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Proposal for MyWyndham+ — a resident app and council console for the City of Wyndham

One app for everything a City of Wyndham resident needs from council.

MyWyndham+ brings reporting, waste & recycling, local events, the business directory, safety alerts, Green Points rewards and an AI assistant into a single resident app — paired with a council admin console so every department can manage its own content and respond to residents directly.

Built for

The City of Wyndham — one of Victoria's fastest-growing, most diverse communities

Resident app

19 modules across 4 nav tabs — reporting, events, waste, business directory, Green Points, AI assistant

Council console

A dedicated workspace for each department — operations, economic development, communications and more

Everyday language

One-tap language switching so every service reads naturally, whatever language a household speaks at home

What residents deal with today

  • Council services are split across a website, a PDF waste calendar, a phone line and separate social channels — nothing is in one place.
  • Nearly half of Wyndham residents were born overseas; services that aren't translated leave a large share of the community behind.
  • A report or request goes in and disappears — no visible status, no history, no way to check back.
  • Local safety information — hazards, suspicious activity, fire bans — reaches residents late or not at all.
  • Finding a trustworthy local business, or a reason to try one, usually means leaving the council's world entirely and searching elsewhere.
  • A simple question — "when's my bin day," "how do I book hard waste" — often means waiting on hold or digging through a website at 11pm.
  • There's no everyday reason to open a council app more than once or twice a year.

What MyWyndham+ gives the City of Wyndham

  • Every service — reporting, waste, events, business directory, Green Points — lives in one app with a consistent, accessible design.
  • One-tap language switching with auto-translated content, so every household can use the app in the language they're most comfortable in.
  • Reports, RSVPs and reward redemptions all show up as visible, trackable history — residents always know where things stand.
  • Any resident can raise a safety alert that reaches everyone within about 1.5km in seconds, capped to prevent misuse.
  • An AI assistant answers real council questions instantly, any time of day, grounded in council's own information — no hold music.
  • Green Points turns everyday civic actions into real rewards at local businesses across the City of Wyndham, giving residents a reason to come back.
  • Guests can browse events, businesses, news and FAQs with no account at all — signing in only unlocks the personal, two-way features.
19
resident-facing modules covering every everyday council service
6
council department workspaces, each with its own dedicated access
58
council knowledge topics the AI assistant can answer from directly
70+
local businesses ready to browse across Wyndham's suburbs

The resident app, screen by screen

Home → Modules → Report It → Events → Green Points → Profile

Four bottom-nav tabs — Home, Modules, Green Points and Profile — with every service a resident actually needs reachable in two taps, and a design language that stays simple for every age and digital confidence level.

01 — Home dashboard

Good afternoon
Amara Michaels
3
AM
🗑️
Yellow-lid bin
Collection tomorrow · Point Cook
📅
Community Market
Sat 9am · Wyndham Vale
Suburb news
Road resurfacing on Vale Street from Monday
Wyndham Vale · 2h ago
📷
Report an issue
♻️
Waste & recycling
🚨
Emergency
💬
Ask AI Assistant
74%
740 Green Points
Sprout tier · 260 to Sapling

A daily home screen, not a static menu

  • What it does: pulls together urgent council alerts, today's bin day, the next local event, and one-tap access to the most-used actions, all on one screen.
  • Why it's useful: most residents only want to know two things — "is anything urgent happening" and "what's due today" — so this answers both before they even tap anything.
  • Guest vs. signed in: anyone can see the home screen and browse freely; signing in personalises it with a name, a Green Points snapshot, and unlocks the quick actions that need an account.

02 — All modules

Explore
Search services, FAQs, businesses…
💬
Ask Wyndham AI Assistant
Get a straight answer, day or night
📷
Report an issue
🛡️
Safety alerts
☎️
Emergency contacts
🎉
Events
🏪
Local business
📰
Suburb news
FAQs
♻️
Waste & recycling
🏡
New resident guide
📊
Pulse surveys
🎙️
Community voice

Every service the council offers, in one organised place

  • What it does: lists every module — reporting, events, waste, business directory, FAQs and more — grouped by what a resident is trying to do, with search up top and the AI Assistant surfaced as its own banner.
  • Why it's useful: a resident doesn't need to know which council department handles something, or remember an app's internal structure — they just find things by intent.
  • Guest vs. signed in: the whole hub is browsable as a guest; modules that need an account (Report It, Safety Alerts, Community Voice) simply prompt for sign-in the moment they're opened.

03 — Report It

Report It
🕳️ Pothole
🖌️ Graffiti
💡 Street light
All
Submitted
Resolved
🕳️
Pothole
Deep pothole near Ballan Rd & Derrimut...
2 Jul, 4:12 pm·💬 1View more ›
♻️
Illegal dumping
Resolved
Mattress dumped behind Central Ave shops
28 Jun, 9:05 amView more ›
View more (4 more)

Report an issue with a photo and a pin on the map

  • What it does: a resident picks a category (pothole, graffiti, dumping and more), attaches a photo, drops a location pin or uses their current position, and submits — then tracks it through Submitted, In review, In progress, Resolved or Closed with status filters and a "View more" list.
  • Why it's useful: it replaces "I called council and never heard back" with a resident-visible paper trail — they always know exactly where their report stands, and council staff get a photo and exact location instead of a vague phone description.
  • Guest vs. signed in: a guest can open Report It and see the categories and form, but submitting a report and viewing "My reports" history requires signing in — so every report is tied to a real resident, not an anonymous drop.

04 — Community & Events

Community & Events
All events
My upcoming
Wyndham Vale Community Market
Attending
📍 Wyndham Vale Community Centre
📅 Sat 11 Jul, 9:00 am
You're attending
Werribee Open Range Community Day
Attending
📍 Werribee Open Range Zoo
📅 Sun 26 Jul, 10:00 am
You're attending

Find local events and keep track of what you're going to

  • What it does: browse markets, festivals and community events by category, tap "Attend," and switch to a "My upcoming" view showing only what's RSVP'd and still ahead of you — with an "Attending" badge on every card so it's clear at a glance.
  • Why it's useful: it turns council's event calendar from something residents forget about into something they actually show up to, and gives council a real read on attendance interest per event.
  • Guest vs. signed in: browsing every event is open to guests; tapping "Attend" and seeing "My upcoming" requires signing in.

05 — Green Points

Green Points
740
points
🌱 Sprout tier
📚
Free library membership
Wyndham Vale Library · 30 pts
Redeem
🎟️
Free library membership
Awaiting pickup
Wyndham Vale Library · 30 pts
MWP-V6RST61GTF6 Jul, 9:15 pm
🥤
$5 market voucher
Fulfilled
Werribee Farmers Market · 60 pts
MWP-K2P0QXL8MZ30 Jun, 10:02 am

The feature that keeps residents coming back to the app

  • What it does: residents earn Green Points for everyday civic actions — reporting an issue, attending an event, recycling, completing a survey — watch a tier ring fill up (Seedling → Sprout → Sapling → Tree), and redeem points for real offers at local businesses across the City of Wyndham, with every redemption kept in a permanent "My redemptions" history.
  • Why it's useful: most council apps are used once and forgotten; Green Points gives residents an actual, ongoing reason to open the app — earn points, watch progress, redeem for something real — while quietly encouraging the exact civic behaviours council wants more of.
  • Guest vs. signed in: Green Points is entirely an account feature — a resident needs to be signed in to earn, track or redeem points, which is part of why it's such a strong reason to actually create an account.

06 — Profile

My account
AM
Amara Michaels
Wyndham Vale · Resident since 2023
🌱 740 pts · Sprout tier
📷 My reports 3 open ›
🎉 My upcoming events 2 events ›
🎁 My redemptions 2 redeemed ›
✏️ Edit profile
🌐 Language English ›
🔔 Notifications On ›
FAQs
☎️ Contact council
Sign out

One place to see everything you've done and change how the app talks to you

  • What it does: switch language with one tap (auto-translating reports, events, news and FAQs from then on), see "My activity" — reports, attending events and redemptions in one place — and keep an eye on Green Points tier, all from a single screen.
  • Why it's useful: it's the one screen that answers "what have I actually done in this app," and the language switch is what makes every other feature genuinely usable for residents who don't read English as a first language.
  • Guest vs. signed in: Profile only exists after signing in — it's the personal home base an account unlocks, distinct from the public browsing a guest gets everywhere else.

Beyond the basics

Safety alerts, an AI assistant, and every suburb's businesses

Three capabilities that go beyond a typical council app — each one answering a specific need City of Wyndham residents actually have day to day.

07 — Safety Alerts

Safety Alerts
Alert nearby residents about suspicious activity, a hazard, or a missing person — within about 1.5km, in seconds.
👁️ Suspicious activity
⚠️ Hazard
⚠️
Hazard
Fallen tree blocking footpath near Ballan Rd.
2 min ago·🔔 14 notified
Suspicious activity
Reviewed
Car door handles being tried on Vale Street.
Yesterday·🔔 9 notified
2 of 2 alerts used today

Warn your neighbours the moment something's wrong

  • What it does: a resident picks a category — suspicious activity, hazard, missing person, safety concern — describes what's happening, and it pushes a notification to every resident within about 1.5km, almost instantly.
  • Why it's useful: it closes the gap between "something's wrong right now" and the neighbourhood actually knowing — no new hardware, no SMS costs, just the phone already in everyone's pocket. Capped at 2 alerts per resident per day so it can't be used to spam.
  • Guest vs. signed in: raising or receiving an alert requires signing in (so every alert is traceable to a real resident, not anonymous); staff can then mark it reviewed or dismiss a false alarm from the admin console.

08 — AI Assistant

AI Council Assistant
🎧
Hi! Ask about waste collection, local events, council services or reporting issues.
How many hard waste collections can I book per year?
You can book up to 3 hard waste collections per financial year, up to 3m³ each. Extra collections cost $111.50.
📄 Source: Wyndham Council Reference Guide
Ask a council question…

Ask a real question, get a real answer — day or night

  • What it does: a resident types a question in plain language and gets an answer drawn from real council information — suburb details, waste rules, permits, governance, transport — with the conversation remembered turn to turn, not reset every message.
  • Why it's useful: it covers the exact moment council's phone line is closed — 9pm, a Sunday, a public holiday — and because it's grounded in council's own documents rather than a generic AI, the answers stay accurate to actual local policy, not a guess.
  • Guest vs. signed in: the assistant is a signed-in feature — this keeps conversation history tied to the resident's own account, and lets them escalate to a real staff member with one tap if it can't fully resolve something.

09 — Local Business Directory

Local Business Directory
🔍 Search businesses, services…
All suburbs
Werribee
Point Cook
Wyndham Vale
All categories
Food & Drink
Health & Beauty
Wolf on Watton
Werribee
Riverside all-day dining on Watton St
🦷
McGrath Dental
Wyndham Vale
Family dental practice, open 6 days
💪
Goodlife Health Clubs
Point Cook
24/7 gym with Reform Pilates & steam room

Find and support real local businesses, suburb by suburb

  • What it does: search and filter 70+ real local businesses — cafes, health services, trades, retail — by suburb and category, across Werribee, Point Cook, Wyndham Vale and more, with council verification badges on confirmed listings.
  • Why it's useful: it gives residents a trustworthy alternative to a generic map search, and gives local traders across the City of Wyndham genuine visibility in front of the whole community — especially once a Green Points offer is attached and it becomes a reason to actually walk in.
  • Guest vs. signed in: the whole directory is open to guests with no account needed; signing in is only needed to redeem a Green Points offer at checkout.

Built for council staff too

A council admin console, not just a resident app

Every resident-facing action has a matching staff view, so each department can see and act on what residents are doing without needing a separate system or a developer to make a change.

MyWyndham+
🏠 Dashboard
Communications
📢 Broadcast Notifications
🗂️ Event Categories
🎉 Events
☎️ Emergency Contacts
📰 Suburb Updates
Administration
📊 Reports & Analytics
👥 Staff Users
Residents
👤 Users
🌱 Green Points Ledger
🛡️ Community Alerts
AI & Support
💬 Ai Chat Messages
💬 Ai Chat Sessions
📄 AI Knowledge Documents
Notifications
🔔 App Notifications
SA

Dashboard

SA
Welcome
Site Administrator
⇥ Sign out
🚩 Reports
4
🚩 3 new
🛡️ Safety alerts
0
✅ Awaiting review
🎉 Events
5
📅 Published
🏬 Businesses
28
🏬 6 active offers
🎁 Reward redemptions
2
🎁 Awaiting pickup
🚚 Bookings
1
🚚 Pending requests
💬 Surveys
1
💬 Active
⚠️ Open reports
4
⚠️ Across all statuses
🛡️ Safety alerts to review
0
✅ Raised by residents
💬 Escalated AI sessions
2
💬 Waiting on a staff reply
🚚 Pending bookings
1
🚚 Waste collection requests
🔔 Unread notifications
5
🔔 Queued for residents

One dashboard gives every department a live view of reports, safety alerts, events, businesses, bookings and AI assistant activity — the exact screen council staff see the moment they log in.

Six departments, one login screen

Access control mapped to how council is actually organised

Super Admin
Full access across every resource — the only role that can manage staff accounts and roles.
Operations
Reports, waste bookings, new resident tasks, analytics dashboard, Green Points ledger audit.
Economic Development
Business directory, offers, reward redemptions — the local-commerce side of the platform.
Customer Service
AI chat sessions, knowledge documents, escalations — the support and AI-assistant surface.
Communications
Push notification broadcasts, suburb news, FAQ content authoring.
Community Engagement
Events, surveys, community voice campaigns, attendance tracking.

Complete module map

Every module in the app, resident-facing and admin

19 resident-facing modules across four navigation areas, backed by a council console with a dedicated workspace for every department that needs one.

Home & navigation 3

Home dashboard

Council alerts, today's bin day & events, latest news, quick actions, Green Points snapshot.

Modules hub

Search plus every module grouped by resident intent, with the AI Assistant surfaced up top.

🔍

Search

Cross-module search across services, FAQs and businesses.

Report & respond 3

📷

Report It

Submit issues with photo & live location; status/category filters, card list, view-more pagination.

🛡️

Safety Alerts

Broadcast a proximity push alert to residents within ~1.5km; rate-limited, staff-reviewable.

☎️

Emergency contacts

Colour-coded local emergency and council service numbers.

Around Wyndham 4

🎉

Community & Events

Browse and RSVP to events; "My upcoming" view and an Attending badge on every card and detail page.

🏪

Local business directory

70+ real businesses across Werribee, Point Cook, Wyndham Vale and more, filterable by suburb & category.

📰

Suburb news

Formatted council articles with images, written by staff and read natively in the app.

FAQs

Common questions, auto-translated per resident's chosen language.

Home & waste 2

♻️

Waste & recycling

Bin schedule, hard-waste bookings with live location, reminders, recycling scanner.

🏡

New resident guide

Move-in onboarding checklist, works for guests and signed-in residents.

Have your say 2

📊

Wyndham Pulse

Council news, alerts and survey campaigns.

🎙️

Community voice

Resident surveys with response tracking.

Rewards & account 5

Green Points

Tiered progress ring, ways to earn, redeem nearby, and a persistent redemption history with live status.

💬

AI Assistant

Chat sessions with council-context answers and human escalation.

🔔

Notifications

In-app notification centre with read/unread state.

Profile

Account details, activity summary, language switcher, support links.

🔑

Sign in / Register

Sanctum token auth, guest access preserved for public modules.

Council admin console 9

📊

Reports & Analytics

KPI widgets and trend charts across reports, alerts, redemptions and waste bookings.

🛠️

Reports & updates

Triage resident reports, post status updates residents see in-app.

🛡️

Community Alerts

Every safety alert raised, with resident, radius and notified count; mark reviewed or dismiss.

📄

AI Knowledge Documents

Upload council documents so the AI assistant's answers stay accurate and current.

🎁

Reward Redemptions

Every resident's redemption with resident, reward, code and status; mark fulfilled or cancel.

🏷️

Businesses & offers

Manage the full business directory and each business's Green Points offers in one place.

💰

Green Points ledger

A clear history of every point earned or spent, and what it was for.

🎉

Events & categories

Create events, manage categories, see attendee counts.

📰

Suburb news & content

Rich-text article authoring for suburb updates, FAQs and business listings.

Why this fits the City of Wyndham

Every feature here answers something about who actually lives here: a resident checking bin day between errands, a parent tracking Saturday's market, a new arrival who reads English as a second or third language, or a council officer who needs to respond to a resident quickly.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Nothing a resident does disappears

Reports, event RSVPs and reward redemptions all show up as visible, filterable history — closing the loop that usually ends at "submitted" with no way to check back.

MULTILINGUAL

Built for a community where half the residents were born overseas

A one-tap language switcher with auto-translated content means reports, events, news and FAQs read naturally in Vietnamese, Punjabi or Arabic — matching the City of Wyndham's own community, not an afterthought.

CIVIC TRUST

Safety information doesn't hide behind icons

A total fire ban, emergency broadcast, or resident-raised safety alert renders full-width in the council's own colour — never competing for attention with the FAQ tile.

OPERATIONAL FIT

Staff get the other half of every flow

Every resident-facing action — a report, an RSVP, a redemption, a safety alert — has a matching admin view, so no department is left working from a separate system.

LOCAL ECONOMY

Green Points loop straight back to local businesses

Civic participation — reporting, attending, recycling — earns points redeemable at real local businesses, giving residents a reason to engage and local traders a reason to take part.

SAFER STREETS

Community safety that residents drive themselves

Safety Alerts put a simple, accountable way to warn nearby neighbours directly in residents' hands — closing a real gap between "something's wrong" and anyone finding out.