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[email protected] Website: www.meekashire.wa.gov.au Shire Presidents Report I am pleased to report another successful year for the Shire of Meekatharra. Our staff and contractors continue to perform to a very high standard whilst managing to maintain full compliance and sound management processes. We are required to comply with the new Integrated Planning regulations and to this end the Council and staff had a very busy year of finalising, reviewing and adopting a number of plans that inform the core plans. These included a review of the Asset Management Plan (Roads) and the Workforce Plan and the adoption of the Airport Asset Management Plan, Revitalisation (Facilities) Plan, an Economic Development Strategy and Brochure and a Tourism Development Strategy 2015 – 2019. Council also approved a $5M program to upgrade and seal a further 20 kilometres of Landor Road. The CEO and staff prepared a comprehensive Business Plan for the this project which was presented to the Mid West Development Commission seeking funding of $3M over three years through the Royalties for Regions Mid West Investment Plan initiative. If successful this will, I believe, be the largest competitive grant in the Shires history. During the year Cr Norm Lyon resigned and an Extraordinary Election was held on Friday 16 January 2015. This was a keenly fought election with seven candidates nominating for Cr Lyon’s position. Dave Hodder was duly elected by a margin of 12 votes.