Portfolio details
Portfolio lead: Councillor Philip Le Liu
Deputy lead: Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece
Areas of responsibility
- 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
- Continuous improvement
- Subsidiary companies
- Queen Victoria Market Pty Ltd
- Citywide Service Solutions Pty Ltd
- Procurement - tender and contract policies
- Audit and risk
- Property strategy
- Revenue
- Investment Fund
- Disclosure and transparency
- Legal services
- Local Laws
- Sustainable development goals and city benchmarking
Portfolio lead: Councillor Rohan Leppert
Deputy lead: Councillor Elizabeth Mary O'Sullivan Myles
Areas of responsibility
- 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
- Urban farming
- Power Melbourne
Portfolio lead: Councillor Elizabeth Mary O'Sullivan Myles
Deputy lead: Councillor Rohan Leppert
Areas of responsibility
- Sustainable building design
- Sustainable building design planning scheme amendments
- Energy retrofits and efficiency
- Green roofs
Portfolio lead: Councillor Rohan Leppert
Deputy lead: Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece
Areas of responsibility
- 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
- Heritage
- Heritage planning scheme amendments
Portfolio lead: Councillor Davydd Griffiths
Deputy lead: Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece
Areas of responsibility
- Parking
- Public lighting
- Rubbish collection
- Delivery of capital works
- Asset management program
- Greenline
- Transport
- Traffic management
- Cycling strategy
- Urban freight including last kilometre freight
- Connecting Docklands
- Road safety
- Walking
- Water transport and mobility
Portfolio lead: Councillor Roshena Campbell
Deputy lead: Councillor Jamal Hakim
Areas of responsibility
- 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
Portfolio lead: Councillor Jamal Hakim
Deputy lead: Councillor Elizabeth Mary O'Sullivan Myles
Areas of responsibility
- Arts and arts grants
- Artistic and creative events and organisations
- Creative spaces
- Libraries
- Public art / streetscapes
- Aboriginal arts including YIRRAMBOI
- City Gallery
Portfolio lead: Councillor Kevin Louey
Deputy lead: Councillor Jason Chang
Areas of responsibility
- 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
Portfolio lead: Councillor Jason Chang
Deputy lead: Councillor Kevin Louey
Areas of responsibility
- Business consultation program / business roundtables
- Small business and grants
- Business Concierge Service
Portfolio lead: Councillor Dr Olivia Ball
Deputy lead: Councillor Jamal Hakim
Areas of responsibility
- Family services
- Community services
- COVID-19 testing and vaccinations
- Domestic animal management
- Aged services
- Disability Action Plan
- 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
Portfolio lead: Councillor Dr Olivia Ball
Deputy lead: Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece
Areas of responsibility
- Reconciliation
- Aboriginal heritage
- Aboriginal health and wellbeing, including homelessness
- Aboriginal economic participation
- Aboriginal city
- Aboriginal protocols and engagement
Portfolio lead: Councillor Davydd Griffiths
Deputy lead: Councillor Philip Le Liu
Areas of responsibility
- 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
Related pages
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The Melbourne City Council comprises a lord mayor, deputy lord mayor and nine councillors. The Councillors were elected in November 2020.
Council role and services
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Vision and goals
City of Melbourne has a vision for Melbourne as a City of Possibility, where the world meets and extraordinary happens. To bring this vision to life we have developed six strategic priorities that reflect our community aspirations.
