Community Recovery Committee endorsed to support flood recovery
Published on 13 February 2023
Council has endorsed the establishment of a Community Recovery Committee (CRC) to support ongoing recovery efforts in the wake of the 2022 Maribyrnong River flood event.
The River breached its banks in the early morning of Friday 14 October 2022 impacting residents, businesses and community organisations and approximately 500 properties, in the suburb of Maribyrnong.
Community-led approaches, like CRC’s, are recognised as a key mechanism to support sustainable disaster recovery by fostering self-reliance and self-determination within impacted communities. This was seen in the recovery of the Black Summer 2019-20 bushfires, and was suggested by impacted local residents as an approach they would like to see adopted in the wake of the Maribyrnong flood event.
The CRC will include a majority of community members, for a term of 18 months, who will provide guidance, support, and advice on what recovery should look like for their local community.
This could include developing and implementing strategies to create a community-led Recovery Plan, disseminating recovery information to the impacted community, and supporting Council in promoting and advocating for the needs of impacted residents.
Expressions of interest (EOI) for nominations are now open, and close at 5pm, Friday 24 February.
Interested residents are invited head to the website to read the full Terms of Reference and express their interest by:
For more information, visit maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/flood
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