Councils seek submissions on all sorts of proposals to make sure their decisions are informed by the community.  And when people make the effort to make a submission, it’s important that their views are fairly represented in a report back to the elected members.

This guide to summarising and reporting on submission will help you to:

• group submissions into categories
• set up a system to easily find all the submissions within a topic category
• summarise the submissions
• use a consistent structure to concisely report on the feedback
• prepare customised responses to submitters.

Using this system will enable you to automate key aspects of the summarising and reporting process, and to double-check your numbers (in support and opposition) at any time.

Click here to access the guide to summarising and reporting on submissions.