PO BOX 19, KATHERINE, NT, 0851

Randazzo Building,

Katherine Terrace, Katherine, NT,

Phone: 8972 0777

Fax: 89710 856

Website: www.victoriadaly.nt.gov.au

POSITIONS VACANT

Shire Service Manager—Daguragu

Sport & Recreation Coordinator—Head Office

Sport & Recreation Officer—Timber Creek

Night Patrol Field Officer—Head Office

For a copy of the Job Description please see your Shire

Service Manager or call Trudy Braun on 8972 0705. Victoria Daly Shire Council—Respect, Integrity,

Equality & Progressive.

“Moving Forward Together.”

www.victoriadaly.nt.gov.au

Vic Daly’s Worlds Greatest Shave Victoria Daly Staff and Family entered into this years Worlds Greatest Shave, Frank under went the clippers back in March and managed to raise $1026.00. Leigh and his family had their shave in April raising $1800.00. A big thank you to all those people who do-nated money and time for these 2 events and a special thanks to Nat and Ricky at Reflec-tions Hair Profession-als.

Frank Mills before and after

Leigh Kariko and his wife

gional workshop in late

May for final consultation.

Every staff member will

then receive a copy for at

least 7 days prior to the

vote. All staff should take

an interest as the agree-

ment is passed if there is a

majority of those that vote.

For example if only 70

people vote then we only

need 36 votes. I would

much prefer all staff under-

stand and vote so it truly

represents our work place.

During workplace negotia-

tions there are often ru-

mors, I would encourage

anyone to email or phone

me if they have any ques-

tions.

Dear All

I hope you all had a great

Easter break as another

month passes and we

see more signs of Victo-

ria Daly becoming a

whole organisation. The

regional office has finally

opened and now all staff

can be found in one

place. Councilors held

their first council meeting

in the new space and

everyone was impressed

with the cappuccino ma-

chine. The uniforms

have started to arrive and

I think provide enough

choice but look very cor-

porate. The new signage

is making its way to of-

fices and shire bounda-

ries and many vehicles

can now be identified as

councils. These small

achievements all help

develop the profile of the

shire. The workplace

collective agreement has

been discussed with

council and unions.

Most of the content has

been agreed with and

some more work to be

undertaken on remote

allowances and annual-

ising any shift payments.

It is hoped we have the

final draft document by

early May. I will then

visit every community to

explain the proposed

content. I have also in-

vited the unions to at-

tend. I would then re-

quest each community

elects a staff representa-

tive to attend the re-

Welcome to all Councilors and Staff to the April News Letter. Already the fourth month is upon us. April has been very dry here in Timber Creek. I still think that there is more rain to come. I travelled to Kalkarindji, dis-cussed the formation of a Lo-cal Community Board, 26 names were submitted this application will go before the Council on the 7th for ap-proval. Welcome to Dave Hewitt the new Shire Service Manager Palumpa. Flew into

Port Keats with 2 members of Local Government, Rose, Mark and I to discuss creation of a Local Community Board, Rose gave the Councilors training with the computer and mobile phones I had discus-sions with the Councilors. I attended the LGANT meet-ing held in the Darwin Council complex. Ray Woolridge was re elected as Vice President(Shires), Tony Jack (Mayor Roper Gulf) was elected as an executive member. I extend my thanks to you all

for putting up with the hardships of having to work out different offices you will not know your-selves now that you are in the new office complex. Don't over use the new coffee making ma-chine. Now that the roads are drying out expect to see more of me in your Communities. I am always avail-able to listen to any thing you wish to talk about. Regards to all Mayor Don Wegener

Mayor Don Wegener

Message From Our CEO

I NS I DE TH IS

I SSUE :

Grants & Fund-

ing

2

Head Office

Move

3

CDEP Update 3

Training & De-

velopment

3

From our Mayor

Victoria Daly

Shire Council

Staff Newsletter A P R I L 2 0 0 9 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 8

Positions Va-

cant & Contacts

4

Worlds Great-

est Shave

4

P A G E 2

Gra

nts

& F

undin

g

The Victoria Daly Shire has recently secured more than $4,000,000 in grants for capital works.

Funding towards capital improvements in the Shire includes: $728,000 for security measures at Port Keats Airport from the Re-gional Airports Funding program, Australian Airports Association. $2,693,000 from the Federal Government ‘Roads to Recovery’ pro-gram (over 5 years) towards the upgrade and repair of the local roads. $271,000 under the Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program (RLCIP) the Australian Government towards: New Steam Display Pine Creek $90,000 Park for exhibition of the steam display and the relocation of those ex-hibits from their current location Nackeroo Lookout Area Upgrade, Timber Creek $110,000 Upgrade of the Nackeroo Lookout area, including construction of ablu-tion facilities, commission and installation of interpretive signage and signage to minimise environmental damage. Refurbishment of Family Centre Kitchen, Kalkarindji $71,000 $385,000 from Urban Enhancement Program, Infrastructure Strat-egy Unit, Department of Planning and Infrastructure, Northern Ter-ritory Government. Projects: Wadeye Main Street Development Funding Amount $275,000 • Landscape, install playground equipment to Lot 537 at Manthape subdivision • Construct a new park and playground to the Nilihn subdivision • Construct a small area for a playground area in Jogmin Street near Lots 401 & 402 • Construct new park area in Yemelgum Street Landscape area around Council office and park furniture to main street Pine Creek Beautification Funding Amount $110,000 • Continue extension of recycle water irrigation main to irrigate the water garden area • Landscape area in Main Terrace to include Steam Museum Additional park furniture to Main Terrace

V I C T O R I A D A L Y S H I R E C O U N C I L

Head Office Altogether

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 8

All of Victoria Daly Shire Head office staff moved into the long awaited new head office on Friday 20th March. The official opening took place on the 6th April with head office being opened by Mayor Wegener. Head Office is now located in the Ran-dazzo Building under ICC.

More training taking took place at Wadeye and Timber Creek and their Night Patrol Teams and Senior First Aid Officers. Jill Wallaby, Sharon Darby, Ruth Darby and Christine Daly from Yarralin completed their Certificate II Community Services. More TechOne Training took place with Marishty Lalim doing rates training. Terri and Trudy went to Darwin and spent some time with the Darwin City Council and learnt the new Job Evaluation System. Ray Mehinnit completed his First Aid Trainers Certificate with the Royal Life Saving Australia and is now able to deliver First Aid training for shire staff.

changes to CDEP commencing on 01.07.2009. I urge every CDEP Participant, Supervisor, Team Leader and Coordinator to attend these sessions when they are held in your community. There are some changes to CDEP that will affect everyone and it is in your best inter-est to attend these sessions and lis-ten to what they have to say. The Esub tender process for CDEP for the period 01.07.2009 to 30.06.2012 has been completed and is currently under consideration by ICC the relevant funding body. As soon as we receive a decision from ICC, on our application I will advise you of our involvement with CDEP for that period. It is pleasing to see the roll out of uniforms happening in our commu-

nities for CDEP participants and I urge anyone who has not yet applied for a uniform to see their Team Leader or Coordinator and get your orders in as soon as possible. With the dry season well upon us, I will be travelling extensively throughout our communities from now on and look forward to viewing first hand some of the exciting pro-jects currently underway. If anyone has any questions about CDEP when I am in your community please make yourself known to me and I will be able to help you out. Until then stay safe and enjoy your work and partici-pation in the CDEP program. Regards Frank Mills CDEP Regional Manager

Welcome to another addition of the VDSC Newsletter. CDEP is continuing to grow within Victo-ria Daly Shire Council and we currently have our highest number of participants ever. At the pre-sent time we have over 460 par-ticipants with the number growing every day, certainly a very busy time for the Community Team Leaders, Coordinators and Super-visors especially at Wadeye where their number exceeds 200. As you will be aware, ICC, the funding body for the CDEP Pro-gram are currently holding Com-munity Information Sessions where they are announcing the

CDEP UPDATE

Training & Development

Greg helps Rose move his desk,

while Trevor watches on…..

A big thumbs up from Trevor

Terri not sure what she is doing

…. Regular occurrence

Greg allocates the work Shelley from Finance