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Council a Strong Performer in Benchmarking Report
An independent assessment of Coffs Harbour City Council’s performance as an organisation – when benchmarked against 87 other local authorities in Australia and New Zealand – concludes that the workforce is diverse and highly engaged with the delivery of a varied range of services to the community.
The Australasian LG Performance Excellence Program was developed by PwC Australia and LG Professionals NSW to provide a tool against which individual councils can measure their performance. Specifically, it measures and provides insights into workforce, finance, operations, service delivery, corporate leadership and asset management. This latest report relates to the financial year 2019/2020.
One of Americaâs leading financiers in the 1800s was Charlemagne Tower, Senior. His family roots began in England, then arrived in the first Puritan colonies in America, and eventually moved to New York State. His wife, Amelia Bartle Tower, was born in Ohio but traveled with her parents to California, where she met Charlemagne during a trip he made there. After their marriage they settled in Pennsylvania. He began to invest in the development of coal mines and the railroads that went with them. One of his railroads was the famous Reading Railroad.
During the American Civil War, Charlemagne gathered a group of men from Pennsylvania to form a Union troop. He paid for much of the menâs equipment and provisions. They fought well in several battles and he retired from the army as a captain.
Gov. Eric Holcomb
As the pandemic spread across the world creating countless problems, Fred Geyer possessed a solution in Northwest Indiana.
N95 masks, vital to protecting health care workers exposed to the coronavirus, were in short global supply, and his business, American Melt Blown & Filtration, already produced the filtration for the short-supplied N95 masks made in other countries. So why not create the entire masks in the Hoosier state?
That question led to the creation of a new company: Indiana Face Mask. This December, out of thousands of submissions, the company was one of only five nationwide to receive CDC approval to manufacture N95s. A significant achievement as the majority of N95s were made overseas prior to the pandemic.