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Cr Nick Angelo raises solution to area’s poor service SINCE October 2024 I have attended many council and community meetings across Loddon Shire. From the Rheola Easter carnival, Cork and Fork at Newbridge and Eddington sprints, Anzac and...
Cr Nick Angelo raises solutionto area’s poor service
SINCE October 2024 I have attended many council and community meetings across Loddon Shire.
From the Rheola Easter carnival, Cork and Fork at Newbridge and Eddington sprints, Anzac and Australia Day services, these events have allowed me to meet and chat with so many people.
I am getting to hear first-hand the things that you would like to see council doing.
There are lots of issues and challenges for us to work on, so please keep emailing and calling me to let me know what is keeping you awake!
Myself, the Mayor and CEO had the pleasure of a tour of Bio Grow last month seeing first hand the upgrades that have been done to this site and the progress they have made
Last month myself and other councillors from Loddon shire as well as our CEO attended the national general assembly of the Australian Local Government Association in Canberra.
This was an eye-opening experience I am so glad I had the chance to attend.
At the congress, mayors, shire presidents and councillors come together and consider the big issues hitting our communities as well as putting forward motions from different shires , with Loddon shire putting forward seven motions, all of which were successful.
These decisions form the basis of what the local government association will advocate for us over the next 12 months.
At the assembly there were plenty of presentations on land , housing and road infrastructure.
I was also able to talk with Telstra and NBN in regards to teaming up and using dual purpose towers for both nbn and Telstra to help speed up services in rural areas for better coverage and lower cost and both were open to the idea.
I will continue to talk to both organisations on this.
Other interesting presenters and displays included recycling solutions, a really interesting presentation on how trees in streetscapes need to be planted to ensure they get enough water and displays on the latest council equipment.
As many of you will know I stood for council with a strong view on recycling and repurposing and I’m looking for opportunities to develop this further in our shire.
I look at the Eaglehawk repurposing facility and hope we can do something like this or similar here in Loddon. I will continue to investigate this as I get towards one year of being your ward councillor.