Council proposes to contribute $1.645 million to emergencies services including State Emergency Services (SES), NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) and Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW).

Council plays a significant role in the event of an emergency in the region. Council has a Local Emergency Management Officer (LEMO) who helps establish an Emergency Operations Centre to coordinate a multi-agency response in the event of large-scale emergencies. This officer also assists with communication between relevant agencies as well as providing administrative support.

In the event of emergencies, Council also provides traffic management, clearing of roads and supplying of heavy plant equipment. For example, closing roads subject to flash flooding.

Council supplies at the request of the RFS, heavy plant equipment including graders for fire breaks and containment lines, excavators to clear trees and water trucks for RFS trucks to refill from. These operators and plant equipment need to be redeployed from their core function of roads maintenance, which impacts Council’s day to day operations.

This support and assistance is done in accordance with specific government legislation all with the main priority keeping people in the region safe.

Shaping Plans to Advance Regional Culture (2020-2025) is a five-year framework detailing the priorities for Council’s development for arts and culture in the Dubbo Regional LGA. It serves to define the key priorities and actions that collectively will help to support cultural growth across our region.

Through SPARC Council are directly partnering with community groups, creative practitioners, service and education providers to assist with programming and project support.

Over the last 3 years Council has supported more than 15 organisations each year, presented more than 80 events and provided funding of more than $45,000 directly to the community.

SPARC enables core creative service providers to facilitate a range of programming across several disciplines, making access available to the public. The framework also supports creative organisations and providers to become viable as standalone organisations through the growth of opportunities, audiences and markets.

Council has delivered on four Destination Partnership Programs for the Dubbo Regional LGA, with development and implementation of destination marketing identified in the Community Strategic Plan.

Associated with these programs is a ‘fee for marketing’ service, which has been delivered for over 10 years and attracted high industry support.

Council’s collaborative approach also extends to a strategic marketing partnership with the Great Western Plains Councils (Warrumbungles, Coonamble, Narromine, Gilgandra and Warren). This partnership has been ongoing since the Great Western Plains brand was developed in 2014.

The Dubbo Regional Destination Partnership Program currently focuses on two key target markets; visitor and new resident attraction.

Each program is delivered in partnership with local businesses who share target markets of visitor and new resident attraction with marketing activity underpinned by the production of aspirational guides and content across dubbo.com.au and visit wellington.com.au.

Partnership fees enable the Dubbo Region to undertake marketing in partnership with Destination NSW and support initiatives to attract and retain investment in the region.

In alliance with the Aboriginal communities of Dubbo and Wellington, the Wellington Aboriginal Action Panel (WAAP) requested a Partnership Agreement be endorsed by Council to ensure Wellington Aboriginal community were being represented and voices were included by Council when it comes to projects, issues and celebrations that concern the Wellington community.

The Wellington Aboriginal Action Panel DRAFT Partnership Agreement has been collated by the members of the WAAP in alliance with the Dubbo Aboriginal Community Working Party (DACWP) Partnership Agreement.

The Partnership Agreement is a joint initiative and seeks to achieve collaborated common goals between WAAP and Council enhancing working relationships and between the Aboriginal people of Wellington and Council. Council sees the WAAP as a representative body for the Wellington Aboriginal community.

Whilst Council and the WAAP are committed to this partnership agreement, both remain autonomous bodies and retain their autonomy.