Council awards funds to 66 community projects

June 27, 2019Posted in: Community
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Kangaloon Hall

Community groups, schools, sports clubs and volunteer organisations are some of the local community groups set to receive crucial funding as part of Council’s 2019/20 Wingecarribee Community Assistance Scheme. A total of sixty six local community projects totalling $127,000 were allocated funding as part of the annual Wingecarribee Community Assistance Scheme. Of the 66 grants...

Council adopts 2019/20 Operational Plan and Budget

June 24, 2019Posted in: Roads and Assets
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Roadworks

Wingecarribee Shire Councillors have adopted the Operational Plan and Budget for the upcoming 2019/20 Financial Year. The draft 2019/20 Operational Plan and Budget generated significant community feedback which resulted in Council amending its funding strategy for its five-year in-principle support of a Regional Art Gallery. “I’m pleased to say that Council listened to the concerns...

Codes of Conduct and Meeting Practice adopted

June 20, 2019Posted in: Community
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Last week Wingecarribee Shire Councillors adopted new Code of Conduct, Procedures for the Administration of the Code of Conduct and Code of Meeting Practice documents. Together these documents detail the minimum ethical and behavioural standards expected of Councillors and Council officials and how future meetings of Council will be conducted. Council’s Group Manager Corporate and...

Council undertakes review of engineering specifications

June 13, 2019Posted in: Development, Roads and Assets
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Wingecarribee Shire Council is reviewing its entire suite of engineering specifications in a bid to provide the local design and construction industry with greater consistency and clarity. The purpose of the project is to ensure that any infrastructure that Council builds, or any infrastructure constructed and transferred to Council by a developer, meets the standards...