Library Customer Service Centres
Woodside:
Woodside Library
28 Onkaparinga Valley Rd
Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Stirling:
Coventry Library
63 Mt Barker Rd
Monday-Friday 8:30am - 5pm
Gumeracha:
Gumeracha Civic Centre
45 Albert St
Mon, Wed, Fri: 11am - 2pm
Tues and Thurs: 2pm - 5pm
Mayor:
Bill Spragg
Chief Executive Officer:
Andrew Aitken
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From the Mayor...
H i l l s V o i c e - y o u r c o m m u n i t y n e w s p a p e r , y o u r v o i c e i n t h e H i l l s
Over the next couple of years the NBN will be rolled out through many of our towns, vastly increasing
the speed of connections to the internet and improving the community’s access to online information.
Council has been successful in obtaining grant funding for a digital hub to help prepare residents to
take advantage of the improved internet access. The Stirling Business Association was also
successful in getting a grant to work with business so they can explore ways to improve online
commerce.
As part of the NBN roll out, we will be revamping Council’s website and offering more opportunities
to interact with Council online. We will be exploring ways of improving our communications with
residents using cyberspace. For those who will not have access to the fibre NBN has other solutions.
Several parts of our Council already have access to subsidised NBN satellite connections, which
although not as good as the fibre, are a thousand times better than dial-up.
Our library service has been online for a number of years with many people consulting our catalogue, making reservations
and even borrowing eBooks immediately using the web interface. However, with the move to “one card” the number of
items available for loan will increase enormously. The one card system puts the catalogue of every library in South
Australia at your fingertips and allows you to borrow items from any library in the state.
Council is continually trying to improve the services it provides to the community and the way it operates. This makes it
paramount that we understand what you, the community, needs, wants and expects from Council, thus communication is
central to our satisfactory performance. In this edition of Hills Voice you will find we have, or are consulting, on a number
of different issues: bushfire protection protocol; trails network strategy; road and place naming policy; townships and
urban areas DPA and the annual budget. To help us prioritise the focus of our activities in our next year’s budget we are
again conducting the annual survey. I would encourage you to take the time to complete this survey so we can accurately
determine those areas of highest importance to our community. It is also important you tell us what area you live in so
we can understand the different expectations across our Council district. We know that not everyone needs or wants the
same things so we need information to help us deliver services strategically.
Bill Spragg, Mayor
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Lofty Aspirations -
Sustainable Actions:
Reviewing our Strategic Plan
Council is reviewing its Strategic Management Plan. This is the plan which
guides all of Council’s other plans, and sets the high level strategic goals that
Council wants to achieve over the next 20 years.
We’ve now collated all of the community responses and are in a position to
review all of the comments, tabling these to focus on what sort of community,
economy, environment and services our community would like to have in the
future. Thank you for your input.
The Adelaide Hills, Mt Barker, Barossa and Onkaparinga Councils
are collaborating with the University of Adelaide and Regional
Development Australia (Barossa) to pursue a Stage 1
commitment to National Heritage listing of the Mount Lofty
Ranges region. Following successful listing, the Councils will
consider lobbying the Australian Federal Government to lodge
a World Heritage Site (WHS) bid with the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The
World Heritage list seeks to encourage the identification, protection,
preservation and promotion of cultural and natural heritage around
the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
For more information, check out
Four regional Councils are going
ahead with Stage 1 of the Mount Lofty
Ranges World Heritage Project
Engaging
