2015-2016 Annual Report
Central Desert Regional Council 2015–16 ANNUAL REPORT The Story of the Front Cover The cover of this year’s annual report shows the Anmatjere Roads Team and Community Development Program (CDP) participants and local community members celebrating the opening of the Nturiya Road. Due to heavy rains in January 2015, the Nturiya Road was badly damaged making access to the community difficult and dangerous. Works to reinstate the road were possible thanks to funding provided by the Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements funding. The Nturiya Road reinstatement project demonstrates how Central Desert Regional Council actively works to ensure that projects deliver maximum community benefit as well as value for money for community members and funding bodies. Working Nturiya Road, Anmatjere: flood damage reinstatement work. cooperatively with local businesses, training providers and across different programs within the Council, the Nturiya Road project was a success on multiple fronts. The work undertaken by the Council’s Works team was of a high standard and demonstrated the Council’s ability to undertake works of this calibre. A further nine men from the Community Development Program (CDP), worked alongside private contractors and the Council’s own Works team as part of a Certificate III in Civil Construction training program. The training program, delivered in association with Charles Darwin University, saw the participants not only learn valuable skills, but also significantly contribute to important community projects. Skills learnt as part of the training course have enabled the men Anmatjere’s Morgan Abbott, Maureen van Heusden, Apprentice to operate heavy machinery, including backhoes, bobcats, vibe of the Year Jacko Long and Peter van Heusden at the GTNT Award rollers, tipper trucks, semi trailers, graders and front end loaders.
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