Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) gives notice in accordance to section 158 of the Local Government Act (2008) that the following rates and charges were declared to apply to the financial year ending 30 June 2022 at the Ordinary Council Meeting held on Friday 30 May 2021. Rates Declaration for 2021-22 is available on our website at Rates Declaration 2021-22 or at our Council Offices in community as well as at 1 Bagot Street, Alice Springs.
As part of its reengagement strategy with clients, Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) was on the road to deliver its Careers Expo. Over 13 and 14 July, three teams crisscrossed the region with a single objective: to bring together job seekers and employers in the region.
The themes of this year’s event were:
The Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) People and Culture Recruitment Team have been busy over April and May running recruitment training in communities. This was the first time the team had been to most communities so it was a great opportunity for them to get to know more of the staff.
The training was aligned to the Recruitment and Selection Standard Operating Procedure with an aim to increase the accuracy and compliance of recruitment paperwork received as well as compliance to the procedure, policy and Local Government Act requirements.
In June 2021, the Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) collaborated with DriveSafe to deliver remote licencing to jobseekers and residents in Yuelamu, Yuendumu, Laramba, Willowra and Anmatjere. Participants across these communities accessed theory classes and road safety education lessons towards their Learner and Provisional licences, and practical driving assessments.
A total of 137 people attended the training. 73 people gained their Learner licences, 12 obtained Provisional licences and 5 participants obtained full licences.
Cyril Kunoth (Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Yuendumu Roads Team Leader) passed his Heavy Combination (HC) driver licence training on Wednesday 23 June. He can now drive the CDRC prime mover and trailer which is used to cart heavy machinery between sites.
This is usually a tough test which includes a theory part and a three hour practical test, including everything from controlling the truck to coupling/uncoupling the trailer and securing loads. He didn’t make it in his first attempt which shows just how tough it is, but he did pass his second attempt.
Reconciliation Week runs from 27 May until 3 June every year. These dates commemorate the 27 May 1967 referendum and the 3 June 1992 High Court Mabo decision. Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
To commemorate this Reconciliation Week, after four years after it came out, here is the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ as spoken by Pat Anderson, Stan Grant, Adam Goodes, Ursula Yovich and Troy Cassar-Daley, with music by Midnight Oil.
The Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) in Yuendumu designed and made bookshelves as part of the Drought Relief funding. The bookshelves are to be sent to other CDRC communities where they will be decorated and put into the Council offices as a small library.
Yuelamu have received theirs and the Yuelamu CDP have already decorated it. Expect to see the new library in the Yuelamu office soon.
Photo: The decorated bookshelf for the Yuelamu small library.
Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) participants in Yuendumu have been working on the Tanami Road Upgrade Project.
Both Eugene Penhall and Francis Penhall have been working with Exact Contracting since mid-February as all round machinery operators. Both have contributed to the Tanami Road Upgrade Project with their skills on the rollers, skid steer loaders, and IT loaders.
Trees have been planted at the Yuendumu oval as part of a Local Authority (LA) project. The work was completed by the Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) crew in Yuendumu.
After getting clearance from ‘Dial Before You Dig’ ten trees have been planted around the football oval. Aaron Singleton and Ansalem Wilson, both jobseekers in Yuendumu with CDP, helped to plant and water the trees in, with the help of Cliffy Egan, the Client Services Officer and Vaughn Hampton, Activity Supervisor at CDP in Yuendumu.
To water the trees they used one of the 2000 litre water trailers that the Yuendumu LA purchased last year.
The April 2021 edition of the Central Desert News is out now! You can view it by opening the attachment below.
In this edition:
- Nyirripi Childcare centre reopens
- It's raining training at CDRC!
- A lot of actual rain
- Imparja Cup
- 2020/21 Year planner
