Equity important
Yarriambiack Shire Council candidate Kylie Zanker has listed equity for all in her community as a primary goal if she wins a seat in this month’s local government elections.
“I have served as a councillor with Yarriambiack Shire Council from 2008-2020, including two years as mayor from 2011-2013,” she said.
“Over this time my aim was, and has always been, to ensure that our community is sustainable, vibrant and a proactive place in which to live and work for generations to come.
“Communication and a positive, open relationship with residents and council is the key.
“Residents are asking for services and programs that are sustainable, roads and infrastructure that meet the current communities’ needs and support for business and tourism.
“Partnerships and working together with the council to ensure that we work on our communities’ needs and goals is what will drive us forward as a community and shire and I’m determined to support this.
“We need to advocate for recurrent funding, sustainable revenue sources and look at balanced budgets. These are some of the key strategies to look at in our council plan when delivering the services that our communities want, need and deserve.
“My goal is to offer equity for all within our community – business, agriculture, families, aged, youth. It’s our diversity that makes Warracknabeal a vibrant and strong community to belong to and working to ensure we have service retention, if not growth is the key to this.
“Our community deserves to be funded appropriately for the services that are delivered and I will advocate and strive to ensure that we as a community and region are represented.
“Funding and attracting grants for infrastructure, roads, rubbish, tourism are all areas that need to be focused on – our community has said that this is a priority.
“I believe my past terms on council demonstrate that I am passionate, invested and work hard to ensure our community is represented and gets ‘what it needs’. If re-elected I will continue to uphold this.
“Open communication, discussion and honest dialogue ensure that the community and council can work together – I truly believe and often say ‘it takes a community to raise a child and its takes a community of ‘ordinary’ people to achieve the extraordinary’ and I believe that’s what our community is – extraordinary.”