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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's the last time I'm doing Mare on air,
it's the last one for the year. And joining me
now of course on the telephone name he's not in
the studio, but we can cope with that. It's our Maya,
Shane Pitt. Good morning, sir. How are you not bad?
It's pretty pretty yeah, mixed feelings, a pretty emotional time.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But you know it's been a large part of your career.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Down here, yeah it has. It's been a great journey. Yeah, no,
it has been a great journey. And you know, I've
been reflecting on it the last couple of weeks or so,
and yeah, it'll be with me for the rest of
my life, mate, don't worry about that. And look, thank
you once again for your support. It's been fantastic and
enjoyed doing Mere on air with you each and every week.
(00:49):
So in a sense i'll miss.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That, yeah yeah, so no, but it has been great, mate,
And thank you for everything you've done for the West
Coast and you know, and seven Excess and keeping the
dream alive seven Excess, which is great.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Indeed. Yeah, it's been my pleasure. It's been my pleasure.
All right, Let's get on with the show now. I've
got a question here. I live in zen and I
have submitted an abatement notice request to the council every
year for three years on my neighboring property who has
grass over one point five meters long. The council have
acted and organized a contractor to mow this grass. However,
(01:26):
this contractor has just whipped a whipper snip to the
long grass and left it sitting on the ground. The
whole point of this abatement notice was to remove the
fire risks from our community. How is this removing the
risk when the long, dry grass is just lying on
the ground. If anything, it has added to the fire risk.
He made a tough one for you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, it's a bit of a tough one. But yeah,
we'll follow that with task fire Service with regard to
this and slash grass is deemed less of a fire
rist than long growing grass. So the cut grass is
only removed from property when it exceeds Tasmanian and fire
serves guidelines. But you know, it's I guess with regard
(02:10):
to the abatement, so we still you know, even though
the council has engaged a contractor to to cut the
grass of that that resident or for the you know,
for the landowner. We still have to get that payment
back out of the landowner. So you know, until we
get that payment, the rate payers are paying for that
(02:32):
that abatement. So you know, we need to make sure
that the less time we spent, the better off it
is for rate payers until we can get that you know,
the money back off the landowner. So we keep it
down to what inside the Tasmanian Fire Service guidelines and
that's you know, that's to reduce that risk. But I
(02:55):
understand where the residents coming from, and it would be
better if we did take it away. But you know,
it is the cost of the rate payer as well
until we get that refunded from the landowner, which in
some cases we may not do until the property is
sold under the auction, which then there's a long lead
time also with being able to access in funds also,
(03:18):
so yeah, you know, it is difficult and it'd be
good if there was some legislation put in place by
the state government that we could do more than just
debating because of Irish reasons.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
All right, Well, I hope that's answered the question for
that listener this morning. It's yeah, it's amazing how much
is involved with this stuff. Actually it is.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And it has been an ongoing issue we've had for
quite some time. And there's something which whereas the Council
left taken to the Local Government Association of Tasmania in
the past about being able with some of our direlect
buildings around our towns as well, you know what, and
some of the issues with old cars, et cetera and
(04:03):
people's property that are just laying around. But there's nothing
we can do about it until it becomes a safety risk.
So we've been to LOGAT to see if they could
advocate the state government to make some changes in legislation,
but at this stage it hasn't gone anywhere, but we'll
continue to push the fact and because you know it
(04:24):
is it does make our communities look untidy, and you know,
the more that we can make our communities look so
I guess brew them up, the better it looks for
it comes through as well.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That's right, Yeah, that's a good point. All right. Well
let's go into a more a different area now Christmas
and details on your office closure over Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, so we'll be closed during the Christmas new period
from twelve noon Tuesday, the twenty fourth of December and
reopening normal business out eight thirty am Thursday, the second
of January. So it's the normal Christmas break. I guess
that most businesses take this time of the year, not
(05:11):
all businesses. They of course those that are self employed
businesses keep going and so to our major industries. But
you know it's always been in the Council of taking
that time off during the Christmas break. And if there
any dog related emergencies please contact police and of course
(05:33):
if you've got any emergencies relating to Council, please just
call the office number on six four seven one four
seven hundred and then they'll redirected to the on call personnel.
And of course you know we've mentioned this a few
times now SCO. If there's any highway issues around outside
(05:56):
of the town boundaries, please contact your Department of State
Growth on thirteen one hundred one three nine nine double three.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah all right, Well, the other Christmas thing we've got
to talk about is rubbish pickup over Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, a couple of changes there mate to the rubbish
collection over Christmas. So Monday to twenty thirty December, Zion
Straw and Linda and Gormeston Tuesday the twenty four for
December Queenstown and Thursday the twenty sixth of December with
Rosebury and Tayleer as normal, So just a couple of
(06:29):
changes there to the normal pickups.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Mate, it is the last beer on air for twenty
twenty four and my last mayor on air as well.
And we're with me Shane Pitt on the telephone right now.
And of course we want to remind people that it's
still open Community Planned two thousand and thirty five engagement sessions. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So the draft is now ready for available to view
online at West Coast twenty thirty five dot com dot
au or go into counsel and grab a printed copy.
But yeah, we'd like feedback on the draft just so
we make sure we've got everything right, everything that the
community put forward during the consultation period. So yeah, and
(07:11):
we're hoping that either the January or February meetings we'll
be able to endorse that and adopt the plan moving forward,
which will be exciting times for the council again given
the success of the twenty five community Plan.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Alrighty, well, we've got a couple of positions vacant at
the moment at the Council.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, we've got team leader in Queenstown vacant and applications
close today Friday, the twentieth of December, So if anyone
out there wants a job on council is an opportunity,
which is it's great and I guess it's for a
period of eight months, so it's only a short term
(07:59):
contract but just to cover some long service leads there,
but exciting for someone that might want to start a
bit of a campaign. But yeah, and also we've got
an executive officers position that available as well, which that
closes five pm Tuesday, twenty fourth of December, and that's
(08:20):
the exciting position as well. The how A has decided
to move on and to another exciting position that she's
she'll be staying on the West Coast, which is great
and she does a hell of a lot for the
zine community over there, and it's great to see that
(08:40):
she's staying in Zene and taking up a position over there,
which is pretty good position for her to take on.
And I think she'll she'll do that that position justice
that she's moving into, So that's great and you know,
we wish we wish her all the best. She's been
a certainly been a with counsel for a long period
(09:03):
of time and certainly has assisted the general manager myself
without an executive officer role, and it's been a certainly
a credit to her and I guess the work that
she's been able to do has been certainly well worth
while for counsel. And yeah, as I push a well
(09:24):
end of the future.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right, okay, we're going to finish off with the
reminder about food safety requirements.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, so the transition period has now ended for food
businesses to be compliant with the Food Backy Supervisor requirements
as set out by a Department of Health. So warnings
will be issued in January to relevant businesses that haven't
complied to that Food Safety Supervisors certificate. Yeah so, and
(09:53):
you know there are risks of infringements and all cancelations
of their food license for these continued to not be compliant.
So please business, if you are business of food, please
make sure you've done the Food Safety.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Supervisors very important. Absolutely All right, Well that's it. That's
what we've got for today. It's a bit of a
short one, but that's the way I go sometimes. But
look at once again, I want to thank you for
your support to myself and for the station and for
this particular segment as well. It's it's I know you're
(10:30):
a busy man, but you always make sure that you're
available in some capacity for mere on air. So we
want to thank you for that and wish you and
Sue of course all the best for Christmas and the
whole family and well, you know we'll keep in touch,
I think, but all the best to you for the
future made and thanks once again once again for everything.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Thank you and Angela and have yourself have a merry
Christmas in the safe one and to all our residents
out there well and those tourists that are traveling, you know,
have a merry Christmas in the safe new year. And
you know we'll see you back in twenty twenty five.
And yeah, I know it's Mayor on air does give
(11:12):
the opportunity for people to ask questions. I guess it's
one thing that we have seen over this past twelve
months that you know, the council doors are open and
we are open to answer questions wherever we can, and
of course we'll continue that into the future as well.
And it's through seven Excess and Meyor on air that
(11:34):
we're able to do. It's one avenue that people can
ask questions and get a little bit of feedback on
what's going on in our community.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So yeah, that's exactly right. All right, Well thanks for
your time today and well that's a wrap, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Mate, no worries and yeah, all the best.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Thank you very much, Thank you, mayor, Mayor Shame Pitt'.
That's it for this year on Mayor on air, we
thank for Mayor Shame pit once again. Seven Excess. Back
to music right now with a couple of my favorite
ballads thirty eight Special and John Farnham
Well, it's the last time I'm doing Mare on air,
it's the last one for the year. And joining me
now of course on the telephone name he's not in
the studio, but we can cope with that. It's our Maya,
Shane Pitt. Good morning, sir. How are you not bad?
It's pretty pretty yeah, mixed feelings, a pretty emotional time.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But you know it's been a large part of your career.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Down here, yeah it has. It's been a great journey. Yeah, no,
it has been a great journey. And you know, I've
been reflecting on it the last couple of weeks or so,
and yeah, it'll be with me for the rest of
my life, mate, don't worry about that. And look, thank
you once again for your support. It's been fantastic and
enjoyed doing Mere on air with you each and every week.
(00:49):
So in a sense i'll miss.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That, yeah yeah, so no, but it has been great, mate,
And thank you for everything you've done for the West
Coast and you know, and seven Excess and keeping the
dream alive seven Excess, which is great.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Indeed. Yeah, it's been my pleasure. It's been my pleasure.
All right, Let's get on with the show now. I've
got a question here. I live in zen and I
have submitted an abatement notice request to the council every
year for three years on my neighboring property who has
grass over one point five meters long. The council have
acted and organized a contractor to mow this grass. However,
(01:26):
this contractor has just whipped a whipper snip to the
long grass and left it sitting on the ground. The
whole point of this abatement notice was to remove the
fire risks from our community. How is this removing the
risk when the long, dry grass is just lying on
the ground. If anything, it has added to the fire risk.
He made a tough one for you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, it's a bit of a tough one. But yeah,
we'll follow that with task fire Service with regard to
this and slash grass is deemed less of a fire
rist than long growing grass. So the cut grass is
only removed from property when it exceeds Tasmanian and fire
serves guidelines. But you know, it's I guess with regard
(02:10):
to the abatement, so we still you know, even though
the council has engaged a contractor to to cut the
grass of that that resident or for the you know,
for the landowner. We still have to get that payment
back out of the landowner. So you know, until we
get that payment, the rate payers are paying for that
(02:32):
that abatement. So you know, we need to make sure
that the less time we spent, the better off it
is for rate payers until we can get that you know,
the money back off the landowner. So we keep it
down to what inside the Tasmanian Fire Service guidelines and
that's you know, that's to reduce that risk. But I
(02:55):
understand where the residents coming from, and it would be
better if we did take it away. But you know,
it is the cost of the rate payer as well
until we get that refunded from the landowner, which in
some cases we may not do until the property is
sold under the auction, which then there's a long lead
time also with being able to access in funds also,
(03:18):
so yeah, you know, it is difficult and it'd be
good if there was some legislation put in place by
the state government that we could do more than just
debating because of Irish reasons.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
All right, Well, I hope that's answered the question for
that listener this morning. It's yeah, it's amazing how much
is involved with this stuff. Actually it is.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And it has been an ongoing issue we've had for
quite some time. And there's something which whereas the Council
left taken to the Local Government Association of Tasmania in
the past about being able with some of our direlect
buildings around our towns as well, you know what, and
some of the issues with old cars, et cetera and
(04:03):
people's property that are just laying around. But there's nothing
we can do about it until it becomes a safety risk.
So we've been to LOGAT to see if they could
advocate the state government to make some changes in legislation,
but at this stage it hasn't gone anywhere, but we'll
continue to push the fact and because you know it
(04:24):
is it does make our communities look untidy, and you know,
the more that we can make our communities look so
I guess brew them up, the better it looks for
it comes through as well.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That's right, Yeah, that's a good point. All right. Well
let's go into a more a different area now Christmas
and details on your office closure over Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, so we'll be closed during the Christmas new period
from twelve noon Tuesday, the twenty fourth of December and
reopening normal business out eight thirty am Thursday, the second
of January. So it's the normal Christmas break. I guess
that most businesses take this time of the year, not
(05:11):
all businesses. They of course those that are self employed
businesses keep going and so to our major industries. But
you know it's always been in the Council of taking
that time off during the Christmas break. And if there
any dog related emergencies please contact police and of course
(05:33):
if you've got any emergencies relating to Council, please just
call the office number on six four seven one four
seven hundred and then they'll redirected to the on call personnel.
And of course you know we've mentioned this a few
times now SCO. If there's any highway issues around outside
(05:56):
of the town boundaries, please contact your Department of State
Growth on thirteen one hundred one three nine nine double three.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah all right, Well, the other Christmas thing we've got
to talk about is rubbish pickup over Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, a couple of changes there mate to the rubbish
collection over Christmas. So Monday to twenty thirty December, Zion
Straw and Linda and Gormeston Tuesday the twenty four for
December Queenstown and Thursday the twenty sixth of December with
Rosebury and Tayleer as normal, So just a couple of
(06:29):
changes there to the normal pickups.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Mate, it is the last beer on air for twenty
twenty four and my last mayor on air as well.
And we're with me Shane Pitt on the telephone right now.
And of course we want to remind people that it's
still open Community Planned two thousand and thirty five engagement sessions. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So the draft is now ready for available to view
online at West Coast twenty thirty five dot com dot
au or go into counsel and grab a printed copy.
But yeah, we'd like feedback on the draft just so
we make sure we've got everything right, everything that the
community put forward during the consultation period. So yeah, and
(07:11):
we're hoping that either the January or February meetings we'll
be able to endorse that and adopt the plan moving forward,
which will be exciting times for the council again given
the success of the twenty five community Plan.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Alrighty, well, we've got a couple of positions vacant at
the moment at the Council.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, we've got team leader in Queenstown vacant and applications
close today Friday, the twentieth of December, So if anyone
out there wants a job on council is an opportunity,
which is it's great and I guess it's for a
period of eight months, so it's only a short term
(07:59):
contract but just to cover some long service leads there,
but exciting for someone that might want to start a
bit of a campaign. But yeah, and also we've got
an executive officers position that available as well, which that
closes five pm Tuesday, twenty fourth of December, and that's
(08:20):
the exciting position as well. The how A has decided
to move on and to another exciting position that she's
she'll be staying on the West Coast, which is great
and she does a hell of a lot for the
zine community over there, and it's great to see that
(08:40):
she's staying in Zene and taking up a position over there,
which is pretty good position for her to take on.
And I think she'll she'll do that that position justice
that she's moving into, So that's great and you know,
we wish we wish her all the best. She's been
a certainly been a with counsel for a long period
(09:03):
of time and certainly has assisted the general manager myself
without an executive officer role, and it's been a certainly
a credit to her and I guess the work that
she's been able to do has been certainly well worth
while for counsel. And yeah, as I push a well
(09:24):
end of the future.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right, okay, we're going to finish off with the
reminder about food safety requirements.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, so the transition period has now ended for food
businesses to be compliant with the Food Backy Supervisor requirements
as set out by a Department of Health. So warnings
will be issued in January to relevant businesses that haven't
complied to that Food Safety Supervisors certificate. Yeah so, and
(09:53):
you know there are risks of infringements and all cancelations
of their food license for these continued to not be compliant.
So please business, if you are business of food, please
make sure you've done the Food Safety.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Supervisors very important. Absolutely All right, Well that's it. That's
what we've got for today. It's a bit of a
short one, but that's the way I go sometimes. But
look at once again, I want to thank you for
your support to myself and for the station and for
this particular segment as well. It's it's I know you're
(10:30):
a busy man, but you always make sure that you're
available in some capacity for mere on air. So we
want to thank you for that and wish you and
Sue of course all the best for Christmas and the
whole family and well, you know we'll keep in touch,
I think, but all the best to you for the
future made and thanks once again once again for everything.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Thank you and Angela and have yourself have a merry
Christmas in the safe one and to all our residents
out there well and those tourists that are traveling, you know,
have a merry Christmas in the safe new year. And
you know we'll see you back in twenty twenty five.
And yeah, I know it's Mayor on air does give
(11:12):
the opportunity for people to ask questions. I guess it's
one thing that we have seen over this past twelve
months that you know, the council doors are open and
we are open to answer questions wherever we can, and
of course we'll continue that into the future as well.
And it's through seven Excess and Meyor on air that
(11:34):
we're able to do. It's one avenue that people can
ask questions and get a little bit of feedback on
what's going on in our community.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So yeah, that's exactly right. All right, Well thanks for
your time today and well that's a wrap, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Mate, no worries and yeah, all the best.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Thank you very much, Thank you, mayor, Mayor Shame Pitt'.
That's it for this year on Mayor on air, we
thank for Mayor Shame pit once again. Seven Excess. Back
to music right now with a couple of my favorite
ballads thirty eight Special and John Farnham
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