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.

Position Vacant - Centroc Administration Officer

Live Issues

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.

Advocacy

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

Projects

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
• Screen Central NSW and Western Sydney
• 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