Invitations and new experiences keep on coming fast. Yesterday morning I attended a special breakfast convened in, of all places, New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM) by consultants hired by the newly established Armidale Regional Council (ARC - our local government) to position Armidale. By position, I mean market our region to businesses, potential residents, tourists, other tiers of government and so on. Basically c. 12 invitees were considering what makes us special and enviable and I knew many of the participants who were civic / community leaders from a variety of backgrounds. It was rather nice to be recognised as someone able to make a worthwhile contribution!
In fact the meeting went, I thought, very well. And judging by the consultants' reactions I'd say we made a considerable impression and that their final report to ARC will be impressive. By the way, ARC emerged from the amalgamation of Armidale City Council and Guyra Shire Council which was located to the north of us. We cover a large area - approximately 150km E-W and 70km N-S, but only have a resident population of c. 30,000. That's a density of c. 3 people per sq km. At the point of merger, all the existing Councillors were sacked and their role assumed by a single 'administrator', Dr Ian Tiley. I've known him for quite a while because he studied for his PhD at my university and we were already paired on LinkedIn. By the way, I've been approached as a possible candidate for the ARC's first elections scheduled for September 2017, but I won't say more at this point.
Anyway, I have a couple of pictures of the event taken with my mobile phone:
AS
In fact the meeting went, I thought, very well. And judging by the consultants' reactions I'd say we made a considerable impression and that their final report to ARC will be impressive. By the way, ARC emerged from the amalgamation of Armidale City Council and Guyra Shire Council which was located to the north of us. We cover a large area - approximately 150km E-W and 70km N-S, but only have a resident population of c. 30,000. That's a density of c. 3 people per sq km. At the point of merger, all the existing Councillors were sacked and their role assumed by a single 'administrator', Dr Ian Tiley. I've known him for quite a while because he studied for his PhD at my university and we were already paired on LinkedIn. By the way, I've been approached as a possible candidate for the ARC's first elections scheduled for September 2017, but I won't say more at this point.
Anyway, I have a couple of pictures of the event taken with my mobile phone:
AS
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