April 7, 2016
Councillors will have a busy time on Anzac Day, April 25.
Thursday’s post-election meeting voted to adopt a schedule for Dawn Services and Memorial Services around the region.
Cr Gavin Jones will be attending Blackbutt’s Dawn Service at 4:27am, then Maidenwell’s Memorial Service at 10:30am, then returning to Blackbutt for its Memorial Service at 11:00am.
Cr Roz Frohloff will be attending Nanango’s Dawn Service at 5:30am, taking part in the public pilgrimage to Nanango’s war graves at 7:00am, and then the Memorial Service at 9:00am.
Crs Danita Potter and Terry Fleischfresser will both be attending Kingaroy’s Dawn Service at 4:27am and Commemoration Service at 11:00am; and Cr Fleischfresser will also be attending Kumbia’s Commemoration Service at 8:45am.
Cr Ros Heit will be attending Wondai’s Dawn Service at 5:00am; the Memorial Service at Wondai Cemetery at 9:00am; and the Commemoration Service at 10:00am. After this, she will travel to Wooroolin for that town’s Commemoration Service at 11:00am.
Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff will kick off the day at Hivesville’s Dawn Service at 5:30am, followed by Cherbourg’s Commemoration Service at 8:00am, then Murgon’s Commemoration Service at 10:00am, and then a school service at Proston State School.
And Mayor Keith Campbell will be attending Blackbutt’s Dawn Service, Nanango’s Memorial Service and Kingaroy’s Commemoration Service.
Council managers, meanwhile, will attend Dawn Services at Murgon and Proston.
The only service that will be unrepresented is the Bunya Mountains Memorial Service, which will be held at the Lone Pine Office in the Dandabah camping grounds at 8:00am.
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Councillors have voted not to take part in the Pay As You Go system of having tax instalments deducted from their salaries because it would conflict with some Councillors’ private business interests.
At Thursday’s meeting, the option of participating in the PAYG system was put to Councillors.
They were told the advantage of being part of the system was that it would result in Councillors being treated as employees for taxation purposes, which would allow possible salary sacrificing opportunities such as a vehicle.
In return, they would have tax automatically deducted from any salary payments or meeting fees, and any non-cash remuneration would be subject to Fringe Benefit Tax.
If they chose not to take part, tax instalments would not be deducted and they would have to use their own vehicles to carry out their duties. But they would not be classified as employees, so any existing arrangements they have with the ATO would remain in place.
Mayor Keith Campbell told the meeting whatever system Councillors decided on would have to apply to them all.
He said that in discussions prior to the meeting, some Councillors had raised the issue that they had pre-existing arrangements through their private business interests that would cause them difficulty if they were reclassified as employees.
When the matter was put to a vote, Councillors elected not to take part in the PAYG system.
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The Local Government Association of Queensland will ask the State Government to look into why results for the March 19 Council elections took more than two weeks to be declared.
At Thursday’s post-election meeting, Mayor Keith Campbell and Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff were appointed as the region’s LGAQ representatives.
Mayor Campbell told the meeting the delays in declaring results for the recent Council elections had drawn widespread criticism and were not acceptable.
He understood the LGAQ will be approaching the State Government on behalf of all Queensland councils to see how the situation could be fixed.
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The South Burnett Regional Council has appointed delegates to the twenty-four internal and external committees that Councillors sit on.
- Audit Committee – Mayor Keith Campbell and Cr Ros Heit
- Australia Day Awards Judging Panel – Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff, Cr Roz Frohloff and Cr Terry Fleischfresser
- Barker-Barambah Irrigators Advisory Committee – Cr Roz Frohloff
- Blackbutt Pool Committee – Cr Gavin Jones
- Boondooma Homestead Management Advisory Committee – Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff and Cr Ros Heit
- BIEDO – Mayor Keith Campbell and Cr Ros Heit
- Grants and Donations Committee – Cr Danita Potter, Cr Terry Fleischfresser, Cr Ros Heit and Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff
- Healthy Communities Committee – Cr Danita Potter
- Kingaroy Community Police Consultative Committee – Mayor Keith Campbell and Cr Terry Fleischfresser
- Local Disaster Management Committee – Mayor Keith Campbell and Cr Roz Frohloff
- Mayor’s Community Benefit Fund Advisory Committee – Cr Ros Heit
- Murgon Sports Association – Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff
- Reconciliation Action Plan Committee – Mayor Keith Campbell, Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff and Cr Danita Potter
- RADF Advisory Committee – Cr Danita Potter
- South Burnett Community Consultative Committee – Cr Danita Potter
- South Burnett Community Network Committee – Cr Danita Potter
- South Burnett Directions – Mayor Keith Campbell
- South Burnett PCYC Steering Committee – Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff and Cr Roz Frohloff
- Southern Queensland Country Tourism Board – Mayor Keith Campbell
- Tick & Saleyards Committee – Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff
- Traffic Advisory Committee – Mayor Keith Campbell, Cr Gavin Jones and Cr Terry Fleischfresser
- WBBROC – Mayor Keith Campbell and Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff
- Wide Bay Regional Road Transport Group – Mayor Keith Campbell and Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff
- WBB Regional Sport & Recreation Advisory Committee – Cr Roz Frohloff
