City of Stirling Corporate Business Plan

Outcome 2: A great place to work, invest and do business Objective:What does the City aim to achieve? Facilitate economic growth

Outcome 2: Projects Cyber Security Program

2021/22

 2022/23

2023/24

2024/25

CyberCheck.me is a collaborative initiative with Edith Cowan University to raise awareness and provide education to local businesses on cybercrime

Q1 Q2 Cyber Security workshops planned and promoted Q3 Workshops held Q4 Cyber security program completed Final report received from Edith Cowan University

Strategy: How will we get there? y Promote investment and partnership opportunities y Make it easier to do business with the City y Support and facilitate local small business growth.

Key informing frameworks and plans y Economic and Tourism Development Strategy.

2021/22 net project cost

$25,000

Place Activation – Shopfront Improvement Grants 2021/22

 2022/23

 2023/24

2024/25

These grants aim to enhance the destination and visitor experience in the City’s town centres of Mount Lawley, Inglewood, Main Street Osborne Park, Doubleview and Scarborough

Q1 Planning works completed Grant applications opened Q2 Grant applications closed

Grant applications assessed and successful applicants notified Project delivery by grant recipient commenced Q3 Project delivery by grant recipient continued Q4 Grant acquittal, funding and evaluation completed

Outcome 2: Services Services

Sub-services

FTE

2021/22 net service cost

Economic Development

y Tourism promotion and event attraction to the City y Local business attraction to enhance economic capacity

3.0

726,870

2021/22 net project cost

$50,000

y Small business support y Advocacy for business

Small Business Friendly Approvals Project

2021/22

 2022/23

2023/24

2024/25

The project will improve customer service by streamlining assessment of small business applications within the City

Q1 Improvements to the Property Ci software completed to enable quicker processing of small business applications Q2 Workflow changes made to enable faster assessment of applications Project completed

Outcome 2: Projects Business Innovation Competition

2021/22

 2022/23

2023/24

2024/25

To support innovation in local small businesses by running a competition to enable innovative projects to progress

Q1 Expert panel established

Q3 Q4

Application developed for competition

Q2 Competition promoted

2021/22 net project cost

$70,000

Entries for the competition closed

Q3 Q4 Acquittal reports received from business applicants

2021/22 net project cost

$55,000

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