Public Notices
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COUNCIL
ADOPTION OF 2023/24
ANNUAL BUDGET AND
FEES & CHARGES
Council at the Ordinary Meeting of Council on Thursday 20 July 2023 adopted its 2023/2024 Annual Budget and 2023/2024 Fees & Charges. This document is available on the Shire of Dumbleyung website:
www.dumbleyung.wa.gov.au/councildocuments
and is also available at the Shire Administration Office, Dumbleyung Library and Kukerin Library.
2023/24 SHIRE INFORMATION BOOKLET
A booklet with all our Shire information for ratepayers and residents in the one stop.
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Get quick reference information on:
* When to pay your rates and how to read your Rates Notice;
* Council meeting dates and useful contacts;
* Bin collection dates;
* Waste Site opening hours and Fees & Charges;
* Firebreak Notice information on permits and fire seasons;
* Ranger details and cat/dog registration information.
SHIRE OF DUMBLEYUNG AWARDED BEST IN CLASS
BY THE OFFICE OF
THE AUDITOR GENERAL FOR THE SECOND YEAR RUNNING
The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) recently released its whole of Local Government audit findings for the 2022-23 financial year.
This report to State Parliament summarises the final results of the OAG’s annual audits of most local governments for the year ended 30th June 2023.
This year’s OAG report also includes a list of the top 20 local government entities in Western Australia achieving ‘best practice’ for 2022-23. This is the second year that this has been awarded.
The Shire of Dumbleyung has been recognised by the OAG as one of these 20 high performing local government authorities for the second year in a row.
OAG Auditor General Caroline Spencer said: ‘Congratulations, we have recognised your entity as one of the 2022-23 best practice entities for timeliness and quality of financial reporting and controls. This achievement acknowledges your entity's performance across a number of criteria including a clear opinion, the timely preparation for audit, high quality financial report and working papers, and maintenance of good financial management controls.’
Shire President Amy Knight said ‘This is awesome recognition on the performance and efforts of Council and the Shire Administrative team. Rated ‘best in class’ alongside some significantly bigger and better resourced metropolitan Shires is not easy and we should all be proud of what we have and continue to achieve within our Shire of Dumbleyung Local Government.’
Shire CEO Gavin Treasure said ‘This is an outstanding achievement for the Shire of Dumbleyung. ‘Our very capable and talented Shire Administration team, professionally led by Danika Watkins our Director of Corporate Services, continues to shine at a Statewide level’.
For further information, please contact Shire of Dumbleyung CEO Gavin Treasure on 98634012
COMMUNITY
GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Shire of Dumbleyung is a subscriber to the Grant Guru portal. This is a one stop shop for anyone interested in checking out private and publicly funded grant opportunities from right across Australia. At present, there are over 1,000 community grants listed with a total value in excess of $64B. There are also over 800 business related grants worth more than $72B. By accessing the following RDA Wheatbelt weblink, any business or community group can sign up (register) to received free email alerts as new grant funding opportunities arise. Please feel free to contact the Shire if anyone requires any additional information or assistance.
AUSGOLD COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM
Ausgold aims to support a range of organisations and groups that support the local community. Members of the community are invited to submit applications for donations or sponsorship (either financial or in-kind) in the categories of Education, Health, Community and Environment.
CBH & WESTERN POWER PRESENTATIONS
The Shire of Dumbleyung and other regional local government representatives received two presentations from both CBH and Western Power at its most recent WALGA Central Country Zone Meeting held in the Shire of Cuballing.
CBH provided an outline of their current strategy and intended investment plan, whilst Western Power provided information around the significant risk issues currently being encountered by rural communities in relation to pole top fires. Further details attached. It was great to see/hear CBH providing an update on their recently completed successful Dumbleyung Terminal upgrades. Dumbleyung Terminal has also been tentatively earmarked by CBH as a site for a new (next) round of fast speed rail loading infrastructure investment, subject to funding.
The pole top fire issues that Western Power are responsible for remain an ongoing concern for our community, however, there was pleasing news on two fronts. The intended reinstatement of line washing using aerial appliances (helicopters) and an ongoing program of replacement insulators utilising less combustible alternatives
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SWIMMING POOL UPDATES
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Vacswim Update
For parents who have enrolled their children into Vacswim at the Dumbleyung Pool, please contact Vacswim directly to enrol your child into a different venue due to the pool being closed.
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TELSTRA UPDATES
With the recent pole-top fires causing power outages and as a result losing any mobile network, we have been approaching Telstra for assistance in resolving the community's network issues.
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If you are experiencing Telstra network issues, please contact Telstra on 13 22 00 to lodge a complaint and also email the Shire at enquiries@dumbleyung.wa.gov.au to be added to our register of complaints that we are compiling to present to Telstra.