South Burnett councillors are going to be kept even busier – and wearing more hats – following the creation of five new portfolios at today’s Council meeting.
Mayor Wayne Kratzmann also announced a re-shuffle of the original 10 portfolios created after the 2012 council election.
The new portfolios created today are:
- Communities
- Information Technology
- Property
- Sport and Recreation, and…
- Indigenous Affairs
They’ll join the SBRC’s existing 10 portfolios:
- Governance
- Economic Development and Tourism
- Finance
- Roads
- Water and Wastewater
- Planning
- Waste
- Art, Culture and Heritage
- Natural Resource Management
- Parks and Environment
Mayor Kratzmann will continue to chair the Governance and Economic Development & Tourism portfolios, while Deputy Mayor Keith Campbell will continue to chair Finance and take on the new Communities portfolio.
Cr Damien Tessmann will drive the Roads portfolio, while Cr Debra Palmer will move out of Arts, Culture and Heritage to take on two completely new portfolios: Property and Information Technology.
Cr Barry Green will continue as chair of Water and Wastewater, and also take on leadership of the newly created Sport and Recreation portfolio.
Cr Cheryl Dalton will retain the Planning and Waste portfolios, and resume her former role as head of Arts, Culture and Heritage.
Cr Kathy Duff will continue her role as chair of the Natural Resources Management and Parks Environment portfolios, and also take on the new Indigenous Affairs portfolio.
Cr Kratzmann said the reallocation of some existing portfolios and the introduction of new ones was simply a case of “fine tuning” a system that was “working very well”.
He said the new portfolios recognised there were some areas of Council’s operations that merited more specialised attention.
The pottfolio changes also affect which councillors will represent the SBRC on internal and external committees:
Internal Committees
- Healthy Communities Management Advisory Committee – Cr Keith Campbell (chair)
- Local Disaster Management Committee – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann (chair) and Cr Keith Campbell
- Boondooma Homestead Management Advisory Committee – Cr Kathy Duff (chair) and Cr Keith Campbell
- Audit Committee – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann (chair) and Cr Keith Campbell
- Traffic Advisory Committee – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann (chair), Cr Kathy Duff and Cr Damien Tessmann
- Enhancing Passenger Transport Steering Committee – Cr Damien Tessmann
- Arts, Culture & Heritage Advisory Committee – Cr Cheryl Dalton (chair)
- Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group – Cr Kathy Duff
- Grants & Donations Committee – Cr Keith Campbell (chair), Cr Kathy Duff and Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
External Committees
- Southern Queensland Country Tourism Board – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
- South Burnett Tourism Association – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
- Wide Bay-Burnett Regional Organisation Of Councils – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
- Health Consultative Committee – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
- Wide Bay Regional Sport and Recreation Committee – Cr Barry Green
- Wide Bay Burnett Regional Road Group – Cr Damien Tessmann
- Burnett Inland Economic Development Organisation – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
- Kingaroy Community Police Consultative Committee – Cr Keith Campbell
- South Burnett PCYC Steering Committee – Cr Barry Green and Cr Kathy Duff
- CROW-FM Community Radio Station – Cr Kathy Duff
- Kingaroy Chamber Of Commerce Inc – Mayor Wayne Kratzmann
- South Burnett Community Network Committee – Cr Keith Campbell
- Perfoming Arts Complex Committee – Cr Cheryl Dalton
- Tick & Sale Yards Committee – Cr Kathy Duff
- Blackbutt Pool Committee – Cr Barry Green
- Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Steering Committee – Cr Barry Green and Cr Deb Palmer
- Barker Barambah Irrigators Advisory Committee – Cr Barry Green
- Regional Animal Advisory Committee – Cr Kathy Duff
