

by offering a percentage of housing to people on medium to higher incomes;

There are serious challenges faced by associations to scale up their successes without

government subsidy; and

Inclusionary zoning was not yet possible apart from on council or state land. If it were more

widely introduced, there would be a need to be clear about the proportion to be set aside for

social and affordable housing before developer buys the land. This would also need to be part

of Council’s MSS.

9. The second panel considered ‘How can local and state government policies effectively increase

the supply of social housing?’ This panel had the following speakers:

Fiona Williams, Director, Property & Asset Services, Department of Health and Human

Services;

Steven Lynch, Manager, Corporate Affairs, Bank Australia;

Professor Carolyn Whitzman, Professor in Urban Planning, University of Melbourne;

Rob Pradolin, General Manager, New Business, Fraser’s Property Australia;



Matthew Torney, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Urban Communities Limited; and

Jane Monk, Director, Inner City, Metropolitan Planning Authority

10. This panel made the following points:

Victoria has 75,000 units of public housing and 10,000 of these are managed by the community

housing sector, the rest by government. Only 370 new units have been built this year so the

sector is not growing quickly;

There is a lack of long term, integrated government strategy in this area including targets and

policies on how to achieve them;

It was noted that over the next 40 years, the number of dwellings in Melbourne will need to

double to accommodate projected population growth – a rate double that of the preceding 40

years;

It is important to approach the issues of social housing as one of key public infrastructure and

accept that it requires government subsidy for the private sector to deliver;

Housing for key workers (e.g. nurses, police,fire fighters) was needed in the inner city as they

perform life-saving tasks;

It is worth looking at the US model where the private sector has specialised in delivering social

housing by selling tax credits for cash;

In Australia, the private sector is keen to invest but it needs to make economic sense. Super

funds are the most obvious and logical source of capital with property developers the best

placed to take on projects and manage risk. Super funds could also take on asset

management and renewal;

There is a need to leverage current sites in prime locations (e.g. near jobs, transport and

services) for social housing, and this could involve density bonuses on sites; and, in doing this,

broader benefits would need to be evident for the wider community;

Community housing associations and affordable housing developers (such as Urban

Communities) report positive experiences of working with local government as they have

proven to be good partners in delivering novel and effective solutions. Such experiences

become the case studies that can be scaled up and out in large scale developments

undertaken by private and non-profit corporations and commonwealth and state governments;

Local government also has a critical role in developing the ‘liveability’ principles to underpin

successful developments. Local government can champion the needs of its local community,

raise community awareness of the needs of low income households and the value of diversity

socially and economically and persuade other levels of government to act;

The financial risks of social housing projects have been commonly over-estimated, with 6

percent return on investment commonly achieved. Community housing associations have



proven to be competent property managers, with low rates of tenants in arrears and low

vacancies rates;

Councils need to make the most of the opportunity to input into the Plan Melbourne refresh;

The question of mandated housing targets was raised from the floor and whether these should

be set by State or local governments? The second panel advocated for target sets by the state

with incentives for those areas for which targets are achieved;

The use of rental controls in Melbourne (e.g. like San Francisco and elsewhere) was

considered impractical due to the lack of low-cost rental accommodation available in the inner

city; and

There is a need to reframe social housing as an ‘us’ problem (i.e. one that the majority can

relate to) rather than a ‘them’ problem, in the same way that the acceptability of public transport

has been reframed. This “reframing” could also be associated with supporting low-to-middle

income families by enabling parents to spend more time with their children by living closer to

employment (and less time commuting).

11. IMAP is in a strong position to have input into the Plan Melbourne re-fresh which is giving particular

consideration to the matter of affordable and social housing. The Plan Melbourne Discussion Paper was

released after this event so the discussion at the symposium did not refer to the specific issues it covers.

The Plan Melbourne Refresh Discussion Paper offers a number of options to facilitate the development

of social and affordable housing; these are:

(a) Affirming that the Minister for Planning should be the responsible authority for social planning

housing applications recommended by the Director of Housing;

(b) Introducing expedited planning approval processes for selected housing projects, including

modified third-party appeal rights;

(c) Introducing planning tools that mandate or facilitate or provide incentives to increase social and

affordable housing supply;

(d) Evaluating the pilot affordable housing initiative on land sold by government to determine

whether to extend this to other suitable land sold by government; and

(e) Identifying planning scheme requirements that could be waived or reduced without compromising

the amenity of social and affordable housing or neighbouring properties.

12. RECOMMENDATION

That the IMAP Implementation Committee notes this report.

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