Geelong Community Survey

07/11/2022

is - in a way - a new and bigger community survey, in which you can play an important role! More info on

“A Real Deal for Geelong” began in mid 2021. Organisations from the Union movement, faith communities and community groups are working together to create a fairer future for our community.Who is participating in a Real Deal for Geelong?The United Workers Union, Cloverdale Community Centre, Norla...

12/11/2021

is seeking feedback from the community on where investment could be directed to continue to deliver on the city's Clever and Creative Vision and the Community Plan.

Learn more and have your say on Council initiatives for consideration in its 2022-23 Budget: yoursay.geelongaustralia.com.au/initiativesforbudget

Council is seeking feedback from the community on where investment could be directed to continue to deliver on our Clever and Creative Vision and Our Community Plan.

08/10/2020

Still worth logging in to hear the Bellarine candidates addressing your key questions. Hopefully they will be recorded to catch up on them.

It's a BIG one today! Join us from 12pm for our Geelong Council Election Candidates Forums for the Torquay and Bellarine wards.
Last-minute questions? Shoot us a message!
Torquay Facebook Live Stream - 12pm:
https://www.facebook.com/mitchellsfrontpage/posts/2752165178376456
Torquay YouTube Live Stream- 12pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OGgBdq71Cw
Bellarine Facebook Live Stream - 1.30pm: https://www.facebook.com/mitchellsfrontpage/posts/2753157478277226
Bellarine YouTube Live Stream - 1.30pm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMsfA9NV1E

06/10/2020

The Candidate Survey results are in!

After many hours of work by our team of volunteers we have synthesized the results from the Council election candidates who kindly responded to our survey.

We’ve done our best to make this informative yet not too long so that you can make an informed decision about who to vote for.

See how the candidates reponded in your ward:

→ Brownbill Ward
https://geelongcommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Brownbill-Candidate-Survey-Responses.pdf

→ Kardinia Ward
https://geelongcommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Kardinia-Candidate-Survey-Responses.pdf

→ Bellarine Ward
https://geelongcommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bellarine-Candidate-Survey-Responses.pdf

→ Windermere Ward
https://geelongcommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Windermere-Candidate-Survey-Responses.pdf

At election time, there are so many scorecards and interest groups coming out to spoon feed you and tell you who to vote for. We hope our survey will empower you to make up your own mind.

Do the candidates share our community’s concerns?
We have asked the candidates key questions based on the priorities from the Geelong Community Survey to show whether they share our concerns and will take meaningful action to address them.

It’s encouraging that a vast majority of candidates are indicating they will act on these key issues.

Please take 10 minutes and honour the effort that has gone into this work and the candidates who have decided to step up and participate in the democratic process by taking the time to read the full candidates’ responses. You will get a much better picture of candidates by reading the full report than an abbreviated summary, (which we aim to release later this week.)

Make sure you enlarge the documents if you find the type too small to read, use the slide bar on the bottom right of your screen to do this.

Some things you may like to ask yourself as you read these responses :

Are they capable of making strategic decisions?
Are their concerns and values aligned with mine?
Are their priorities consistent across responses to show they truly understand an issue? Are they interested in improving communication with residents so that we understand better what Geelong Council is doing?
For those who have been Councillors before, were their actions when they were in office in line with their responses now?

Only you can answer that by researching the candidates properly before you vote.

It’s over to us now in our role as citizens. Our job does not stop once we have voted. We have many examples of what happens to democracies when their citizens are not engaged.

Let’s play our part by participating and then holding them to these positions if they are elected.

https://geelongcommunitysurvey.org/candidatesrespond

The Candidate Survey results are in! After many hours of work by our team of volunteers we have synthesized the results from the Council election candidates who kindly responded to our survey. We’v…

22/09/2020

Today we sent an email with a questionnaire to the 37 registered candidates in the Geelong wards.

Today we sent an email to the 37 registered candidates in the Geelong wards with the following request: CoGG Council Elections 2020 – Candidate Survey – Invitation Dear Geelong Council …

21/09/2020

Thanks to Bay FM for picking up on our survey results ! Lets make sure we ask candidates how they will address these issues if they are elected.

More than 550 locals from the City of Greater Geelong's four wards have responded to a community survey asking what they're expecting of the region's next leaders.

10/09/2020

The results are in.

83% of respondents are concerned or very concerned about climate change predictions for our region, and about the predicted impacts for our region − flooding due to sea-levels, reduced rainfall, increased risk of bushfire and extreme weather.

Just one in ten people (9%) feel that the City of Greater Geelong is addressing Climate Change effectively at the local level with 81% stating that the City of Greater Geelong should do more to help households, businesses and our region to reduce carbon emissions.

Around 7 out of 10 responders (72%) are concerned about the environment’s capacity to cope with current population growth and
67% of respondents don’t believe local services and infrastructure are coping with the population growth rate.

66% believe public transport needs improvements within and beyond Geelong and 78% feel that walking and cycling − active transport − needs to be improved around Geelong and the Bellarine.

"These issues of greatest community concern need addressing, as there is widespread dissatisfaction with progress and decisions being made by Council in these areas.

Council needs to find more opportunities to actively engage with all communities about the Clever and Creative Vision and effectively publicise progress to residents in the municipality with transparent and easily accessible information."

→ For more information, see:
https://geelongcommunitysurvey.org/report2020

22/08/2020

The survey closes at midnight this Saturday - over 550 people have completed it, which is significant

This clipping is from the 20 August 2020 issue of The Geelong Advertiser Digital Edition. To subscribe, visit geelongadvertiser.digitaleditions.com.au RESIDENTS, YOU CAN HAVE A SAY Geelong Advertis…

14/08/2020

Survey discloses community’s hopes for municipality’s next Council

With close to 400 responses so far, and with extensive comments being made, the Geelong Community Survey has had a strong kick-off. The survey closes on Saturday 22 August.

→ Take the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBL6F3Y

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• Survey will inform Council candidates about the community’s opinion

• Youth and northern suburbs are underrepresented so far

• Survey report expected to become an election hot topic

The survey results are already providing strong messages and valuable data for candidates running for the upcoming Council elections about the community’s priorities.

The questions and answers relate to the priorities of the Clever and Creative 30-year vision for Geelong Region, and they seek to measure the community’s level of satisfaction – or frustration – with the progress Council is making on the vision.

Ocean Grove and Bellarine residents stand out as the municipality’s “hot spot” engagement area so far, showing in numbers and comments their passion about Local Government issues.

“We need the community’s help to get more responses from the northern suburbs of Geelong, and from the youth,” said survey spokesperson and co-initiator Sanja Van Huet: “We really would like to hear their voices to ensure the survey is representative of the entire City of Greater Geelong residents. We can see that young people under the age of 35 have different views from older age groups on a range of issues thus far, but we need more responses from this age group to be sure this is significant.”

Broad endorsements
The survey has been endorsed by eight local organisations: ADAC, Australian Parents for Climate Action Geelong & Bellarine, Barwon Heads Association, Geelong Environment Council, Geelong Sustainability, Humans in Geelong, Ocean Grove Community Association, and Transition Streets Geelong.

“This general level of response is excellent given the impact of Covid-19 on our lives. It is much stronger than the responses Council receives to many of its ‘Have your Say’ community engagement processes. It shows the importance of community members engaging and encouraging their friends and neighbours to participate in our local democracy,” Sanja Van Huet said.

“Having your say and your voice heard is an important part of participating in democracy. I hope more people from across Geelong will have their say, especially young people and people living in the northern suburbs of Geelong.”

Questions to Council election candidates
The results of the survey will be summarised and shared with all respondents and candidates running for City of Greater Geelong elections in October.

“We hope the information will help the next councillors to understand and represent community views on issues, and that candidates will be scrutinised according to their responses to the issues identified by this survey,” Van Huet said.

• Four-minute video interview
See video interview with Sanja Van Huet on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxiIEaJaXEw

• Download survey map in high resolution
www.geelongcommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GeelongCommunitySurvey-Responses-by-postcode.pdf

• Deadline for taking the survey
The Geelong Community Survey closes on Saturday 22 August at midnight

• Further info and background
www.geelongcommunitysurvey.org

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Tell us what matters to you → Take the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBL6F3Y

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30/07/2020

After the first week: 220 survey responses thus far..and over 100 extra comments

How about you? Tell us what matters to YOU!

→ Geelong Community Survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBL6F3Y

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A group of Geelong and Bellarine residents has created a short survey to hear your feedback about the progress of the City of Greater Geelong across a range of issues, especially in relation to Council's Clever and Creative Vision. The aim of the survey is to gather and present the community’s priorities and concerns to all candidates nominating for the upcoming Council elections in October.

Results of the survey will be shared with everyone who completes the survey and then, in October, a scorecard of all election candidates assessed against the community’s priorities as identified by the survey will be sent to you as well.

Please have your say. This is a great way for your views to be shared with current Councillors and election candidates to show them what the community wants them to focus on. And it will be an important means to help assess which candidates will act on the community's top priorities.

So far, five organisations have endorsed the survey. If you work with an organisation, you could suggest that it endorses and supports the survey by recommending it to employees and members in your next newsletter.

→ Just click this link to complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBL6F3Y

→ For further information about this survey go to www.geelongcommunitysurvey.org

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26/07/2020

The Victorian government has recently released a survey of residents across all council areas – and it makes interesting reading.

Among the most frequently mentioned issues or services that that the respondents think Council needs to improve upon are parking facilities and availability, population growth, communication and community consultation, and town planning / permits / red tape:

• Council rates lowest in the areas of parking facilities and population growth (both with an index score of 51).

• On population growth, Council rates significantly lower than the Regional Centres group average. Conversely, performance on parking facilities is in line with the Regional Centres group average.

• Population growth is rated among the most important service area by residents, yet it exhibits the greatest disparity between perceived importance and performance (differential of -30).

• Other lower rated service areas include some of the most influential ones impacting the overall performance rating: consultation and engagement (index score of 53), town planning policy (53) and lobbying (54).

• Perceived importance exceeds performance by 14 points or more in each of these areas. Efforts should be made to close these gaps and capitalise on the opportunities they present to shore up overall performance perceptions.

In line with the above themes, communication (10%), community consultation (8%) parking availability (6%), and town planning/permits/red tape (6%) are among the most frequently mentioned issues or services that that Council needs to improve upon.

The survey had 400 respondents.

See page 17 and 18 for City of Greater Geelong’s top performing areas and low performing areas:

https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/common/Public/Documents/8d8111b75c24e02-2020localgovernmentcommunitysatisfactionsurvey-greatergeelongcitycouncilreport.PDF

26/07/2020

Day 3: 100 survey responses thus far! ...and over 50 comments

How about you? Tell us what matters to YOU!

→ Geelong Community Survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBL6F3Y

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A group of Geelong and Bellarine residents has created a short survey to hear your feedback about the progress of the City of Greater Geelong across a range of issues, especially in relation to Council's Clever and Creative Vision. The aim of the survey is to gather and present the community’s priorities and concerns to all candidates nominating for the upcoming Council elections in October.

Results of the survey will be shared with everyone who completes the survey and then, in October, a scorecard of all election candidates assessed against the community’s priorities as identified by the survey will be sent to you as well.

Please have your say. This is a great way for your views to be shared with current Councillors and election candidates to show them what the community wants them to focus on. And it will be an important means to help assess which candidates will act on the community's top priorities.

So far, five organisations have endorsed the survey. If you work with an organisation, you could suggest that it endorses and supports the survey by recommending it to employees and members in your next newsletter.

→ Just click this link to complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBL6F3Y

→ For further information about this survey go to www.geelongcommunitysurvey.org

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