April 17, 2020
Mayor-elect Brett Otto says he is very impressed with the team he is going to work with at the South Burnett Regional Council.
Mr Otto and his fellow South Burnett councillors have been doing induction training since Wednesday.
He told southburnett.com.au on Friday evening he was very impressed with CEO Mark Pitt and Council staff and the way they had organised the training.
He had spoken to other mayors and he didn’t think any of the other councils were as organised as the South Burnett had been.
Mayor-elect Otto and the rest of the recently elected councillors will be officially sworn into office on Monday morning.
Mr Otto said he had sent a strong message to all Council staff this week that they should not feel nervous about their jobs and there would be no radical changes.
He believed he had a really good team of councillors and together they would achieve “some really good stuff”.
“I am going to deliver on the things I talked about before the election. I am very committed about that,” he said.
Total backflip in regard to council jobs as he stated at his Wondai meeting that the council was top heavy and that jobs would go.
I hope Brett Otto can finally make the other councillors and staff see the good economic and conservation sense in supporting Bunya Mountains Dark Sky Park and not continuing to be the only local government in the world apart from Western Downs Regional Council not supporting an international dark sky designation in their area. Enconomic development and not economic stagnation is what the region needs.