The Long-Term Financial Plan provides a 10 year financially sustainable projection regarding how the actions of the Council Plan may be funded to achieve the Community Vision.

It directs our future spending, saving and investment so we can continue delivering and maintaining our services and infrastructure. It also helps us to plan for the delivery of major, intergenerational capital projects over the next decade.

Developing the Plan

Across 2024-2025, Council undertook the 'Towards a Better Bass Coast' project to inform the development of Council's new key strategic documents for 2025-2029 and beyond.

The Financial Plan contains an ambitious capital works program with details of the major capital projects provided which include the Former Wonthaggi Secondary College site, Bass Coast Aquatic and Leisure Centre (Wonthaggi), Phillip Island Sporting Precinct and Cowes Streetscapes.

The Long-Term Financial Plan and the Asset Plan have both been developed reflecting our communities’ priorities which were identified through extensive community consultation completed in July and August 2024 and the deliberative engagement undertaken by the Community Panel earlier this year.