MOUNT ISA NEWS September 2020 Your community newsletter MountAwarded no. 2 in Australia Isa for stargazing! - Tourism Australia Phone 07 4747 3200 | email
[email protected] | www.mountisa.qld.gov.au | www.facebook.com/MountIsaCityCouncil/ MAYOR’S DESK... I am pleased to welcome and introduce our new Interim Chief Executive Officer, David Keenan, to Mount Isa City Council. David started at Council on Monday September 28, with a handover period in place until CEO Sharon Ibardolaza’s last day on Friday, October 9. In the past few months, Sharon has done an amazing job leading Council's COVID-19 Response Group, the decisions of which have kept community members and Council staff members safe. She has also been in regular communication with Councils regularly recalculate the rate-in-the-dollar the District Disaster Management Group, amount they use to calculate how much they Queensland Health and State Disaster Coordination collect in rates in any given year. Centre, to ensure the response group's decisions are based on the most up-to-date advice and It’s important to remember that councils do not information. base their revenue from property revaluations – they collect the amount determined in their On behalf of Council staff and elected members, budgets. we wish Sharon the very best as she begins a new chapter of her career in Brisbane. In this financial year’s Budget, we implemented a zero overall residential rate increase, in recognition David was previously CEO at Southern Downs of the challenges many people are facing during Regional Council and has more than 25 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.