{"id":20055,"date":"2013-01-07T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2020-09-30T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:08:37","slug":"nominations-sought-for-sb-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/01\/07\/nominations-sought-for-sb-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations Sought For SB Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 7, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Burnett Deputy Mayor Keith Campbell will head up a committee to select the members for the new South Burnett Directions Steering Committee.<\/p>\n

South Burnett Regional Council has unanimously supported the formation of the peak business committee following community meetings in Nanango and Murgon before Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback from businesses in the community has been that they strongly support the development of South Burnett Directions, which will be a project-based committee to steer economic development throughout the South Burnett,\u201d Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an opportunity for all organisations throughout the South Burnett to come together and lobby the State and Federal Government sas one group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next step will be to establish a committee led by the Deputy Mayor Keith Campbell to select suitably qualified people to form the South Burnett Directions Steering Committee.”<\/p>\n

Cr Campbell said council had consulted with the business community.<\/p>\n

“There was strong support to establish and develop the organisation and start a \u2018Think Local First\u2019 campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback from the community was that the selection of the steering committee members be based upon skills rather than location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be calling for interested people to apply by January 21 to be part of this very important committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann said he had originally supported the idea that the committee be formed from people spread throughout the Burnett.<\/p>\n

“(But) after listening to the feedback from business owners we will choose the committee based on skills that would assist the chosen projects rather than geographic location,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Think Local First\u2019 campaign would be one of the first projects that South Burnett Directions would steer. The rest of the projects would be prioritised by South Burnett Directions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe collected ideas from the community consultation sessions. The committee will be responsible for prioritising projects and decide upon which they believe will best support economic development in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n