General News
5 March, 2025
Civic leaders’ summit
ALMOST every Douglas Shire councillor is attending the Local Government Association Queensland’s civic leaders’ summit in Brisbane next month.
Mayor Lisa Scomazzon, deputy mayor Cr Roy Zammataro, Cr Damian Meadows and Cr Michael Rees are attending the two-day event. Only Cr Abigail Noli will be missing.
According to a council statement: “The summit continues to provide a significant opportunity for (the) council’s elected members to network with and learn from leaders within the local government arena”.
Cr Meadows, who attended the same event last year, told last week’s council meeting that councillors gained “a lot of learnings” from such gatherings.
He said it assisted in council development and ensured “councillors stick to their tasks” and it was “a very good learning experience”
Cr Michael Rees said the summit could not be “under-estimated” and councillors accessed a lot of data and there was lot of networking with influential people in organisations such as the Queensland Reconstruction Authority and Queensland Treasury.
Mayor Lisa Scomazzon said resolutions such as this were important so the community knew exactly what councillors were doing.
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