Council News #226 - 22 December 2018

Council News CITY OF WAGGA WAGGA

FIRST PRINTED SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER 2018

Issue No: 226

Weekly information from us to you INCREASE IN L AKE BAC TERIA LEVELS

Council is advising against the use of Lake Albert due to high bacteria levels.

Under National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines, Council monitors two main types of bacteria in the lake, cyanobacteria (blue green algae) and enterococci.

Test results received on Thursday afternoon have shown high levels for both types of bacteria in the lake.

The community is advised against coming in contact with or ingesting the water until the bacteria levels decrease.

The high readings for blue green algae follow recent alerts in other Riverina waterways due to lower rainfall and high temperatures.

Council’s 12-month ultrasound trial to control blue green algae was switched on last Friday and needs to be active for six or more weeks before any effect can be measured.

Council has had preliminary discussions with Riverina Water and State Member Dr Joe McGirr on a permanent solution for Lake Albert water levels. These discussions have been very positive and it is hoped an announcement can be made in the new year.

SIGNED, SEALED AND READY TO BE DELIVERED: Stage 2 of the Main City Levee upgrade is ready to get underway early in the new year following the contract signing on Friday. Works begin from 7 January 2019 to create a 1 in 100 year level of protection for Wagga Wagga.

The project is funded by all levels of government. Attending the contract signing were (from left) Steve Murray from Murray Constructions, Aunty Kath Withers, Member for Wagga Wagga Dr Joe McGirr, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, Wes Fang MLC and Mayor Greg Conkey. For more information on the project, visit wagga.nsw.gov.au/levee.

Merry and 'bright' Christmas Christmas has come early for the winners of Wagga Wagga City Council’s inaugural Christmas store display competition.

Four local businesses will share in $8000 in cash prizes as part of a new Council initiative to create a festive atmosphere in stores and encourage people to shop locally.

Mayor of the City of Wagga Wagga Councillor Greg Conkey OAM, local businesswoman Caroline Candusso and Miss Wagga Wagga Stina Constantine judged the entries on Wednesday afternoon, with the prizes going to: • Best Store & Window Display ($3000) – Lilly of the Valley • Festive Experience ($2500) – My Shed • People’s Choice ($1500) – Loot Country Wares

friends online.

“The competition was held on Instagram to encourage businesses to use social media to promote their bricks-and-mortar business and attract Christmas shoppers to their stores.”

Council has also partnered with local businesses as part of a 12 Days of Wagga Christmas digital advent calendar at visitwagga.com/christmas. Sixteen Wagga Tourism Partner businesses are offering new offers each day in the lead up to Christmas as part of the online promotion.

Along with the online initiatives, Council • A Wagga Christmas ($1000) – Wagga switched on its new light display on Restoration Centre Wednesday night (pictured). Following on “Congratulations to the winning businesses, from the successful lighting of the tree in who have brought the joy and excitement the Victory Memorial Gardens for Christmas of Christmas into their stores for their 2017, this year Council has installed 200m of customers,” Cr Conkey said. fairy lights and 150m of icicle lights at all five pedestrian crossings on Baylis Street.

“The aim of Council’s new competition was to encourage people to shop locally and not Like the tree in the Victory Memorial online by creating a unique, festive experience Gardens, the lights in the CBD will be used that customers are willing to share with their year-round from dusk to early morning.

COUNCIL TO SAY 'I DO' TO BEST PROPOSALS

Council is calling for creative proposals from artists to create a temporary performance or installation as part of Date Night for Valentine’s Day 2019.

Date Night is back in 2019 by popular demand after its successful 2018 debut.

The event transforms Wagga Wagga’s art gallery, library, museum and theatre into an entrancing night time playground with pop up performances and wine bars throughout the Civic Precinct.

It’s the perfect evening for revellers and romantics, concluding with a sunset screening of cinema classic When Harry Met Sally on the banks of Wollundry Lagoon.

To make this evening event unforgettable, Council is looking for creative proposals, with all art forms considered.

There is a budget of up to $10,000 to commission a number of works for the night.

The full application guidelines can be found at www.publicartwagga. com.au/apply and applications can be submitted until noon, Monday 7 January 2019.

Council Christmas trading hours To check opening hours for Council customer service and our cultural facilities visit: wagga.nsw.gov.au/openhours

COUNCILLOR COLUMN

New Year’s Eve Lake Closure

Boat ramps to Lake Albert will be closed from 8am Monday 31 December to 12.30am Tuesday 1 January for the New Year’s Eve Skyworks event.

1300 292 442 Civic Centre, cnr Baylis & Morrow Sts council@wagga.nsw.gov.au

www.wagga.nsw.gov.au

No change to kerbside waste collections this festive season Kerbside waste collections will continue as normal over the Christmas and New Year’s period.

If your regular collection day falls on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day please continue to place your bins on the kerbside ready for collection by 6am.

Gregadoo Waste Management Centre will be closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

vacancies TEAM LEADER PARKS OPERATIONS - OPEN SPACE Remuneration: $2,772.76 gpf + super Enquiries: Henry Pavitt - 0408 639 366 Closing Date: Monday, 31 December 2018 TEAM LEADER PARKS OPERATIONS - SPORTSGROUNDS Remuneration: $2,772.76 gpf + super Enquiries: Henry Pavitt - 0408 639 366 Closing Date: Monday, 31 December 2018 PLANT OPERATOR Remuneration: $1,846.02 gpf + super Enquiries: Henry Pavitt - 0408 639 366 Closing Date: Monday, 31 December 2018 SPRAY OPERATOR Remuneration: $1,926.88 gpf + super Enquiries: Henry Pavitt - 0408 639 366 Closing Date: Monday, 31 December 2018 SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER - POMINGALARNA Two (2) Year Fixed Term Contract Remuneration: $130,000 salary package in accordance with skills and experience Enquiries: Rupesh Shah - 02 6926 9517 Closing Date: Friday, 4 January 2019 SUPERVISOR SOLID WASTE Remuneration: $2,921.66 gpf + super Enquiries: Geoffrey Pym - 0429 505 746 Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2019 LABOURER (GREGADOO WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTRE) Remuneration: $1,805.22 gpf + super Enquiries: Geoffrey Pym - 0429 505 746 Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2019

To view these opportunities and apply, visit wagga.nsw.gov.au/jobs

Wagga Wagga City Council is an EEO employer

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councillor.funnell@wagga.nsw.gov.au | 0459 988 402 the majority of the Wagga and Australian population.

Throughout the Wagga people region there are pride themselves various efforts to on celebrating promote this holiday; diversity, which has extravagant Christmas been implemented lighting throughout into Council actions many of the suburbs, throughout the year individual shopfronts such as Pride Week, decorating in a Indigenous Week Christmas theme, and etc having been the annual motorbike/ granted community children parade. Many acknowledgement via groups have Council Council activities. approval/support in Accordingly, their appropriate/ Christmas should appointed times. be celebrated in the So too should those manner that it calls for; celebrating Christmas honouring the birth of in the traditional Jesus Christ 2000 years manner be given ago, a moment that is acknowledgement in an intrinsic element front of the community in Western civilization via a wider reaching and the Christian faith; effort from the Wagga a faith that makes up Council.

Public Notices

The Christmas tradition is rooted in Christianity and should be remembered and correspondingly celebrated as such.

It is not making any major statement to decorate the streets in a manner that reminds people what exactly is occurring at this time of the year. Rather, it is to remind Wagga citizens that to “Have a Wagga Christmas” should be the community supporting an event that encompasses the largest single group of people in Wagga and beyond whom recognise and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas, which the Wagga Council has begun to reinvigorate in its

by the person making the submission that they do not wish this to occur.

Any questions relating to the above proposed licence renewal may be referred to Jenny Bailey, Land and Property Officer on 1300 292 442. Submissions will be received until 5pm on Monday 14 January 2019.

agenda.

Some decorations can already be happily attributed to Council action. Although, as a local governing organisation, I hope to see the authentic, Christian spirit of Christmas celebrated even more extensively by the Wagga Council throughout the region in the future, which at its origins, revolves around Christian belief and the propagation of our faith and society.

I wish everyone a happy and holy Christmas and look forward to representing you all again next year!

Councillor Paul Funnell

Council’s website at wagga. The proposal is Integrated nsw.gov.au/public.

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Submission Procedure: Approvals required:Persons wishing to make Rural Fires Act 1997 s 100B a submission in relation Name of Consent Authority: to the revised Masterplan Wagga Wagga City Council should do so prior to the NOTICE OF The subject application close of the exhibition TEMPORARY ROAD period. Submissions should and accompanying documentation, may be CLOSURE be in writing and may be Notice is hereby given delivered to Wagga Wagga inspected at the following under Roads Act 1993 Part 8 City Council or mailed to the address until the closure of exhibition.

Division 4 of the temporary NOTICE OF General Manager, Wagga closing of: Wagga City Council, PO Box Exhibition documents are INTENTION TO only available between Roads: Lake Albert shared 20, Wagga Wagga, NSW CARRY OUT path 2650 or emailed to council@ Submission Period: WEED CONTROL 24/12/2018 to 18/01/2019 wagga.nsw.gov.au.

Duration: 8am 31/12/18 to ACTIVITIES Where: Wagga Wagga 12.30am 1/1/2019 Persons making written City Council, cnr Baylis and Over the next twelve submissions regarding Arrangement: Path closed Morrow Streets, Wagga months, Wagga Wagga City the above Masterplan are Reason: Preparations for Council shall be undertaking advised that any submission Wagga (Customer Service display Counter) or online via the weed control on all parks received within the Detour: A route for link:- https://eservices. and gardens, rural reserves submission period will be pedestrians will be sign wagga.nsw.gov.au/ and rural roadside reserves subject to the Government posted onto Lakehaven exhibitiondocs throughout the Local Information (Public Access) Drive Government Area. The When: 9am to 5pm, Monday Act 2009 and the Privacy Roads: Lake Street and chemicals identified below to Friday (except Public and Personal Information Eastlake Drive may be applied to treat Holidays).

Protection Act (PIPPA) and Duration: 8am 31 December Priority Weeds. may be attached to the Any person seeking to make 2018 to 1.30am 1 January • Glyphosate final report, in its entirety a submission in relation 2019 or in part, to Council unless to the abovementioned • Aminopyralid explicitly requested by Arrangement: one-way development should • Triclopyr the person making the travel – south to north and address all correspondence • Simazine submission that they do not to the Consent Authority to parking restrictions • Metsulfuron-Methyl wish this to occur. be received prior to 5pm on Reason: Wagga Skyworks • Picloram Any questions relating to the the final day of the exhibition Event • Clopyralid period. If any submission is Masterplan document may PUBLIC be referred to Ben Creighton made by way of objection, • MCPA the grounds of objection on 1300 292 442.

DISCLOSURE • Terbuthylazine must be specified in the NOTICE • Amitrole NOTICE OF submission.

• Oxyfluorfen COUNCIL OWNED DEVELOPMENT Persons lodging submissions COMMUNITY LAND All spraying will be carried PROPOSAL are required to declare out as per Council’s Pesticide Public Disclosure Notice Wagga Wagga City Council political donations (including Plan.

If you wish to obtain Council Owned Community donations of more than has received the following Land 2 Kulgoa Street, Wagga further information about $1000) made in the previous application to carry out the spraying program Wagga Notice is hereby two years. For more details, “Development” under the please contact Council’s given under the Local Environmental Planning and including disclosure form, Environmental Management Government Act Chapter go to www.planning.nsw.

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DA18/0298, 129 1300 292 442. licensing of part Lot 21 DP Persons making written Lot Residential 261838 known as 2 Kulgoa submissions regarding the DRAFT BOLTON Subdivision, 58 Harris Rd Street, Wagga Wagga to above development are GOBBAGOMBALIN NSW PARK MASTER PLAN Amy Hurd Early Learning advised that any submission 2650 Council hereby gives public Centre for the purpose of received within the Lot 8 DP 1242840, notice of the exhibition an early childhood centre submission period will be Applicant: Trustees Of The of its Draft Bolton Park for a term of five (5) years. subject to the Government Roman Catholic Church Masterplan. The draft Persons wishing to make Information (Public Access) Masterplan will be on a submission in relation to Act 2009 and the Privacy NOTICE OF the above proposed licence exhibition from Thursday 20 and Personal Information DEVELOPMENT December 2018 for a period renewal should do so prior Protection Act (PIPPA) and to the close of the exhibition of 56 days, until Thursday PROPOSAL FOR may be attached to the 21 February 2019. Council period. final report, in its entirety INTEGRATED invites public submissions Submissions should be or in part, to Council unless DEVELOPMENT on the draft Masterplan, in writing and may be explicitly requested by Wagga Wagga City Council delivered to Wagga Wagga to be lodged within the the person making the has received the following City Council or mailed to the exhibition period. Inspection submission that they do not application to carry out Venue: The draft Masterplan General Manager, Wagga wish this to occur.

“Development” under the Wagga City Council, PO Box is available for review at Enquiries: Further details Environmental Planning and Wagga Wagga City Council, 20, Wagga Wagga NSW relating to the matter or Assessment Act, 1979.

2650 or emailed to council@ Cnr Baylis & Morrow Sts, making a submission can be Wagga Wagga, during DA18/0302, 214 Lot wagga.nsw.gov.au. obtained by calling Council’s the hours of 9am to 5pm Residential Subdivision, Persons making written City Development on 1300 Monday to Friday (excluding 86-112 Harris Rd submissions regarding the 292 442.

Monday 24 December until GOBBAGOMBALIN NSW above proposed licence Tuesday 1 January 2019 and 2650 renewal are advised that Monday 28 January 2019) Lot 10 DP 816780, Lot 11 Peter Thompson, any submission received within the above exhibition DP 816780, Applicant: within the submission General Manager Combined Development period will be subject to the period. The draft Policy can also be accessed from Group Pty Ltd Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 and the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act (PIPPA) and may be attached e council@wagga.nsw.gov.au to the final report, in its p 1300 292 442 a Civic Centre, cnr Baylis & entirety or in part, to Council w wagga.nsw.gov.au unless explicitly requested Morrow Sts

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