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Items of note for this week
Western Safety Group meeting
Last week the Western Safety Group held its monthly meeting. The draft minutes from the meeting are available by clicking here. One item of note for staff to come from the meeting is with regards to satellite phones and the issue of dead batteries being in these phones. Any staff member that has a satellite phone is asked to keep their sat phone charged and to carry out a test call once a month. Jenni will be in touch soon with custodians to confirm the sat phone location, number and rego.
Rangeland rehabilitation funding opportunity for landholders
The latest rangeland rehab program is now open with the guidelines and application form on our website under the grants and funding tab. Charlie will be working with Paul to promote this opportunity through the usual communication channels and staff are asked to help by promoting the opportunity to their local networks. For further information on the program contact Paul.
Promotional items - what is in your office or back shed?
Charlie is looking into organising some more merchandise for staff to use at local events, field days etc. Before he places and order, can staff please check to see what their current levels are and send him an email if they have a decent amount of a particular item which could be shared around with other offices? Information on the resources that are around the region can be seen by clicking here. Some of the items Charlie is looking to purchasing are:
- caps
- pocket notebooks
- reusable coffee cups
- calico bags
- colouring in pencil sets for kids.
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Staff movements
Recruitment
A number of roles that were recently advertised are progressing to interview stage.
Leave
- Ronni is on leave on Monday
- Robynne is on leave on Monday
- Kerry is on leave on Monday
- Georgie is on leave on Monday
- Hully is on leave until Wednesday
- Trent is on leave on Monday and Tuesday
- Andrea is on leave on Monday and Tuesday
- Ben is on leave from Friday and will return on 9 October
- Lynda is on leave until early October
- Blackie is on extended leave
- Rhoda is on extended leave
- Colin is on extended leave.
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Movements of the Ops Team
Erlina Compton
Erlina will be in Canberra from Monday to Wednesday for the rangelands NRM alliance meeting and national CEOs meeting. On Thursday and Friday Erlina will be back in the office.
Michelle Johnson
Michelle will be in the office on Monday and Friday and in Sydney from Tuesday to Thursday. When in the office, Michelle has monthly one on one meetings with her team and has interviews for the Customer Service Officer role. Michelle will be in Sydney for a mentor meeting.
Andrew Hull
Hully was an apology for the meeting as he is on leave on Monday and Tuesday.
Ben Slingsby
Ben will be in the office on Monday and getting ready for leave. Ben will be in Sydney from Tuesday to Thursday for the mentor meeting.
Gemma Turnbull
Gemma will be in the office from Monday to Wednesday and her priorities include the Russel Harland scholarship interviews and an ag production meeting which is on Monday. Gemma will travel to Sydney on Thursday for a goat production meeting which is on Friday and return home on Saturday.
Mitch Plumbe
Mitch will be in the office all week and priorities include recruitment, Land Services Program follow up, weeds application, the birds project and getting some work done for the Barrier Area Rangecare Group AGM which is on Sunday.
Tim Wall
Tim will be in Broken Hill on Monday and working on the 1080 PCO and MyLand documents, will attend a Central Darling fire meeting on Tuesday, will conduct some bruco tests on Wednesday, be in the office on Thursday and attend a wild dog meeting in Tilpa on Friday.
Craig Wood (acting for Tanya Cooper)
Acting team leader role concludes on Friday. Craig will be continuing to work on developing policy for varying existing clearing consents.
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Out and about in the media
Some weeds coverage in the Wilcannia News and Life and Light story in the Western Herald (Bourke).
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Until next week...
Thanks for reading the 16 September edition of the Western Region Round-up, if you require clarification on any of the above, please contact the manager or team leader responsible for further information.
If there is anything else you would like to see featured in the round-up, please email Charlie Whiteley.
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