Goal - Gannawarra Shire Council

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