By the time you read this I understand that Orange City Council’s proposed budget for 2020 – 2021 will have been considered by the Council meeting on 21st April 2020 for approval to go on exhibition for community comment.
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I recently interviewed Rebecca Ryan, the General Manager of Blayney Shire Council, and we talked about leadership in times of uncertainty.
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I met with Blayney Shire’s General Manager, Rebecca Ryan, in her office in Blayney and we immediately started talking about leadership in times of uncertainty
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In last week’s column I wrote about the Council’s second quarter progress report and said I would look at the financial quarterly review.
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Over recent months through this column, I have received quite a lot of feedback. It seems that people have enjoyed what I have had to say while also discovering some of the inner workings of Council.
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Council Annual Reports have recently been published. They contain a wealth of information, and I will write a few columns about what they tell us about our councils as part of the series – How to Get the Best Out of Our Councils.
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David Waddell became Orange City Council’s Chief Executive Officer in September 2019 and I asked him if he would set out his vision for Orange City, which he was pleased to do.
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about What is Good Governance? I advise on good governance in my business and it has become good practice to evaluate the performance of a Board at least every two years.
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At the Orange City Council meeting on Tuesday 19th November the issue of Councillor attendance was discussed
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Good governance, in local government, occurs when a local council governs for an on behalf of its local community and the wider public as assessed according to certain KEY CRITERIA.
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Among the business papers for the Orange City Council meeting on Thursday 7th November was the Quarterly Budget Review and Performance Indicators - Quarter 1 of 2019/20.
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Rescinding or Altering Council decisions
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Orange’s current water situation was a topic of discussion at last week’s Council meeting. One Councillor mentioned that a lot of people in the community were unclear as to what the real situation is, and also what Level 5 Water Restrictions actually require of people
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Are Community Committees a good thing or a bad thing?
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The role of General Manager of a Council in NSW is a difficult juggling act of keeping a majority of Councillors satisfied, as I know from my time as General Manager of Hay Shire Council where my contract was terminated immediately after I informed Council that I had made a Protected Interest Disclosure about corruption
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The roles and responsibilities of the Mayor, Councillors and the General Manager were clarified in changes to the Local Government Act in 2016. This column looks at the roles and responsibilities of Councillors.
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Roles and Responsibilities – The Mayor
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In last week’s column I said that I would write about community engagement and accountability. I should have said ‘touch on’ the subjects as they are large topics and I will come back to them and cover them at different times as they have a season to them.
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I love local government and have spent most of my life working in councils in NSW and the north of England and want to see our councils be the best they can be.
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Defying the critics; Orange has the look of a boomtown at the moment with the amount of construction work underway in the city
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