I sincerely hope as many residents as possible take up the offer to be a part of our Community Strategic Plan, which will serve as the blueprint for the direction of Narromine Shire.
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Details of the community workshops, to be held from December 6-8, will be advertised and surveys with reply paid envelopes delivered to each household.
This is an opportunity for everyone to have their say on the priorities you want council to adopt for the future.
Please avail yourselves of this opportunity, which only happens every four years. I look forward to seeing as many of our local residents as possible.
On another matter, the appropriate way to request service from council is to phone (02) 6889 9999, email mail@narromine.nsw.gov.au or complete an inquiry form at www.narromine.nsw.gov.au, rather than directly approaching staff.
Council has in place a customer request management system that logs all complaints, compliments or requests.
In this manner, a more efficient and effective service can be provided.
Residents are asked not to approach outdoor staff in the street or at other venues while they are carrying out their duties.
This may present a risk to staff or the public by providing an unnecessary distraction from tasks.
Council is making the most of favourable weather to get stuck into the roadworks so desperately needed in our shire.
We appreciate the patience being shown and the understanding of the magnitude of the job in front of us.
Our efforts will be ramped up as further funding becomes available.
We are so grateful to RMS for the sensible and helpful approach being taken to our requirements. Plans are being advanced in relation to having some real action following our crime meetings.
A facilitator for the first meeting, involving government agencies and other private organisations who have shown an interest, is about to be appointed.
The establishment of a steering committee will follow.
Bearing in mind that although council is the organising body, we have neither a financial nor organising input in the longer term. This is simply beyond our responsibility and resources.
We are endeavouring to bring together programs and funding to accomplish an outcome that reduces juvenile and rural crime while aiming to reduce the real effects of this criminality on the young perpetrators.
It is a proposal full of hope and ambition. But without the appropriate action, these young people will have neither.
And we will be left with a cycle of crime and poverty that is so detrimental to our society.
It is an issue that effects the entire shire and one that deserves the meaningful attention of council.
Craig Davies