YEARS OF DROUGHT in NSW causing water shortages, fires igniting in inaccessible country and the overwhelming scale of recent bushfires all contributed to the toll on people and nature in the Queanbeyan-Palerang local government area (QPRC). This is the assessment of a submission QPRC staff prepared for the NSW government’s bushfire
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Queanbeyan Palerang Council: face-to-face service closures, online access instead
QUEANBEYAN-PALERANG REGIONAL Council has confirmed the closure of a number of non-essential facilities and a restriction of some services to assist in minimising the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Acting on the direction of appropriate authorities including the Federal and State governments, a number of Council facilities have been closed since Monday.
Cost of drought and bushfires biting hard, Braidwood water carting
Water recycling anyone? BUYING AND CARTING drinking water to Braidwood will cost around $10,000 a day, according to Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) which says the NSW Government is yet to confirm it will help foot the bill. Braidwood is just one of more than 55 townships in Australia, mostly in NSW, reported
Controversial Queanbeyan Bypass road: contractors left high and dry
“CANBERRA AND QUEANBEYAN tradespeople say the $86 million Ellerton Drive extension has been mismanaged, after a sub-contractor spiralled into voluntary administration and left 21 local businesses nearly $395,000 out-of-pocket”, reports The Canberra Times. The debt includes almost half a million dollars owed to the Australian Taxation office. “Civil Bridge and Wharf,
QPRC persists with mystery zoning change Bywong, Wamboin
WHY? THAT QUESTION from the rural residential community hovers over Council’s decision at its May general meeting to spend another $50,000 of taxpayers’ funds for a planning proposal to split the zoning in Wamboin and Bywong based broadly on topography, i.e. on what occurs naturally on the ground, either remnant
Local council meetings, petitions and you — coming up
More hoops to having a say, thanks Coalition government OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE in local council meetings will be curtailed under a proposed new meeting code of practice the NSW government is imposing effective from 14 June 2019. The changes arise from amendments to the Local Government Act in August 2016. QPRC
Queanbeyan-Palerang council December news roundup
QPRC borrows millions, construction runoff pollutes river, council satisfaction — what got tick and what didn’t. Council to borrow $50 million Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) is seeking approval from the NSW Government to borrow $50.4 million from Treasury, with an estimated interest bill of $22 million. The loan would be drawn down
Who wins from QPRC downtown land sales agreement?
Closed-door decisions beg question: what’s in it for ratepayers, existing businesses? TWO YEARS AFTER QPRC interim Administrator Tim Overall approved an exclusive in-principle agreement to sell multiple council sites to a single consortium without a public tender, details are finally starting to emerge about the arrangements, raising questions about who the
Finding: Administrator overstepped in land sales approval
QUEANBEYAN-PALERANG MAYOR Tim Overall breached the Local Government Code of Conduct when he considered an in-principle agreement to sell multiple blocks of council land to a consortium of developers in 2016, according to a finding of the NSW Office of Local Government (OLG). The OLG made the finding in response to
