MAV President's Update
MAV President's Update - 1 August 2024
Dear friends and colleagues,
Welcome to my President’s Update, Our MAV.
At last week's meeting, the Board has established to five Advisory Panels to provide strategic advice and strengthen the leadership role that the MAV takes by also drawing upon advice from subject matter expertise, experience and broader networks.
These Advisory Panels will cover:
- Health & Wellbeing
- Climate Futures
- Future Gen
- Connected Places
- Intergenerational Infrastructure.
The membership of the Advisory Panel will include a broad range of members who are highly recognised in relevant professional fields and who have demonstrated experience and knowledge that would be in service of the local government sector.
As a Councillor, if you have a specific qualifications and expertise in any of these priority areas, Expressions of Interests are now open:
Click here to read more and express your interest
Applications will close on 12 August 2024.
Warm regards,
Cr David Clark
MAV President
In this issue
- MAV Annual Conference - registrations now open
- Audit & Risk Committee - Independent Chair/Member
- CHAMP and the path to net zero
- MAVlab, Innovation for the public good
- Parliamentary flood inquiry report handed down
MAV Annual Conference - registrations now open
DON'T MISS OUT!
The MAV Annual Conference & Dinner returns in 2024. The conference is on Thursday, 12 September 2024 and will be followed by our Gala Dinner where we will celebrate our MAV Service Awards.
This year's conference theme ‘Celebrating our work, reimagining the future, and creating optimism for what’s ahead’ will explore how the transformative power of forward-thinking, collaborative leadership within local government can build thriving, resilient and sustainable communities to create lasting and positive change.
We have a range of impressive speakers already locked in, including the Dattner Group's Fabian Dattner, author Jess Scully, Ben Hart and Tony Barry.
You won't want to miss this one!
Click here to check out more details and to register here, or click here to nominate a councillor for our Service Awards.
Audit & Risk Committee - Independent Chair/Member
The MAV invites applications from suitably qualified persons to join its Audit and Risk Committee as its Independent Chair/Member.
- Advisory role
- Initial appointment term of up to three-years
- Five meetings per annum.
The Audit and Risk Committee is an advisory committee reporting to the MAV Board. The Committee plays an important role in providing assurance and oversight of the organisation’s governance, financial, risk management, and internal control processes.
An Information Pack and Expression of Interest form can be downloaded here
For further information about this role, contact Anne-Maree Neal, Governance Advisor on 03 9667 5513 or email: amneal@mav.asn.au
CHAMP and the path to net zero
Having long led the way on action towards net zero and decarbonisation, local government's were thrilled when the Australian Government joined the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP).
The MAV is now looking to take a lead role in work to advocate for more collaboration between all three levels of government in this country on achieving net zero, and proper acknowledgement of the work being done in this space by councils.
Our campaign will work best alongside ALGA, given its national significance, and the Victorian Greenhouse Alliances, to ensure all the important work in this space that is already underway is highlighted.
We look forward to keeping you updated on this important work over the coming months.
MAVlab, Innovation for the public good
MAVlab is the Municipal Association of Victoria's new innovation lab. This new team will compliment our other functions like strategic foresight and partnerships, and sector development, and will support our organisation to successfully deliver our new strategic and annual plans.
MAVlab is a place where we explore and exchange ideas about new ways that councils can meet the needs of our communities - via well-defined projects and experiments. In a rapidly changing world, the old ways of working aren't always fit for purpose.
MAVlab will create opportunities to look at challenges from different angles, with alternative lenses and help to find interventions in unexpected places.
We have kicked off MAVlab to join us - with a call for council staff to nominate for the Innovation Associates Network.
We also have a series of events, projects and initiatives that will be announced soon. Please make sure to subscribe to our MAVlab updates to be involved - http://eepurl.com/iSAb4w
For more information on MAVlabs check out https://lnkd.in/g_mnZ3Q9
Parliamentary flood inquiry report handed down
It's pleasing to see the State Parliamentary inquiry into the 2022 floods taking heed of many of the MAV and councils' recommendations.
The views of councils have been taken seriously in key areas.
The report acknowledged the challenges faced by councils on levee management and referenced the MAV's calls to evolve the like-for-like infrastructure repair funding model towards betterment funding.