Articles tagged ‘Mayor’.
Council recently received a report to update us about the impacts of the January 2011 floods. Many residents were affected by the floods and many more...
Read article
Now February has arrived it seems to me that the world returns to its normal pace and things get serious again. As school has returned our streets wil...
Read article
I have had a restful time over the Council break, and most of it was in my community and often with friends and family. It is a wonderful idea to spen...
Read article
As Australia Day approaches I am always reminded that the new year is up and running and we are all getting back into harness. Australia Day also come...
Read article
As the festive season approaches I always find myself reviewing the year from a number of aspects. For our nation we seem to have come through the wor...
Read article
One of the most pleasant tasks that Council has is to administer the community grants to organisations in the Shire each year. In the current budget C...
Read article
I’ve been concerned in recent times about some community reflections regarding our Council works and thought it might be a good idea to explain for ...
Read article
Dear Sir, I feel obliged to respond to Hans Paas’ recent offering to your site. (Council as theatre?) Mr Paas has raised his concerns about the lack...
Read article
Some time ago I wrote a message about mayoral robes and insignia and I wanted to update you. While these sorts of dressings of the Council are not imp...
Read article
Last Sunday I had the honour and pleasure of officiating with our Federal MP, Steve Gibbons, and Uncle Brien Nelson in the official opening of the ref...
Read article
When a new Council is elected it is required to outline a Council Plan for the 4 year term of the Council. The current Council did this and also provi...
Read article
At its last meeting Council endorsed the Annual Report for 2010/2011, which is a requirement of most organisations. The report is prepared in a mann...
Read article
Recently Cr Brook Acklom resigned from Council due to deteriorating health issues which make it very difficult for him to be mobile around the Shire. ...
Read article
While my garden is green and spring like the weather is still cool, the rain keeps coming and we light the fire often – so it seems a bit crazy to w...
Read article
A significant role of the Mayor of any municipality is to promote the interests of their municipality to the other levels of government in a construct...
Read article
I often feel our community is overwhelmed by requests for fundraising and getting involved, sometimes for issues close to home and sometimes for bigge...
Read article
I often find myself congratulating community organisations on the wonderful work done by volunteers, and I am amazed at the number and diversity of gr...
Read article
I spent a morning recently at a meeting with the Audit and Risk Advisory Committee for Council. This independent group has a large responsibility to...
Read article
Mayor’s Message At the last Council meeting the Shire’s latest new senior staff member attended her first meeting and it prompted me to think it m...
Read article
Our Council has an environmental health unit, made up of one full time and one part time officer. These staff members have responsibility for regula...
Read article
Recently I have had some residents asking me to do something about salespeople knocking on doors trying to sell things or trying to encourage resident...
Read article
Over the last year I have had the opportunity to visit many of the primary schools in the municipality and thought I might share some of my reflection...
Read article
As a Council we meet every Tuesday, unless there are five Tuesdays in the month and then we get one off. Councillors spend more time in ‘briefings...
Read article
Council recently adopted a piece of research work as a Reference Document, Rural Land Capability Study, to the Planning Scheme. While this may sound...
Read article
Tuesday 9 August is Australian Census night, so after the Council meeting that evening I’ll be tackling my form along with all residents. The data ...
Read article
I have had a spate of calls with issues relating to Council by-laws in the recent weeks and thought I might explain them more for everyone’s underst...
Read article
Community Men’s Sheds have developed and grown over the last 15 years in Victoria. There are now 80 operating across the State. Some are in the comm...
Read article
It might be interesting for you to know that Local Government is not recognised in the Australian Constitution, even though every one of us uses a loc...
Read article
Last week I spent four days at a conference in Canberra with people from local government from across Australia. While Canberra is very cold at this t...
Read article
This year celebrations are planned for the 150th anniversary of three Gothic church buildings in the Shire. The Anglican community church in Maldon, t...
Read article
In a discussion recently someone cited to me a Buddhist principle, which I found reflective. I’ve always been drawn to Buddhism philosophy as it see...
Read article
As the Mayor and a Councillor I often find myself in discussion with residents about what people see as the role of local government. And there are ...
Read article
This Sunday is World Environment Day and I’m looking forward to celebrating it with community members. environmental groups and staff in the Market ...
Read article
At its meeting on May 10, Council adopted the Mount Alexander Arts Strategy 2011- 2015 and a Public Arts Policy. Both these pieces of work were commen...
Read article
Next week from 23 to 29 May is Responsible Gambling Awareness Week, a week where State and Local Government with community and industry groups have a ...
Read article
This week we are in the middle of National Volunteer Week and when we can celebrate something across our nation I think it is an indicator of how reli...
Read article
