NAIDOC Week 2020 - 11/11/2020 This week is NAIDOC Week and while it has been put back from its usual date in July due to COVID, it is still packed with fun things to d...
Walkington Award 2020 - 04/11/2020 I recently had the pleasure of announcing Sarah Lane as the 2020 Walkington Award recipient at St Luke’s College Year 12 Graduation Cerem...
WA Small Business Day - 28/10/2020 WA Small Business Day is coming up this Saturday. The aim of Small Business Day is to recognise and celebrate the contribution that small...
Our 2021 Projects – Bayly Av - 21/10/2020 To stimulate our local economy, the City is spending some $40 million this financial year on 107 projects. Although we have done larger s...
Deferred Rate Payment - 14/10/2020 Rate notices were sent out in the first week of August, accompanied by a letter from me to households explaining that the rates do not ha...
Try Local Finishes - 07/10/2020 The Try Local $100 voucher initiative officially came to an end last week. Our aim with Try Local cash was to inject as much money as qui...
Mayors Chair – Projects Dashboard - 30/09/2020 We have set out an ambitious target of completing 107 projects this financial year worth more than $40 million, that’s more than 2 projec...
Try Local Finishing - 23/09/2020 The countdown is NOW ON, folks: there is just one week left to spend your Try Local Cash! With your $100 expiring at midnight on 30 Septe...
EPiCentre OPENS ITS DOORS - 16/09/2020 I recently had the pleasure of attending the grand opening of the new Empowering People in Communities head office or EPiCentre based rig...
SPEND YOUR TRY LOCAL CASH - 09/09/2020 Time is running out to take advantage of the $100 Try Local vouchers that were sent out to every household across all City of Karratha tow...
2020/21 PROJECTS - 02/09/2020 We recently received some wonderful feedback from a visitor who mentioned the evident sense of pride and ownership of our City by our cou...
COMMUNITY AND SPORTING GRANTS - 26/08/2020 Over the past few weeks, I’ve been attempting to give you a bit more information on the variety of support initiatives the City has intro...
STATE RECOVERY PLAN - 19/08/2020 The State Government wants to get us all back to work and has been talking to business, industry, not for profit organisations, UnionsWA,...
RATE FREEZE - 12/08/2020 Rate notices for the 2020/21 year were sent out last week – most people with have received them by the end of this week. The rate notice ...
107 PROJECTS - 05/08/2020 If you have found it hard to find a builder lately, it’s because they have all been flat-out doing repair works after damage caused by Tr...
TRY LOCAL CASH - 29/07/2020 This week approximately 8500 households across all City of Karratha towns will receive a letter entitling them to $100 worth of free cash...
TOURISM INDUSTRY SUPPORT - 22/07/2020 When considering the second Tranche of the City’s business and community support initiatives announced recently, Council were keen to do ...
2021 BUDGET - 15/07/2020 Council endorsed the City’s 2020-21 budget this month. This budget balances a robust response to the pandemic and a commitment to deliver...
TRANCHE 2 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE - 08/07/2020 Last week Council endorsed nine additional support initiatives to help small businesses and community groups recover from COVID-19. These...
COSSACK - 01/07/2020 For the past 24 years the City has been managing State Government assets at Cossack. Council’s vision for Cossack is to enable low impact...
COVID SURVEY - 24/06/2020 As part of our response to the coronavirus pandemic, the City conducted a COVID-19 community survey from June 3 to 17. Our objective was...
THE NEW NORMAL - 17/06/2020 There’s no denying that COVID-19 has impacted all of us over the past few months and while we’re well on the road to recovery, we do have...
PHASE 3 RESTRICTIONS - 10/06/2020 On Saturday we entered Phase 3 of the State Government’s road map to ease COVID-19 restrictions. This was only three weeks after Phase 2 ...
CORONAVIRUS SURVEY - 03/06/2020 The COVID-19 global pandemic and the restrictions imposed to minimise the spread of the virus have been unprecedented and extraordinary. ...
