Goal - Gannawarra Shire Council
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CR OSCAR AERTSSEN<br />
Murray Ward<br />
First elected: 2005<br />
Portfolio/<strong>Council</strong> delegate:<br />
• Assets and Infrastructure Portfolio<br />
– Asset Naming Committee<br />
– Mystic Park Cemetery Trust<br />
– Wakool/<strong>Gannawarra</strong> Planning<br />
and Resources Committee<br />
• Community Portfolio<br />
– Youth <strong>Council</strong> Mentor<br />
– Municipal Fire Prevention<br />
Committee<br />
• Economic Prosperity Portfolio<br />
• Finance and Corporate Portfolio<br />
– Municipal Association of Victoria<br />
(MAV)<br />
Cr Oscar Aertssen served as a<br />
member of the Victoria Police Force<br />
for 37 years before retiring in 2009.<br />
He is dedicated to developing and<br />
empowering communities to reach<br />
their potential. He is active in the<br />
community and is a graduate of the<br />
Loddon Murray Community<br />
Leadership Program. Cr Aertssen<br />
was elected as Deputy Mayor<br />
in 2007 and 2008.<br />
GANNAWARRA SHIRE ANNUAL REPORT 2011<br />
CR LUI BASILE<br />
Patchell Ward<br />
First elected: 2003<br />
Portfolio/<strong>Council</strong> delegate:<br />
• Community Portfolio<br />
• Assets and Infrastructure Portfolio<br />
– Asset Naming Committee<br />
– Mystic Park Cemetery Trust<br />
• Economic Prosperity Portfolio<br />
– businessKERANG (as observer)<br />
• Sustainability Portfolio<br />
– Treasurer, Murray-Darling<br />
Association<br />
– Member, Region 3, Murray-<br />
Darling Association<br />
– MAV Environment Advisory<br />
Group<br />
• Finance and Corporate Portfolio<br />
– <strong>Council</strong>’s Internal Audit<br />
Committee<br />
– Municipal Association of<br />
Victoria (MAV) Northwest<br />
Municipalities Association<br />
Cr Lui Basile served <strong>Gannawarra</strong> <strong>Shire</strong><br />
for three terms as Mayor before<br />
deciding in December 2006 not to<br />
stand for a fourth term. He has<br />
extensive local government<br />
experience, having previously served<br />
eleven years on the former Borough of<br />
Kerang <strong>Council</strong>. Cr Basile is a<br />
practising solicitor and has held Board<br />
positions with Lower Murray Water<br />
and the former Kerang Water Board<br />
and Sewerage Authority. He continues<br />
to be a very active and dedicated<br />
member of <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
CR NEIL GANNON<br />
Avoca Ward<br />
First elected: 2008<br />
Portfolio/<strong>Council</strong> delegate:<br />
• Assets and Infrastructure Portfolio<br />
– Asset Naming Committee<br />
– Mystic Park Cemetery Trust<br />
– Wakool/<strong>Gannawarra</strong> Planning<br />
and Resources Committee<br />
– Rail Alliance Committee<br />
• Finance and Corporate Portfolio<br />
– Municipal Association of<br />
Victoria (MAV) Northwest<br />
Municipalities Association<br />
– Internal Audit Committee<br />
Cr Neil Gannon served his<br />
apprenticeship as a motor mechanic<br />
specialising in diesel engineering. On<br />
completing his apprenticeship he was<br />
employed by Massey Ferguson as a<br />
Specialist Tractor Service<br />
Representative. After a number of<br />
years with Massey Ferguson Cr<br />
Gannon left the company to establish<br />
his own successful specialised diesel<br />
engineering business. He later sold<br />
this business and entered the hotel<br />
industry, an industry in which he was<br />
involved for 20 years, the last fourteen<br />
of them at the Mystic Park Hotel. Cr<br />
Gannon then sold the hotel and<br />
bought into a packaged ice<br />
manufacturing and distribution<br />
business in Swan Hill, a business he<br />
operated until his retirement in 2003.<br />
In that same year, Cr Gannon was<br />
invited to take up the post as<br />
Executive Officer for the Packaged Ice<br />
Association of Australasia Inc, a<br />
position he continues to hold. Cr<br />
Gannon is also a member of New<br />
South Wales Food Authority Steering<br />
Group.