Your input and feedback earlier this year on our priorities for 2015/16 has helped shape this year's Draft Council Plan 2013-17 (Year 3) and Draft Budget 2015/16.

Take a look at the Draft Council Plan 2013-17 (Year 3) and Draft Budget 2015/16, and let us know your thoughts by completing the online submission or mailing a hard copy submission to the address below.

This year's Draft Budget proposes to spend $48.1 million in renewing and upgrading our existing assets, including:

• drains, roads, footpaths and laneways ($9.5 million)
• St Kilda Life Saving Club redevelopment ($2.2 million)
• Alma Park pavilion replacement ($1.7 million)
• Fitzroy Street streetscape improvements ($1.4 million)
• street tree improvements ($690,000)
• repair of Beacon Cove foreshore promenade ($915,000)
• public toilets ($600,000)
• ensuring the vibrancy of our local villages and places ($235,000).

We have also allocated funding to progress other key priorities such as:

• Palais Theatre repairs ($3.5 million)
• St Kilda Triangle design and detailed business case for investment ($700,000)
• Planning for growth in our municipality, including how we best manage the movement of people in a constrained transport network ($1.4 million).

For a summary of these and other initiatives download the 2015/16 Council Plan and Budget Drafts Summary.

Submissions can be made until Thursday 4 June 2015, and will be considered at a Council Meeting on 23 June 2015.

Hard copy submissions can be mailed to:

City of Port Phillip

Private Bag 3

PO St Kilda VIC 3182

If you have any questions about the Draft Budget 2015/16 or Draft Council Plan 2013-17 (Year 3) please contact Council via ASSIST on 03 9209 6777 or email assist@portphillip.vic.gov.au