Local Government Convention 2010, Day One

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Four councillors and the CEO, Peter Bentley attended this years Local Government Convention at the Convention Centre in Perth.

On the Wednesday, Cr Cathy Crosby, Peter Bentley and I attended a meeting of the Great Southern Zone of WALGA where Transport Minister O'Brien responded to questions from the group. One positive from the meeting was a pledge to spend a large sum of money upgrading the Chester Pass Rd.

We then attended an interesting meeting in the evening where a group of councillors from country shires met to express their dissatisfaction at the lack of representation of country shires by WALGA. Three motions were presented, but no one felt they could vote as these had not been discussed at council level.

I, therefore put forward a motion, "That this meeting form a working group to pursue a range of options to improve the representation of country local governments at a State level".

This motion was passed and, since I put the motion forward, I am now on the working group. I will keep my blog updated with the working groups actions.