Gannawarra Annual Report 2011 - Gannawarra Shire Council
Gannawarra Annual Report 2011 - Gannawarra Shire Council
Gannawarra Annual Report 2011 - Gannawarra Shire Council
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4<br />
YEAR IN REVIEW<br />
JULY 2010<br />
• Additional funding is announced<br />
under the Regional and Local<br />
Community Infrastructure<br />
Program and funding is sought for<br />
<strong>Shire</strong> projects to the value of<br />
$175,000.<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
• <strong>Gannawarra</strong> Aged and Disability<br />
Network changes its name to the<br />
<strong>Gannawarra</strong> Health and Wellbeing<br />
network, including a Mental<br />
Health focus.<br />
• Children’s Book Week sees<br />
more than 670 children visit<br />
<strong>Gannawarra</strong> libraries.<br />
SEPTEMBER 2010<br />
• Wireless internet is connected to<br />
the <strong>Gannawarra</strong> Library Service.<br />
• <strong>Gannawarra</strong> <strong>Shire</strong> experiences<br />
the first of three flood events in<br />
2010/<strong>2011</strong>. The Murray, Loddon<br />
and Avoca Rivers are running at<br />
various stages of near and above<br />
capacity. The latter two have<br />
caused flooding and some road<br />
closures.<br />
• Information packs are prepared<br />
and distributed to each child<br />
attending local kindergartens to<br />
reinforce the need for<br />
immunisation at 4 years of age.<br />
OCTOBER 2010<br />
• <strong>Council</strong> secures more than<br />
$264,000 Tracks and Trails<br />
funding from the State<br />
Government for the development<br />
of walking trails as part of a<br />
$350,000 walking trails project<br />
throughout the <strong>Shire</strong>.<br />
• Volunteers celebrate 40 years of<br />
delivering Meals on Wheels in<br />
Kerang.<br />
GANNAWARRA SHIRE COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT <strong>2011</strong><br />
• The <strong>Shire</strong> is granted a new<br />
licence from the Department of<br />
Early Education and Community<br />
Development to operate a Family<br />
Day Care Service.<br />
• <strong>Gannawarra</strong> partners with the<br />
Murray River Group of <strong>Council</strong>s<br />
(MRGC) and Greater Shepparton<br />
<strong>Council</strong> to prepare a structured<br />
and co-ordinated response to the<br />
Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin<br />
Plan. The focus of the campaign is<br />
that while the health of the<br />
environment is a valid concern,<br />
the Federal Government must<br />
ensure that the futures of farmers,<br />
families and communities are<br />
genuinely considered.<br />
• Ongoing flooding causes an<br />
increase in mosquito breeding<br />
as the Department of Health<br />
recommends that <strong>Council</strong><br />
commences its annual mosquito<br />
monitoring and control program<br />
a month earlier than usual.<br />
Surveillance and control of<br />
mosquito breeding commences<br />
over an area of 600 hectares of<br />
inundated swamplands and<br />
stagnant pools of water left by<br />
rising rivers and local rainfall.<br />
Messages to the community<br />
commence around the need to<br />
protect themselves from being<br />
bitten by mosquitoes and to<br />
reduce mosquito breeding around<br />
private properties.<br />
NOVEMBER 2010<br />
• The first anniversary of cooking<br />
classes conducted in partnership<br />
between the GSC Community<br />
Care Service and Kerang<br />
Aboriginal Community Centre is<br />
celebrated.<br />
• <strong>Council</strong> continues to work with<br />
lead agency DPI, MAV consultants<br />
and other municipalities as<br />
Australian plague locusts start to<br />
band in the Quambatook area.<br />
<strong>Council</strong> has 141 reports of plague<br />
locusts on roadsides. The<br />
Department of Primary Industries<br />
(DPI) is advising that the plague<br />
will be the worst in 75 years.<br />
• The second flood event of 2010<br />
hits the <strong>Shire</strong>, bigger than the first<br />
in September.<br />
• <strong>Council</strong> adopts the updated<br />
version of the Municipal<br />
Emergency Management Plan.<br />
• Preparations for the unsealed road<br />
trials progress. Scientific advice is<br />
provided by the ARRB Group<br />
(formerly the Australian Road<br />
Research Board).<br />
• An interactive display on <strong>Council</strong>’s<br />
mosquito monitoring and control<br />
program is provided as part of the<br />
<strong>Council</strong> Open Day held on<br />
November 5, 2010. The display<br />
and presentation includes detail<br />
on the lifecycle of a mosquito<br />
using real life specimens along<br />
with explanation of the potential<br />
for mosquitoes to transmit of a<br />
range of diseases to humans.<br />
DECEMBER 2010<br />
• <strong>Gannawarra</strong> <strong>Shire</strong> Youth Strategy<br />
2010 – 2014 is adopted by<br />
<strong>Council</strong>.<br />
• Results from a survey of 100 clients<br />
attending <strong>Council</strong> immunisation<br />
sessions over a three month period<br />
reveal 100 percent satisfaction with<br />
the service provided.<br />
• Submissions are made on the<br />
Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin<br />
Plan to the Federal House of<br />
Representatives Inquiry on the<br />
Impact of Murray-Darling Basin<br />
Plan in Regional Australia, and to<br />
the Senate Inquiry into the<br />
Management of the Murray-<br />
Darling Basin.