Central NSW Councils (Centroc) represents over 236,000 people covering an area of more than 70,000sq kms comprising the Local Government Areas of Bathurst, Blayney, Boorowa, Cabonne, Cowra, Forbes, Harden, Lachlan, Lithgow, Oberon, Orange, Parkes, Upper Lachlan, Weddin , Wellington, Young and Central Tablelands Water.
Centroc exists to advocate and improve operational efficiencies for its members.
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Centroc Staff wins Louise Petchell Memorial Award for Individual Sustainability
Centroc’s Sustainability Programs Manager, Rachael Young was awarded the inaugural Louise Petchell Memorial Award for Individual Sustainability, at the Local Government and Shires Association Excellence in the Environment Awards in Sydney.
This is a highly prestigious award for individual achievement up to and including 2009-2010 in recognition of their contribution to the cause of environmental improvement and sustainability. Centroc also received a Highly Commended for The Shiny Halo Blog in the Energy Saving and Climate Adatpation/ Mitigation Category. This project has been funded by the NSW Environmental Trust.
Left: Rachael Young accepting the Louise Petchell Memorial Award, with Bernard Proctor
Centroc Program Earns Excellence Award Centroc efforts to save hundreds of thousands of dollars through the Compliance and Cost Savings Program has been recognised for its efforts at the recent LGMA Awards. At the awards, Centroc received the 'Highly Commended' award for Excellence in Leadership and Innovation for Rural Councils. The LGMA awards recognised leadership in local government that improve organisational performance, productivity and service. The awards are also designed to present an inspirational role model for the sector. Right: General Managers of Centroc accepting LGMA award In November 2008, Centroc embarked upon a study of our region's water supplies. The investigation included sophisticated modelling to forecast urban demand from the dozens of towns within our remit, for a 50-year horizon through to 2059.
Centroc has received a third award for the Water Security Study. The Excellence award was from Engineers Australia for the section ‘Engineering for Regional Communities'.
We then, in consultation with our 17 local government members and our many other external stakeholders, set about understanding and evaluating the available options. Ultimately, we settled upon an integrated program of water conservation and demand management measures, coupled with new and upgraded water supply and storage infrastructure.
Left: (L-R) Cr Bob Dowling, Mayor of Cabonne Council, Cr John Davis Mayor of Orange City Council and Cr Paul Toole Mayor of Bathurst Regional Council.
Centroc's Live Issues page is regularly updated with issues that arise from communities in Central NSW. A current major concern is Telecommunications, including broadband, digital TV and mobile reception in the region. If you are concerned about telecommunications in your community, find out more about what Centroc is doing here.
Centroc advocates on agreed regional positions and priorities while working co-operatively to benefit the councils and communities of Central NSW. Using Centroc's regional strength and leadership in advocacy Centroc lobbies State and Federal Governments to present a more compelling case for regional priorities which are:
- Bells Line of Expressway
- Telecommunications' services, particularly broadband
- Environmental Sustainability
- Health
- Transport and Water Infrastucture
- Regional Development
Centroc does not work on the region's behalf in isolation. The following regional teams and organisations work with us:
- The Bells Line of Expressway Group
- Central West Regional Development Australia
- The Lachlan Catchment Management Authority
- The Weight of Loads Group
- The Central West Catchment Management Authority
- Netwaste
- Central NSW Tourism
- Arts OutWest
- Rural Doctor's Network
- NSW Central West Division of General Practice
Centroc provides a number of information sharing and aggregated purchasing projects which deliver significant cost savings, compliance, improved environmental and business practice to our councils and out into the community.These include:
- The Centroc General Managers' Advisory Commitee
- The Central NSW Regional Training Service
- The Central West Human Resource Management Group
- The Centroc Supply Team
- The Centroc Occupational Health and Risk Management Team
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- The Centroc Enterprise Risk Management Team
- The Compliance and Cost Savings Initiative
- Environmental sustainability programming through the That's A Good Idea! and Climate eXchange projects
Centroc Councils recognise that the environment, sustainability and understanding and adapting to climate change are important to the long term prosperity of Central NSW. Thats a Good Idea! and Climate eXchange are projects supported by Centroc members to generate energy, interest and most importantly, change in these areas. The funding for these two projects have been funded by the NSW Environmental Trust.
Together through a range of initiatives such as building the capacity of local government staff and making changes to Council operations and infrastructure, and engaging our communities, Centroc is developing and implementing good ideas to reduce the ecological footprint of our region.
We are changing everyday behaviours within council, running community based composting projects and encouraging climate friendly actions.
The Centroc Regional Training Service provides coordinated training services to maximise opportunity and value in training for member Councils.Through Centroc, member councils are able to access timely, professional, and cost effective training for all of their staff.
The training service sources course information and quotes and will coordinate training on behalf of members councils. Discounts from training providers are also negotiated by the training service and passed onto member councils. The service also promotes vacancies in training for council's in-house courses to help reduce council's training costs.
The services are available to all Centroc members. Other councils, state agencies and private organisations are also able to use the services of centroc on a fee for service basis.
A full range of courses are available including OHS compliance, RTA Traffic Control, Heavy Vehicle and Plant Operator Training, Information Technology and Professional Skills Development.
Up coming training can be viewed on the Centroc Training Calendar
