July 2025 edition – Council meeting fields questions and more besides

LAST month’s council meeting saw a change to the Public Question Time Procedure with all questions required to be submitted to the shire prior to the meeting.

This changes a longstanding practice where questions without notice from the floor could be asked.

After question time the council considered a range of matters including receiving the audit report from the Officer of the Auditor General.

The report gave a Disclaimer of Opinion in relation to the 2023/2024 financial year as the ‘financial report was submitted for audit purposes without complete and accurate underlying records’.

The draft Audit Opinion is available in the June meeting attachments.

The shire’s current leadership team were employed in the 2024/2025 financial year and the council in its current form started in October 2023.