Mayor's Message - YOUR INDIGO

Published on 20 December 2024

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Hello everyone,

Today’s edition of YOUR INDIGO will be the final for 2024, and I want to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a safe and happy Christmas and thank you for being one of our valued subscribers.

As a small Council with limited resources, we rely heavily on this weekly e-newsletter to keep you informed of what’s happening in and around the Shire.

We appreciate that not everyone subscribes, and we acknowledge that many within our community are without email or internet access, and to some extent, we are relying on you to help share this information with family and friends.

Among the benefits of digital communications is the immediacy of being able to share information, particularly in times of emergencies. Printed brochures and flyers are no longer efficient or cost effective and are out of date the minute they are printed.

In the new year, we will explore more options to improve our communications and community engagement and for our Councillors to meet with you face to face. We recently attended local farmers and community markers as part of our engagement on the new Council Plan, and I found this a really effective way to chat with community members in an informal way.

As of 5pm today, we are closing the current engagement on the Council Plan and in the new year we will compile the survey results and take a close look at what we heard from everyone who participated. So far, we’ve received 270 survey responses, close to 40 pins dropped on the ideas map and 108 ideas shared to the ideas board.

We are very grateful to everyone who took the time to provide feedback and share ideas. The Council Plan is such an important body of work and will set the scene for the new Council over its four-year term. Once we have a draft document prepared, we will again be seeking community input to ensure that it reflects what we heard are the priority areas you want us to focus on.

We will also use this feedback to help inform our next budget and again there will be opportunity to review this before its adopted by Council in June next year.

For now, I will sign-off for 2024 and I look forward to working with our community in 2025.

Take care.

Cr Sophie Price.