Councillor Portfolios announced

Charters Towers Regional Council has held its first General Meeting on Tuesday 28 April 2020 with its newly elected Council following the recent Local Government elections.

At the meeting, Council resolved the Councillors’ Portfolios. Portfolios have been aligned to Council’s five year Corporate Plan strategic focus areas and allocated as follows:

Strategic Framework Focus                             Area Councillor
Ex-Officio All Portfolios                                    Mayor Frank Beveridge
Advocacy     

1. Economic Development & Planning            Councillor Sonia Bennetto
2. Tourism                                                        Councillor Julie Mathews
3. Infrastructure and Sustainability                  Councillor Kate Hastie
4. Infrastructure and Sustainability                  Councillor Bernie Robertson
5. Water & Wastewater Management              Councillor Alan Barr
6. Community                                                  Councillor Graham Lohmann

Key changes following the newly elected Council, see new Councillors Julie Mathews assuming the Tourism portfolio, and Kate Hastie assuming a portion of the large Infrastructure and Sustainability portfolio that is shared with Cr Bernie Robertson.

Councillor Sonia Bennetto’s portfolio has been revised from Tourism to Economic Development and Planning.

Other Councillor portfolios remain largely unchanged.

“It’s important we play to our strengths so we can hit the ground running and have aimed for consistency with little change to continuing Councillor portfolios,” Mayor Frank Beveridge said.

“I have every confidence our new Councillors will apply their experiences, particularly from their own businesses, to their allocated portfolio.”

More detail about Council Portfolios can be found on Council’s website.

OGG 7 May 2020