Community Forum 31 May 2007

The Community Forum 'A Sustainable Blue Mountains – How Are We Travelling?' invited key community stakeholders, external agencies and Council officers to ask how well we are travelling toward the community endorsed 25-year City Vision to which we originally committed ourselves. It has been five years since the Blue Mountains community worked together to create a 25-year Vision for all stakeholders for a more sustainable City, along with a Map for Action to guide its achievement. The Blue Mountains City Council hosted this exciting Community Forum which was successfully held on 31 May 2007 at the Mid Mountains Community Centre, Lawson with 100 people in attendance. The Forum focused on three distinct tasks:

1. Review what the community – individuals, business, organisations, interest groups, villages and the Council – have and have not achieved in the priority actions areas set out in the Map for Action and how we can assess and measure our progress in becoming a more sustainable City. 
2. Rethink some key issues and approaches in the Map for Action. For example, how is the future of our City affected in the light of heightened concern about climate change?
3. Re-engage the community and re-energise commitment to our Vision of living in a more sustainable City and consider what our focus should be in prioritising action for the next 5-10 years.

Click here to view the Forum Booklet.

Click here to view the Forum Outputs.