Council’s Financial Plan for 2025-35 will provide a framework for our long term financial decision making over the next ten years.

Following extensive consultation with our community throughout 2024 and 2025, including community surveys, listening posts and a deliberative engagement panel. We have developed a draft Financial Plan that sets the strategic direction for Council to remain financially sustainable while funding the actions of our Council Plan, providing services and programs to meet our community’s high expectations and delivering long term projects for the future of Monash.

It is the final strategic document that has been prepared as part of Council’s Shape Your Monash project, after our Community Vision, Council Plan, Health and Wellbeing Plan, Asset Plan and Rating and Revenue Plan were endorsed by Council in June. You can read more about these plans and strategies below as well as the community engagement process that informed them.

Our community is now invited to provide feedback on our draft Financial Plan 2025-35 until Wednesday 24 September.

At its June 2025 meeting, Council adopted the Community Vision, Council Plan, Health and Wellbeing Plan, Asset Plan and Rating and Revenue Plan, which sets out the key objectives Council wishes to achieve.

These plans will impact all residents in Monash as they guide the day-to-day operations of Council and shape our longer-term decisions. This includes the types of services we provide to the community, where and what capital works we undertake, which facilities we prioritise our investment in, and how we can best support the health and wellbeing of the community and environment.

Consultation with our community is central to what we do at Monash. This can include asking locals what they want to see in an upgraded playground, working with residents to make sure Council projects are complementary to their neighbourhood, and asking people about the future use of our open space sites.

As an important part of Council’s planning, we asked you for your ideas, thoughts and aspirations to shape the future of Monash for the next four years and beyond. We then sought your feedback on the draft vision and plans.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide feedback online, at one of our listening posts, at our advisory committee meetings or through our deliberative panel.

You can find out more about this process and view the engagement summary, reports and deliberative panel recommendations below.