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Regional Development Australia Wide Bay Burnett Director of Regional Development Scott Rowe will deliver his 'state of the region' address, and will be followed by Mayor Glen Hartwig and Gympie Regional Council CEO Shane Gray. Scott Rowe, Glen Hartwig and Shane Gray will be the guest speakers at the first Gympie Chamber of COmmerce breakfast meeting of 2021, to be held in the newly renovated RSL in Mary Street. Mr Rowe's presentation will cover Gympie's COVID position and recovery, workforce positioning.and emerging economic development opportunities. Regional Development Australia (RDA...

Letter to the Editor In response to the information provided by (Gympie Regional Council CEO) Shane Gray in relation to awarding of the Environment Levy grants, (15/1/2021) we note that there is no legislative requirement requiring the awarding of grants by Council to be decided by the elected Council. There were clear criteria established for assessment of grant submissions. To be successful, a submission had to respond to a priority/objective or action in Council’s adopted Environment Strategy, which was adopted by the elected council (the vote was unanimous). Therefore the issuing of gra...

Adding to the oddity, the levy report has itself now become the centre of controversy. The strategy uploaded to the council’s website after it was endorsed said the environment report would not simply be investigated but actually developed. Conservation groups have called for the publication of the 2018-19 report, criticising the new council for declining requests for its release as contrary to its commitment to transparency as part of a wider attack over "unprecedented" funding delays. Mr Gray said in response late last week the council could not release such a report as it had not be...

Gympie council CEO Shane Gray has refuted criticism of "unprecedented delays" in its awarding of environmental grants, and said such funding needed to be signed off by councillors, something which had not been done in the past. The council's process came under fire this year in a letter written and signed by three of the region's environmental groups: Cooloola Coast Care Association, Gympie and District Landcare Group, and Koala Action Gympie Region. The groups slammed the council for a delay in awarding grants funded by the Environment Levy, and said projects were being pushed back by up ...

ENVIRONMENTAL groups, farmers developers and business leaders who want to shape Gympie Regional Council's future biodiversity laws are being asked to throw their name into the ring for a new reference group. The council is forming the group following its controversial repeal of two temporary planning tools adopted by the pervious council. The repeal was met with significant outcry, sparking protests and an online petition which has attracted more than 27,000 signatures. Protesters outside Gympie town hall Councillors removed the laws, introduced in February before the election, amid con...