Mayor Asks For Fines To Be Waived
Gympie Mayor Mick Curran has asked Local Government Minister Jackie Trad to waive fines which will be levied on 2082 Gympie Regional Council residents who failed to vote in the February Mayoral by-election.
Gympie Mayor Mick Curran has asked Local Government Minister Jackie Trad to waive fines which will be levied on 2082 Gympie Regional Council residents who failed to vote in the February Mayoral by-election.
The North Burnett Regional Council brought down its 2015-2016 Budget today, handing down a 4.2 per cent general rate increase.
Wheatlands State School got a $5000 bonus to finish the financial year on Tuesday
A successful tenderer for the Blackbutt supermarket development is expected to be announced within the next few months.
The South Burnett Private Hospital closed it doors for the last time as a Pulse Health-run facility on Tuesday afternoon, but South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann still hopes it won’t be forever.
South Burnett ratepayers will face a 2.75 per cent rate rise from July 1 following the handing down of Council’s 2015-2016 Budget by Mayor Wayne Kratzmann this morning.
BIEDO CEO Carmel Summers said today she was optimistic the economic development organisation would access funding to continue its work in the North and South Burnett areas.
A new housing estate being built at Cherbourg will not only help ease overcrowding in the town – it will also bring many other benefits by the time it is finished in three years.
A decision by the Federal Government last November to reintroduce fuel excise indexation will cost South Burnett drivers more money at the bowser.
The South Burnett and neighbouring areas will get eight new mobile towers to help remove black spots, thanks to a joint Commonwealth-State Government program.
Gympie Regional Council’s 2015-16 Budget has delivered the smallest rate increase in the Council’s seven year history.
Fees and charges levied by the South Burnett Regional Council will rise by an average of 2.5 per cent from July 1.
A report by accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which claims Nanango has experienced the sharpest drop in economic output of any town or region in Australia has been questioned by South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann.
South Burnett CTC’s Heritage Lodge accommodation project in Nanango is one step closer following the signing of a building contract last week.
Toowoomba ratepayers will face a 3 per cent rate rise – but no increase in water charges – after Toowoomba Regional Council handed down its 2015-16 Budget today.
Mayor Wayne Kratzmann wants to see the Big Screen Film Festival return to the South Burnett next year to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
There were smiles, tears and hugs on Wednesday as Cherbourg Council bade farewell to journalist Marcus Priaulx and marked the end of the successful Barambah PaCE (Parental and Community Engagement) educational program.
The Federal Government’s free trade deals may open up business opportunities for the South Burnett
Many councils will be forced to consider cutting back essential community services as a result of the 2014-15 Federal Budget’s three-year freeze on indexation of Financial Assistance Grants (FAGs), Mayor Troy Pickard warned today.
Toowoomba Regional Council has approved a three-year extension to an economic policy designed to boost growth in Yarraman and 16 other regional townships.