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.
Speaker
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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
