Our Mission

To be a leading community with a strong local government, vibrant economy, healthy natural environment and unique sense of place.

Our Vision

The vision for the Shire’s future will centre on ensuring that the population, level of economic activity and services grow in a manner that retains the area’s unique character and heritage values.

This will mean that we will need to invest resources into attracting aspirational businesses and residents, exploring alternative land development scenarios, forming strategic alliances and lobbying government agencies for additional funding and assistance.

We will also seek to ensure that our economic, social and environmental strategies are financially sustainable into the future. This will require the consolidation of working relationships with other local governments, community groups and local businesses.

We recognise that our town and rural communities are interdependent and will work towards ensuring that our community and sporting groups have adequate facilities and assistance. We will recognise the contributions of all sections of the community, the importance of a bright future for youth and a high quality of life for our seniors.

This vision will be grounded in a set of values that reflects the aspirations of the local community.We will also seek to review our strategic directions on a regular basis and gauge our progress through a biannual survey of the community.

To achieve this vision the Shire will need to be a place that is tolerant, flexible, open minded and prepared for change.We will be a regional leader and communicate and involve our citizens in the decision making process.

Our Values

As decisions are made about initiatives and resource allocations, Councillors, community members and staff will be guided by the following set of values:

• People. We will value the people in our community and respect their diversity.
• Economy. We will value traditional parts of the economy and seek new opportunities.
• Ownership. We will value and support community ownership of key initiatives.
• Partnership. We will value partnerships with the community, our region and beyond.
• Leadership. We will value local leaders and our regional leadership potential.
• Environment. We will value our environmental and social heritage.