Town Manager Settled in

Two years ago, in January 2007 our new town manager Ian Robert McCallum came to speak to our club as a brand new import to Devonport (from Narrabri NSW). Now, two years and a bit later he is sold. He loves Devonport, settled into his new job and is holding the reigns.

He has reorganised the council into 4 new departments, each with a brand new director: Corporate Services, Community Services, Planning & Environment and Works & Assets. From having a lot of complaints put to council he now has very few. This may be a result of his new approach which changes the town planning department's three main Responsibilities, the three R's, from the original: Rates, Rubbish and Roads, to his new three R's: Responsiveness, Resourcefulness and Respectfulness!

Mr MacCullum was particularly pleased with achieving momentum in the redevelopment of the access road to the racecourse, getting the lights up at the Devonport sporting oval (State League Games can now be played in Devonport!), the Skate Park redevelopment, the Bluff improvements, (including redevelopment of the Surf Club), the sewerage retention project which is almost complete, the Home Hill restoration, the push for re-development of Formby Road as the main access road into Devonport.... to name but a few! Why not have a quick look at the last Devonport City Council Anual Report Presentation, it really is quite interesting and certainly nicely presented! Check it out, click on that LINK (you do understand all these underlined words above can be clicked on for more information!)!

Also at our meeting we had President Sam dressed up as a bunny handing out chocolate eggs for Easter, impressing our guest Danielle who did not intend to see middle aged men with rabbit ears handing out eggs. We determined that George Russel's favourite colour is BLUE, and that the next meeting instead of being Thursday the 23 of April will be held in conjunction with the Latrobe Club on Monday April 20th. The guest speaker there will be someone from the Menzies Research Centre. Also, congratulations to Erica de Jong, our club 's Youth of the Year winner, made it all the way to Hobart for the Tasmania State Finals last weekend! Unfortunately that is where her journey ended. She will come and speak to us about her quest in June! We'll keep you posted.

Lion Walter----