
DIRECTORATE - Chief Executive Officer - Paul Sheedy
The primary roles of the Chief Executive Officer are to implement Council policy and be responsible for the overall organisation direction with assistance from the Senior Management team.
Other areas of responsibility include:
- Civic functions
- Citizenships
- Corporate Governance:
- Agenda/minutes
- Secretarial support to Elected Members
- Elected Member relations
- Human Relations (HR)
- Occupational Health & Safety
- Staff recruitment
- Intergovernmental liaison
- Legal compliance
- Local Government reform
- Public Relations
- President liaison
- Regional partnerships
DIRECTORATE - Corporate Services - Phil Anastasakis
Areas of responsibility within Corporate Services include:
- Community Rangers
- Corporate Governance:
- Annual Financial Returns
- Cemeteries - Burials
- Elections
- Insurance
- Local Laws
- Property Leases
- Emergency Services
- Finance:
- Annual report
- Audit
- Budget
- Creditors
- Debtors
- Rates
- Information Technology
- Integrated Planning
- Reception/Customer Service
- Records Management
- Strategic Financial Planning
DIRECTORATE - Community Services - Michelle Plume
Areas of responsibility within Community Services include:
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Community Newsletters
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Community Safety and Crime Prevention
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Disability Access & Inclusion
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Events Assistance
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Home and Community Care
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Libraries
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Neighbourhood Watch
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Recreation
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Seniors
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Shire Community Grants Scheme
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Tourism
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Youth
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Volunteers Support

DIRECTORATE - Health Services - Colin Dent
Areas of responsibility within Health Services include:
- Climate Change
- Environmental (Community health, noise, dust)
- Events Management Plans/Approvals
- Food Premises Inspections
- Kerbside Waste Collections
- Mosquito Management
- Noise Monitoring
- Pest Control
- Public Risk Management
- Recycling Services
- Water Testing/Sampling
DIRECTORATE - Planning & Development Services - Chris Burwood
Areas of responsibility within Planning & Development Services include:
- Building Approvals and Compliance
- Heritage
- Rural Street Numbering
- Strategic Land Use Planning
- Swimming Pools
- Town Planning:
- Development applications
- Home occupations
- Scheme amendments
- Subdivisions
- Strata applications
- Urban landscape
- Town Planning Compliance
DIRECTORATE - Engineering and Operations - Wayne Butler
Areas of responsibility within Engineering and Operations include:
- Bridges
- Buildings
- Cemeteries - maintenance & grave digging
- Coastal Facilities
- Drainage
- Dual Use Paths
- Fleet Management
- Extractive Industries (licensing & management)
- Natural Resource Land Management
- Parks, Ovals and Reserves
- Playgrounds
- Roads
- Subdivision Engineering Approval and Compliance
- Townscape
- Trails
- Verge & Crossovers
- Waste Management