BAG NEWS ….
Booringa Action Group is currently undertaking many projects of benefit to the Mitchell community. As you may be aware, we are working on:
Establishing a permanent dentist in Mitchell
Building a new child care centre
Developing a website
Creating some additional walk/cycle tracks
Getting the sand out of the weir
There are clearly some big projects that may seem unachievable, but we firmly believe that if a committed group can focus their efforts then these projects can be achieved. For this reason, we are actively seeking to increase our membership base to assist us in undertaking our current and future projects. The more people we can get involved, the better the results. In our current structure, members are not required or expected to attend our general meetings. Members join a project working party to focus on their own area of interest. It is anticipated that they will meet as often as needed to progress their projects. Reporting processes are being established to ensure adequate communication back to the Management Committee. The Management Committee will take care of the day-to-day operations, to allow the project working parties to get on with their job! Memberships are now due for the 2009/2010 financial year. Please contact me to request a Membership Application Form.
The June General Meeting is being held tonight, 7.00 pm at the BAG cottage.
Spa Complex – In response to matters raised by BAG in our last email update, the Roma Regional Council quickly undertook a review of the spa management, and produced a report which provides a number of initiatives to be implemented with a view to improving current operations.
Our first Aussie Host workshop is to be held in Mitchell on Monday 29 June 2009, 8.30 am to 5.00 pm. Cost for this workshop is $195 per person, including training manual, tea/coffee and light lunch. Please contact me for a registration form.
AussieHost is a one-day customer service training program that focuses on:
· What is customer service excellence?
· Workplace and professional presentation
· Excelling in communication skills
· Effective telephone communication
· Handling customer complaints
· Who are your customers and how best to serve them.
BAG PROJECT UPDATES ………
Main Roads
There has been some media attention recently given to the options being considered for the necessary upgrades to the bridge at Mitchell to accommodate Type 2 Road Trains. Contact is to be made with Main Roads with a view to arranging a public meeting to discuss current proposed alternatives. If you have any feedback on this issue, please let me know so that it can be passed on.
GENERAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION ………
Don’t forget the Sport and Recreation Community Forum is being held in the Mitchell tonight at 6.00 pm at the Council Chambers. Also attending this meeting are Mike Halliburton Associates and Transplan Pty Ltd who are currently preparing a recreation trails strategy for Roma Regional Council as part of the broader Sport and Recreation Plan. The trails project is aimed at developing a strategy for the future development and maintenance of an integrated network of multi-use recreation trails throughout Roma Regional Council. This network should provide quality recreational experiences and access to open space destinations. For this purpose, a recreation trail is any corridor, route or pathway for recreational purposes such as walking, mountain biking, canoeing or recreational horse riding - and which passes through or has a strong connection with the natural environment, open spaces and cultural heritage. A survey has been prepared to assist with future trails planning. The survey is seeking information on who uses what existing trails, for how long, how often and why. It also asks for suggestions for improvements on existing trails, and potential new trails. The trails identified in the survey are trails that we know exist from published sources such as the Council website, Tourism Queensland website and brochures and Visitor Information Centres. All existing trails may not have been recorded. The survey allows you to indicate what other existing trails there are…….If you would like a copy of this survey, please email me.
Until next week! J
Cheers,
Sharyn.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Update - 21 May 2009
BAG NEWS ….
Planning is well underway for our Blueprint for the Bush funded project - liveMitchell 2020 Community Workshops. The aim of this project is to increase the capacity of the Booringa community to lead and manage change and development. The following five workshops will be delivered over 5 months, [hopefully] beginning in July 2009.
· Communication
· Leadership
· Time management
· Project management
· Governance / Committee obligations
·
Workshops will be available to all members of the community, with no cost for participants!
Annual BAG memberships are due 1 July. Membership renewals are being prepared for existing members. If you have been considering joining BAG to support our activities, please reply and I will send you a membership application form.
GENERAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION ………
Roma Regional Council Sport and Recreation Plan - community forum dates have been set for the week of 9 -12 June in each area within the region. The Mitchell forum will be held on Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 6.00 pm at the Mitchell Council Chambers. RSVP to Fiona Vincent by Friday 5 June 2009 on 1300 007 662. Please consider taking the opportunity to attend to have your say about Sport & Recreation within the area over the next 10 years. This covers facilities, parks and playgrounds, trails and walking tracks, direction of clubs, training and coaching needs, and so much more. If any person or club/group cannot make the forum, they can speak with Fiona Vincent or the appointed consultant prior to or after the meeting. Roma Regional Council is seeking assistance from all interested community members in writing a comprehensive and workable Regional Sport and Recreation Plan.
Mitchell Scout Group – The Annual General Meeting for the Mitchell Scout Group is to be held at the Mitchell Community Hall (the spa complex) on Monday 1 June 2009 starting at 5.30 pm. All are welcome to attend, so please come along and show your support for renewing this activity which provides very beneficial activities for our local youth.
Pink Bowls Fun Day – Bring the family along and support the Queensland Cancer Fund. Saturday 6 June 2009 at the Mitchell Bowls Club. Names in by 1.30 pm, play starts 2.00 pm. Dress PINK – prizes for best dressed adult and child. Multi Draw Raffle – Spider – Sausage Sizzle. For more information, please contact Julie Kennedy MHEP on 4623 7236 or the Mitchell Bowling Club on 4623 1267. Local businesses can donate to the multi-draw, any contribution would be greatly appreciated! Donated items can be left with Sharyn or Jenny at the Landcare/BAG office.
Dateclaimer: The Amby Progress Association will be holding their next Charity Auction on Sunday, 9 August 2009 at the Amby Hotel. If you are having a clean out over the next few months, please consider donating your surplus goods to this Charity Auction. More details to come!
Until next week! J
Cheers,
Sharyn.
If you’ve missed an update, please visit http://booringaactiongroup.blogspot.com
Planning is well underway for our Blueprint for the Bush funded project - liveMitchell 2020 Community Workshops. The aim of this project is to increase the capacity of the Booringa community to lead and manage change and development. The following five workshops will be delivered over 5 months, [hopefully] beginning in July 2009.
· Communication
· Leadership
· Time management
· Project management
· Governance / Committee obligations
·
Workshops will be available to all members of the community, with no cost for participants!
Annual BAG memberships are due 1 July. Membership renewals are being prepared for existing members. If you have been considering joining BAG to support our activities, please reply and I will send you a membership application form.
GENERAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION ………
Roma Regional Council Sport and Recreation Plan - community forum dates have been set for the week of 9 -12 June in each area within the region. The Mitchell forum will be held on Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 6.00 pm at the Mitchell Council Chambers. RSVP to Fiona Vincent by Friday 5 June 2009 on 1300 007 662. Please consider taking the opportunity to attend to have your say about Sport & Recreation within the area over the next 10 years. This covers facilities, parks and playgrounds, trails and walking tracks, direction of clubs, training and coaching needs, and so much more. If any person or club/group cannot make the forum, they can speak with Fiona Vincent or the appointed consultant prior to or after the meeting. Roma Regional Council is seeking assistance from all interested community members in writing a comprehensive and workable Regional Sport and Recreation Plan.
Mitchell Scout Group – The Annual General Meeting for the Mitchell Scout Group is to be held at the Mitchell Community Hall (the spa complex) on Monday 1 June 2009 starting at 5.30 pm. All are welcome to attend, so please come along and show your support for renewing this activity which provides very beneficial activities for our local youth.
Pink Bowls Fun Day – Bring the family along and support the Queensland Cancer Fund. Saturday 6 June 2009 at the Mitchell Bowls Club. Names in by 1.30 pm, play starts 2.00 pm. Dress PINK – prizes for best dressed adult and child. Multi Draw Raffle – Spider – Sausage Sizzle. For more information, please contact Julie Kennedy MHEP on 4623 7236 or the Mitchell Bowling Club on 4623 1267. Local businesses can donate to the multi-draw, any contribution would be greatly appreciated! Donated items can be left with Sharyn or Jenny at the Landcare/BAG office.
Dateclaimer: The Amby Progress Association will be holding their next Charity Auction on Sunday, 9 August 2009 at the Amby Hotel. If you are having a clean out over the next few months, please consider donating your surplus goods to this Charity Auction. More details to come!
Until next week! J
Cheers,
Sharyn.
If you’ve missed an update, please visit http://booringaactiongroup.blogspot.com
Update - 15 May 2009
BAG NEWS ….
Our May General Meeting was held on Wednesday night, and although not a huge turn out, it was a productive meeting.
We resolved to write to council regarding the current operation of the spa complex. We have received some not so positive feedback from the community and tourists as to the level of customer service, cleanliness, and a general lack of atmosphere to the complex. The Mitchell community relies heavily on the spa as the major draw card for tourism, and without a level of standard to ensure repeat business, the whole community suffers. We need to harness every opportunity for local economic stimulus, and to miss out on those tourist dollars is of detriment to local businesses with flow on effects to the whole community.
We have had a prospective lessee come to have a look at the River Boat! It would be great to have this asset being put to some use, given that we are unable to use it in the Maranoa River.
Customer Service – Isn’t it obvious? Booringa Action Group is making arrangements for our first AussieHost customer service training program. Thousands of untraceable dollars are lost from the Booringa economy each year from customers choosing to shop elsewhere due to poor or indifferent service. In today’s competitive marketplace, if you don’t provide good service you won’t attract customers, and without customers, you don’t have a business! While it may seem obvious, Australian businesses in general have been slow to develop a service culture. Many businesses still reflect a lack of customer focus, with owners believing that their service levels do not need improvement – we’re okay, they say, it’s everyone else that needs to lift their game. In a highly competitive marketplace, it is the ability and willingness to deliver service excellence that lifts a business above its competitors and brings commercial success. Customer service is real, it matters, and more importantly, it is achievable. AussieHost is a nationally recognised customer service training program delivered across Australia. This exciting and dynamic training program focuses on interpersonal communications, customer relations and service. It builds personal, professional and community pride and inspires a greater commitment to providing better service. Most importantly it provides participants with the appropriate skills and knowledge to deliver high quality customer service. AussieHost’s unique approach focuses not only on skill development, but on versatility, innovation, self reliance and self confidence and ensures that the individual takes responsibility for their service delivery. Through successful facilitation, participants learn that a positive attitude to service and improved skills can make a difference to their personal development and their business opportunities.
BAG PROJECT UPDATES ………
Child Care Centre – C&K have advised that they are currently reviewing our proposal and we hope to hear back from them in the not too distant future, while BAG, the Kindy and Council continue collecting support for this project.
Sand / Weir – SunWater have replied to our letter bringing the current state of the weir to their attention and asking for their assistance. SunWater realises the problem, but there is little they can do, as the operation of their ‘business’ expects users of the facility to pay for any maintenance work. As it is classed as a storage facility for irrigation, it is obviously not viable to ask the ‘users’ to pay for it to be dredged! So back to the drawing board, and we will continue negotiations with dredge operators and explore further possible markets for the sand.
Dentist – A representative from the dentist practice visited Mitchell last week, to inspect facilities and meet with local stakeholders. This was a very successful visit, with all good news regarding available facilities. There are a few more details still to be finalised and signed off on, but it all looks very promising for a dentist in Mitchell to become a reality very soon.
GENERAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION ………
Qcoss social policy and advocacy forums 2009 – You are invited to attend the QCOSS Social Policy forum taking place at the Roma Neighbourhood Centre on the 26 May 2009 from 10 til 2pm. These forums will - give you and your organisation the opportunity to comment on social issues faced by your community and workshop recommendations to address them; analyse opportunities for local advocacy arising from the state election; report back on QCOSS advocacy work in 2008 and the local and state-wide results of the previous round of policy forums; improve QCOSS’ regional networks and mechanisms for feeding in to our policy and advocacy work. To register, please call Allyson Spears on 3004 6900.
Port-a-bowl – Active Roma has purchased a portable 10-pin bowling kit as a fun and enjoyable new sport for Roma and outlying communities (including Mitchell!). Port-a-bowl consist of five lanes and five sets of pins and balls which can be set up in a community hall or undercover area. Port-a-bowl is a modified 10-pin bowling game which could teach people of all ages and abilities the basic skills of 10-pin bowling, while developing the co-ordination of players working together. To access the Port-a-bowl kit, free of charge, for your community group, please phone Jasmine Glasson on 0428 200 033.
Until next week! J
Cheers,
Sharyn.
If you’ve missed an update, please visit http://booringaactiongroup.blogspot.com
Our May General Meeting was held on Wednesday night, and although not a huge turn out, it was a productive meeting.
We resolved to write to council regarding the current operation of the spa complex. We have received some not so positive feedback from the community and tourists as to the level of customer service, cleanliness, and a general lack of atmosphere to the complex. The Mitchell community relies heavily on the spa as the major draw card for tourism, and without a level of standard to ensure repeat business, the whole community suffers. We need to harness every opportunity for local economic stimulus, and to miss out on those tourist dollars is of detriment to local businesses with flow on effects to the whole community.
We have had a prospective lessee come to have a look at the River Boat! It would be great to have this asset being put to some use, given that we are unable to use it in the Maranoa River.
Customer Service – Isn’t it obvious? Booringa Action Group is making arrangements for our first AussieHost customer service training program. Thousands of untraceable dollars are lost from the Booringa economy each year from customers choosing to shop elsewhere due to poor or indifferent service. In today’s competitive marketplace, if you don’t provide good service you won’t attract customers, and without customers, you don’t have a business! While it may seem obvious, Australian businesses in general have been slow to develop a service culture. Many businesses still reflect a lack of customer focus, with owners believing that their service levels do not need improvement – we’re okay, they say, it’s everyone else that needs to lift their game. In a highly competitive marketplace, it is the ability and willingness to deliver service excellence that lifts a business above its competitors and brings commercial success. Customer service is real, it matters, and more importantly, it is achievable. AussieHost is a nationally recognised customer service training program delivered across Australia. This exciting and dynamic training program focuses on interpersonal communications, customer relations and service. It builds personal, professional and community pride and inspires a greater commitment to providing better service. Most importantly it provides participants with the appropriate skills and knowledge to deliver high quality customer service. AussieHost’s unique approach focuses not only on skill development, but on versatility, innovation, self reliance and self confidence and ensures that the individual takes responsibility for their service delivery. Through successful facilitation, participants learn that a positive attitude to service and improved skills can make a difference to their personal development and their business opportunities.
BAG PROJECT UPDATES ………
Child Care Centre – C&K have advised that they are currently reviewing our proposal and we hope to hear back from them in the not too distant future, while BAG, the Kindy and Council continue collecting support for this project.
Sand / Weir – SunWater have replied to our letter bringing the current state of the weir to their attention and asking for their assistance. SunWater realises the problem, but there is little they can do, as the operation of their ‘business’ expects users of the facility to pay for any maintenance work. As it is classed as a storage facility for irrigation, it is obviously not viable to ask the ‘users’ to pay for it to be dredged! So back to the drawing board, and we will continue negotiations with dredge operators and explore further possible markets for the sand.
Dentist – A representative from the dentist practice visited Mitchell last week, to inspect facilities and meet with local stakeholders. This was a very successful visit, with all good news regarding available facilities. There are a few more details still to be finalised and signed off on, but it all looks very promising for a dentist in Mitchell to become a reality very soon.
GENERAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION ………
Qcoss social policy and advocacy forums 2009 – You are invited to attend the QCOSS Social Policy forum taking place at the Roma Neighbourhood Centre on the 26 May 2009 from 10 til 2pm. These forums will - give you and your organisation the opportunity to comment on social issues faced by your community and workshop recommendations to address them; analyse opportunities for local advocacy arising from the state election; report back on QCOSS advocacy work in 2008 and the local and state-wide results of the previous round of policy forums; improve QCOSS’ regional networks and mechanisms for feeding in to our policy and advocacy work. To register, please call Allyson Spears on 3004 6900.
Port-a-bowl – Active Roma has purchased a portable 10-pin bowling kit as a fun and enjoyable new sport for Roma and outlying communities (including Mitchell!). Port-a-bowl consist of five lanes and five sets of pins and balls which can be set up in a community hall or undercover area. Port-a-bowl is a modified 10-pin bowling game which could teach people of all ages and abilities the basic skills of 10-pin bowling, while developing the co-ordination of players working together. To access the Port-a-bowl kit, free of charge, for your community group, please phone Jasmine Glasson on 0428 200 033.
Until next week! J
Cheers,
Sharyn.
If you’ve missed an update, please visit http://booringaactiongroup.blogspot.com
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