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About FMC
The Future Melbourne Committee is grouped into 12 portfolios:
- Finance, Governance and Risk
- City Planning
- Environment
- Sustainable Building
- City Transport, Infrastructure and Operations
- City Activation
- Creative Melbourne
- Business and Global Opportunities
- Small Business
- Health, Wellbeing and Belonging
- Aboriginal Melbourne
- Education and Innovation.
Read the Instrument of Delegation to the Future Melbourne Committee (PDF 389 KB), and see portfolio details below for the main responsibilities and lead members of each portfolio.
The committee oversees the implementation of Council Plan strategies and activities contributing to achieving the goals of the 13 themes. The committee will:
- Approve, or recommend to Council approval of, proposals for activities related to these goals.
- Approve, or recommend to Council approval of, expenditure of resources for activities related to these goals.
- Monitor the progress of activities in the Council Plan relevant to these goals.
Meetings
There are two FMC meetings each month. See the schedule of meeting dates.
The Lord Mayor chairs the entire meeting with the exception of the City Planning segment which is chaired by the Deputy Lord Mayor.
The quorum for the committee is a majority of its members.
You can use the meetings search to access all agenda papers and documentation for Future Melbourne Committee meetings.
See all previous Future Melbourne Committee meetings.
Governance Rules
Portfolios
- Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece:
- Deputy Lead: City Planning
- Deputy Lead: Finance, Governance and Risk
- Deputy Lead: City Transport, Infrastructure and Operations
- Deputy Lead: Aboriginal Melbourne
- Councillor Dr Olivia Ball:
- Lead: Health, Wellbeing and Belonging
- Lead: Aboriginal Melbourne
- Councillor Roshena Campbell:
- Lead: City Activation
- Councillor Jason Chang:
- Lead: Small Business
- Deputy Lead: Business and Global Opportunities
- Councillor Elizabeth Mary O'Sullivan Myles
- Lead: Sustainable Building
- Deputy Lead: Creative Melbourne
- Deputy Lead: Environment
- Councillor Davydd Griffiths:
- Lead: Education and Innovation
- Lead: City Transport, Infrastructure and Operations
- Councillor Jamal Hakim:
- Lead: Creative Melbourne
- Deputy Lead: Health, Wellbeing and Belonging
- Deputy Lead: City Activation
- Councillor Philip Le Liu:
- Lead: Finance, Governance and Risk
- Deputy Lead: Education and Innovation
- Councillor Rohan Leppert:
- Lead: Environment
- Lead: City Planning
- Deputy Lead: Sustainable Building
- Councillor Kevin Louey:
- Lead: Business and Global Opportunities
- Deputy Lead: Small Business
Portfolio details
The primary responsibilities are:
- corporate and financial planning and reporting
- annual budget
- triple bottom line processes and reporting
- rates and valuations
- financial and control systems/reporting
- online services
- data platforms including open data
- investment fund
- property strategy
- continuous improvement
- subsidiary companies and associated entities:
- Queen Victoria Market Pty Ltd
- Citywide Service Solutions Pty Ltd
- procurement - tender and contract policies
- audit and risk
- investment fund
- disclosure and transparency
- legal services
- local laws
- revenue
- sustainable development goals and city benchmarking
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Le Lui is the Portfolio Lead and Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- strategic planning
- structure planning
- statutory planning and building control
- urban design
- planning scheme amendments (other than for heritage and sustainable building design)
- noise abatement
- Design Excellence
- community engagement relating to the above
- heritage
- heritage planning scheme amendments
- community engagement relating to the above.
Cr Leppert is the Portfolio Lead and will chair the City Planning segment of the FMC agenda. The Lord Mayor will chair the City Planning segment in Councillor Leppert’s absence
The primary responsibilities are:
- parking
- public lighting
- rubbish collection
- delivery of capital works
- asset management program
- Greenline
- transport
- traffic management
- cycling strategy
- urban freight and last kilometre freight
- Connecting Docklands
- road safety
- walking
- water transport and mobility
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Griffiths is the Portfolio Lead and Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- Brand Melbourne
- destination marketing
- liveability ranking
- retail
- hospitality industry
- tourism visitation
- social enterprise
- investment attraction
- economic activation
- conference and convention attraction
- event partnership program
- premier events
- night time economy
- sponsorship
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Campbell is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor Hakim is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- arts and arts grants
- artistic and creative events and organisations
- creative spaces
- libraries
- public art/streetscapes
- aboriginal arts including YIRRAMBOI
- city gallery
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Hakim is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor O'Sullivan Myles is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- Council carbon neutral
- integrated water management
- zero net emissions
- whole of council sustainability programs
- Melbourne renewable energy project
- energy resources
- climate adaptation and resilience
- waste and resource recovery
- urban forest and precinct plans
- urban ecology and biodiversity
- open space and parks plans
- Power Melbourne
- urban farming
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Leppert is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor O'Sullivan Myles is Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- sustainable building design
- sustainable building design planning scheme amendments
- energy retrofits and efficiency
- green roofs
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor O'Sullivan Myles is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor Leppert is Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- business support
- Business Development Fund
- trader groups
- sister city relationships
- international strategy
- Melbourne office, Tianjin
- global city alliances (including relationships, trade missions and marketing)
- Business Partners Cities Network
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Louey is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor Chang is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- Business Concierge Service
- business consultation program/business roundtables
- small business and grants
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Chang is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor Louey is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- family services
- community services
- covid testing and vaccinations
- aged services
- Disability Action Plan
- domestic animal management
- emergency management/services
- city safety
- public health and wellbeing
- strata title living
- diversity and inclusion
- social policy
- community grants
- social and affordable housing
- homelessness
- Make Room
- MSIR
- smoke free zones
- children s services
- youth
- community sports
- recreation
- multiculturalism
- waterways
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Dr Olivia Ball is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor Hakim is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- Reconciliation
- Aboriginal heritage
- Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing including Homelessness
- Aboriginal Economic Participation
- Aboriginal City
- Aboriginal Protocols and Engagement
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Dr Olivia Ball is the Portfolio Lead and Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece is the Deputy Lead.
The primary responsibilities are:
- relationships with:
- universities
- research institutes
- technical and further education institutions
- registered training organisations
- local schools
- international students
- international education
- city learning
- Melbourne Conversations
- accelerator programs
- innovation districts
- startups
- community engagement relating to the above.
Councillor Griffiths is the Portfolio Lead and Councillor Le Liu is the Deputy Lead.
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