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YOUR COUNCIL
Awards reflect the commitment to our community
Georges River Council has received great recognition of its enduring commitment to deliver initiatives and services to the Georges River community.
Council received the Greater Sydney Planning Award 2021.
This award was granted for Council’s Economic and Social Recovery Plan - City-Shaping During COVID-19.
Local Government Excellence Awards 2021.
The big winner at the awards was the BENE-FIT 360 program implemented by Council in the People Workplace Wellbeing category.
Council was highly commended for Environmental Leadership through the Gannons Park Water Quality Improvement and Stormwater Harvesting Scheme and highly under the Special Project Initiative Award for Council’s THRIVE! Program.
Council was also recognised for our Customer Service Excellence Program and our New Rates 2021 Campaign, placing as finalists in the Customer Experience and Innovative Leadership categories.
Planning Institute of Australia’s National Awards for Planning Excellence 2021
Council’s ChillOUT Hubs secured the win under the ‘Best Ideas – Small Project’ category.
Museums and Galleries National Awards 2021
Hurstville Museum and Gallery achieved Highly Commended in the Museums and Galleries National Awards 2021. ‘Artbomb: connect + create’ took out the award for the Best Temporary or Travelling Exhibition – Level 1 Category.
Keep Australia Beautiful NSW’s Sustainable Cities Award
Council was commemorated for our environmental sustainability efforts winning the ‘Renewable Energy’ award. The award acknowledges Council’s commitment to achieving 100% renewable energy in our operations by 2025 and the implementation of mitigation initiatives to progress towards net zero carbon emissions.
Georges River Council is most proud to serve and provide the Georges River community with innovations and initiatives that matter most. Council is humbled by the recognition of these efforts and aims to continue these efforts in the future.
Annual Report
2019/2020
www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au
Georges River Council’s 2019/20 Annual Report won the Gold Award at the Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA) held on 18 August 2021.
This Annual Report is the third for Georges River Council overall and marks the third entry in these Awards with previous years’ entries receiving Bronze Awards.
The ARA Awards are open to all organisations in Australia, New Zealand, and countries in the AsiaPacific Region. These include companies, government departments and agencies, and not-for-profit bodies.
The criteria to achieve a gold award means that the Annual Report must achieve overall excellence, provide high quality coverage of all aspects of the ARA Criteria, provide full disclosures of key aspects of the core business, address current legislative and regulatory requirements, and be a model for other reports to follow.
We extend our congratulations to Council on their achievement.
