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                    Councillor portfolios

                    Councillor portfolios as adopted by Council in March 2022 are as follows.

                    Details of each portfolio and areas of responsibility can be found below.

                    Finance, governance and risk

                    Portfolio lead: Councillor Philip Le Liu
                    Deputy lead: Deputy 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

                    Environment

                    ​Portfolio lead: Councillor Rohan Leppert
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Elizabeth Mary Doidge 

                    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

                    Sustainable building

                    ​Portfolio lead: Councillor Elizabeth Mary Doidge
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Leppert

                    Areas of responsibility

                    • Sustainable building design
                    • Sustainable building design planning scheme amendments
                    • Energy retrofits and efficiency
                    • Green roofs 

                    City planning

                    ​Portfolio lead: Deputy Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Rohan Leppert

                    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

                    Portfolio lead: Councillor Rohan Leppert
                    Deputy lead: Deputy Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece

                    Areas of responsibility

                    • Heritage
                    • Heritage planning scheme amendments

                    City transport, infrastructure and operations

                    Portfolio lead: Lord Mayor Sally Capp
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Davydd Griffiths

                    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

                    City activation

                    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

                    Creative Melbourne

                    ​Portfolio lead: Councillor Jamal Hakim
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Elizabeth Mary Doidge

                    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

                    Business and global opportunities

                    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

                    Small business

                    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

                    Health, wellbeing and belonging

                    Portfolio lead: Councillor Dr Olivia Ball
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Jamal Hakim

                    Areas of responsibility

                    • Family services
                    • Community services
                    • Covid 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

                    Aboriginal Melbourne

                    Portfolio lead: Lord Mayor Sally Capp
                    Deputy lead: Councillor Dr Olivia Ball

                    Areas of responsibility

                    • Reconciliation
                    • Aboriginal heritage
                    • Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing including Homelessness
                    • Aboriginal Economic Participation
                    • Aboriginal City
                    • Aboriginal Protocols and Engagement

                    Education and innovation

                    ​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
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