Minister meets cadet surveyor
Local Government Minister Shaun Leane used a visit to the Wimmera to meet a cadet employee in a municipal Women Building Surveyors Program.
Mr Leane spent time with Isabelle Fuller, taking part in the program at Northern Grampians Shire Council.
Local Government Victoria, in partnership with LGPRO, councils and training providers are running the $6.3-million State Government program.
The program has opened opportunities for 40 women to gain employment in Victorian councils across the state in what has been the historically and predominantly male field of building surveying.
Councils received $150,000 in funding through the program to train and subsidise the employment of a cadet.
Ms Fuller has started a Bachelor of Building Surveying through Victoria University and is now a municipal building surveyor cadet with Northern Grampians council’s Community Safety and Amenity Team.
Mayor Tony Driscoll said the government investment had helped solidify council’s commitment to gender equality and meet a shortage of building surveyors.
“We are grateful to the State Government for funding and subsidising the training and employment of Ms Fuller,” he said.
“This initiative has enabled us to provide an opportunity for a woman to become a fully qualified professional municipal building surveyor and assist council with a significant number of exciting residential and non-residential building projects that require approvals in our shire’s growing economy.”