Council Efficiency & Innovation
- Improve Council's productivity by adopting new & high technology.
- Improve Council's communication with the community.
- Better budget spending transparency. Better explanation and presentation of the budget allocation through easy to understand reports.
During the 2016-2020 council term:
- Initiated one of the first Smart City portfolios in local government in Australia
- Adopted Wyndham's first-ever award-winning Smart City Strategy
- Smart City project WynLens won the 2017 National Award for Excellence in Local Government.
- Other Smart City projects, eg: IoT Network, Smart Parks, Smart Bins, Smart Car Parking, Smart Sports Field Planning, Monitoring & Management, Transport Data Analytics
- Citizen dashboards: Capital Works Dashboard, Tree Plant Dashboard, myWyndham Services Dashboard, Report an Issue Web App
- Started building a more efficient councillor request dashboard
- IT & ERP System Upgrade: $6m invested in the technology to improve productivity and to support our organisation to be flexible & responsible in times of uncertainty to ensure that services continue to be delivered uninterrupted in 2020/21 alone
- Lighting the West: To date, the Council has invested $8.4 million in this program, with the Federal Government contributing $1.5 million. Over the 2019/20 financial year, Council upgraded 1500 streetlights across the municipality. The program will see:
- Council reducing greenhouse gas output by 2,600 tonnes annually.
- Saving Council approximately $13 million over 20 years.
- Improving community safety
- First time Council officially supported GovHack event at Wyndham in 2017
- The first-ever Wynnovation started in 2018 and had the first-ever pitch competition in early 2020
- Started the Large Scale Solar project
- Motion adopted to improve land use around train stations
- Established Small Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fund
- Innovate to Excelerate Business Growth Program at Wyndham
Photo Gallery
2019 Supporting local sports clubs
2019 State government announced Hoppers Crossing Level crossing will be removed by 2022
2019 Chairing Smart City Portfolio committee meeting
2019 More investment, more local jobs
2019 Supporting Children and Young Family
2019 Truganina Dohertys Creek P-9 College start class
2019 Building Blocks Program is a great community development initiative started by council. Both Walter and myself participated in this great program.
2019 Discuss local community issues with local residents.
2018 Avalon Airport International Terminal completed
2018 Sanctuary Lakes Christmas Carols. Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers.
2018 Sanctuary Lakes Christmas Carols. Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers.
2018 Supporting local community event
2018 Speaking at Wyndham Tech School. I am a strong supporter for better education in the west.
2018 Supporting young entrepreneurs
2018, Wyndham chess tournaments
2018, Truganina East Integrated Learning Centre construction start
2018, Young Scientist of Wyndham Contest
2018, GovHack Wyndham
2018, Wyndham Learning Festival
2018, More investment, more local jobs
2018, Supporting Western United for a new A-League license
2018, Chairing Smart City Portfolio committee meeting
2018, Support Avalon to become Victoria's second International Airport.
2018, Williams Landing sports pavilion construction start
2017 Wyndham Learning City Portfolio Meeting
Dec 2017, it's great the state government announced the Growing Suburbs Fund. We still need more investment in infrastructure to catch up with the fast growing population.
Nov 2017, supporting small local businesses
Sep 2017, team Wyndham working hard on weekend.
Aug 2017, participate in community tree planting event.
July 2017, for the first time GovHack event was officially hosted by council.
