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Deputy Mayor Cr Geoff McDonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 19, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Toowoomba Regional Council is boasting that it spent a record $204 million with local businesses during the past financial year.<\/p>\n

It is the second year in a row that TRC has spent more than $200 million locally.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Cr Geoff McDonald said the figures reflected a change in strategic direction two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past two years we\u2019ve set a record for local supplier spend within the Toowoomba Region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look back to 2012 when our local spend was $56,072,000 and you compare it to this year\u2019s figure of $204,174,000, the difference is truly remarkable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Council had steadily been working on increasing its local spend since 2012, it was the changes made two years ago which has led to this record spend.<\/p>\n

\u201cCouncil made permanent changes to its procurement policy, which resulted in an increase to the weighting for local suppliers, as well as extra weighting for local suppliers in regional areas (all areas inside the Toowoomba Region boundary that are outside of the Toowoomba City).<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing those changes we saw our local spend climb from 57 per cent n 2019-20 through to 64 per cent and 63 per cent the next two years which is a great result for our community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re committed to supporting our local community and will continue to look for further opportunities to spend locally over the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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