Panel Discussion: Deliberative Engagement to Balance the Asset and Financial Plan
The Panel aims to bring a local government perspective to re-thinking budgeting. Councils in Victoria would have all publicly published their Council Plans Asset Plans and Financial Plans in a Community Engaged Process that has been Deliberative in nature.
The three panellists – one each from a metro, large rural and very small rural will explore their learnings, challenges and perspectives of what it means for line of sight for financial planning from a service level perspective. What did we change, will it improve our capital planning, what did our communities tell us and how did we use that to balance our budgets.
Speakers
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Ashay PrabhuAdvisor GFOA & Co-Founder ModelveAshay is passionate about capacity building in governments and is an International
Advisor to GFOA (Government Finance Officers Association of the USA) and CoFounder of Modelve – a strategic asset modeling platform.He is passionate about the art of storytelling in long term asset plans – so finance,
engineering and climate scientists collaborate to bring their combined stories to life.
Stories that articulate how the community may choose to live in future by
simulating multiple scenarios based on their choices – for costs, climate, liveability,
comfort, risk and well-being.It’s their infrastructure after all…
Ashay spends a vast majority of his time globally delivering masterclasses and
workshops on Strategic Asset Management – including the use of strategic asset
modelling and budget games to help mitigate bias in Long Term Financial Plans. He
continues to serve as a GFOA International Advisor, helping bridge global insights in
fiscal and asset strategy.In the hope that younger practitioners embrace this art of SAM storytelling, so
future dots can join for our communities -
Hepburn Shire Council
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Karen MilnerStrategic Asset Systems Coordinator, Mildura Rural City CouncilKaren is local to the region, having grown up in and around the Mildura area. She is a CPA and has been with Mildura Rural City Council for almost 18 years, across two tenures. She spent just over 2 years, from 2020 to 2022, working at the local water authority, Lower Murray Water to diversify her experience into project management. Her career journey has taken her from asset accounting to project management, and now into strategic asset management, where she has really found her passion. What’s next in her career? She is focused on improving the asset management practices and making asset management a key part of delivering sustainable services for her community.
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Maroondah City Council
