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His Month to Have the Hon Mark Furner, Minister for Agriculture, Industry Development and Fisheries (DAF) Visit with Council on Tuesday 27/8/2019

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His Month to Have the Hon Mark Furner, Minister for Agriculture, Industry Development and Fisheries (DAF) Visit with Council on Tuesday 27/8/2019 Bulloo Buzz 4 September 2019 MAYORS MESSAGE ……………..………….………………………. We were fortunate this month to have the Hon Mark Furner, Minister for Agriculture, Industry Development and Fisheries (DAF) visit with Council on Tuesday 27/8/2019. He had been to Charleville and Quilpie and came out here to meet with Council as well as Mr Anthony Glasson to discuss Mr Glasson’s work with Merino Sheep and current trends in the sheep industry. The Minister was impressed with the work that was happening in Thargo and he was very interested in the Warri Gate road project and the development of the Low Care Independent Living Centre. I informed him that we couldn’t ever remember an Agricultural Minister coming to Bulloo and the last State Minister was Minister Crisafulli who opened the VIC when the National Party was in Government. At Council’s last Ordinary and Special meetings, we approved the purchase of three utilities, a Prado, 1 Landcruiser, 2 Caterpillar Multi Tyred Rollers and 1 Caterpillar 12m Grader. All up this was a total spend of $1.1 million. This is part of Council’s commitment to ensure that we have a modern fleet of vehicles and plant that reduces our Maintenance and gives us a better resale value when we come to trade them in. It also gives local people the opportunity to buy vehicles at a reduced cost that they know have been serviced regularly. We have more plant to purchase but these are our major items for this year. The CEO attended a SWRED meeting in Cunnamulla last week. Items discussed included new funding programmes, the need for Councils to undertake a review of the SWRED Strategic Plan, and reports from the various Government departments that attend and that interact with the 6 Councils that make up the organisation. With the Local Government Elections coming due next March 2020, I would suggest that members of the community may wish to start thinking about an opportunity to put their names on the ballot paper. Whilst being a Councillor can be complex in its operation and abiding by the rules and legislation can be frustrating, it can also be very rewarding, and its where you can have the opportunity to help your community become sustainable and build on the good work of past councillors. Mayor John “Tractor” Ferguson Failure is not the opposite of success; it is part of success Bulloo Shire Council PO Box 46 Thargomindah 4492 T: 07 46218000 Fax: 07 46553131 A/H Emergencies: 0429 611 872 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bulloo.qld.gov.au FROM THE CEO’S DESK …….…………….………………………. Well its back to reality. ‘The Carnival is over’ so sayeth the Seekers. It was a very pleasant arrival too I might add. I came back to a very well run organisation with no hand grenades waiting to go off. I slipped back into the chair like I hadn’t been away. I attribute this to the good work of Ms Tamie Warner who was our acting CEO and to all the staff who provided her with support. It was a totally local show with no imports to mind the seat in my absence. So congratulations to everyone for supporting Tamie and the Council and meeting the expectations of our operation. Now that the budget is adopted, we are full swing into the New Year with a new budget and new goals to achieve. We have our usual TIDS programme which will commence shortly to finish the Innamincka Road. This is funded 50/50 by Council and TIDS funding and then we will move across to the Quilpie Road to work on sealing the missing links. This programme will be extended over the next three years. We have also submitted an EOI to the Cross Border Authority in NSW who have money available for any work that supports the cross border communities. It was indicated that we may be eligible for a grant to commence sealing the Warri Gate road from the border north toward Noccundra. This will be an interesting scenario if we get the funding because it will be the NSW government funding works on a Qld road. That is a strong argument for our state Government to get on board with our project to seal the Warri Gate completely. For our infrastructure, we will be commencing to put solar panels on all of Council’s assets to reduce our electricity cost. It is also an opportunity for the Bulloo Shire to become the “greenest shire in the west”. We already have solar powering our new Tourist tech installations so this is the logical next step. Also we will follow that with a small geothermal plant to power our cooling towers and help reduce the temperature of our water by 30 degrees. You may have heard on the grapevine that we are preparing a submission to obtain funding for a low care Independent Living complex. This will be a possible 3 stage development that will meet the needs of retirees who wish to stay in Thargomindah and be in a communal supportive environment where we will be able to provide a more centralised medical and wellness service to the residents. It will initially be established next to the 4 existing units with 4 single units and a support building that will contain a Recreation room, a consultation room, an office, a kitchen and a place for ambulance access. This in the future will also support the other stages to come. The benefits of this project is that it will help people to stay in Thargomindah if they have or don’t have any family support and ensure they don’t have to leave the community they have lived in for all their life. It will also increase the argument for additional medical specialist services into the area that everyone will be able to access. Once established, Council sees the opportunity for additional jobs in the area of HACC, cleaners, and maintenance. This is a project that will help sustain our population, if not grow it and help to provide a better wellness environment for the whole town. It’s going to be an exciting year and I can’t wait to get started. Lew Rojahn HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT - managing Council’s most significant resource ……………………... The month of August was an action packed month for Human Resources, starting off with an LGIAsuper Employer Education Session in Roma. During this session, the new changes within superannuation for this financial year were outlined, as well as the exciting news that within the next year, a Local Government Super Hub will be released – with the benefits of this Hub aimed at Council Employees. Employees will be able to use this Hub to interact with LGIAsuper customer service, visit FAQs that are updated regularly depending on relevant issues. Another great benefit of this Hub is that employees can book a Super Health Check Online to make sure that their steps towards having enough funds for retirement are in place. Staff have been treated with a BBQ Lunch once again and during this we saw who needed a new Akubra! Akubra Hats are an Aussie tradition which offers a 50+UPF rating and are made to withstand the brutal Aussie climate. We love that we can provide our staff with the Aussie version of a hat, especially when we add our Bulloo Shire Council logo to it. Jen from LGIAsuper also came out to complete Super Health Checks with Staff and to do an information session on the things that as employees, we can do to ensure that we are going to be set up and are completing the right steps to get to where we want to be in the future. This session was a great success with over half the workshop coming in to improve their retirement. Throughout this session there were so many discussion based questions, that we ended up going over the couple of hours that we had booked in for this session! During the three days that Jen was in Thargomindah, she completed almost 30 superannuation health checks! Thank you to all employees that made Jens’ trip worthwhile. To finish off the month with an exciting event, Lisa Patterson-Kane from Mead Perry Group joined us for some organisational and workforce training which included analysing each individuals personality. Lisa joined our work teams to look at the dynamics of the workforce and to help us understand that everyone is different and everyone needs different techniques to communicate effectively, as well as reinforcing that everyone has different strengths and weaknesses that we can use to make our departments great! Lisa is also a part of Councils’ EAP (Employee Assistance Program) service that provides employees and their immediate family assistance with any problems they may be facing in their day-to-day life. This is a service that is fully paid for by Council in recognition that mental health is something that many individuals deal with, one way or another and it would be wrong for us to ignore the fact that talking to someone can help someone cope with the harsh realities of mental health. Please contact Human Resources if you would like Lisa’s’ number for you or one of your family members to contact her. RURAL LANDS ……………….....….……….....……….………… Council has recently received new Carp-Free signs for installation along the Bulloo & Wilson Rivers and Cooper Creek. This project was started by long time local fisherman and all round environmentalist Andrew (Ferret) Selmes. Ferret came to Council to discuss the importance of keeping our rivers carp free and how we can better educate visitors and our local community about this issue.
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