Council Manager

Council Manager magazine has been launched to provide a strong flow of high-quality information to senior council managers about best practice initiatives being undertaken within local governments.

Published on a quarterly basis, Council Manager provides senior management with a rich stream of case studies about leading-edge local government management practices that managers can use to benchmark their own council’s performance.

The May/June edition of Council Manager magazine examines the methods that senior managers of councils facing rapid population growth are using to ensure their administrations effectively deal with the many growth-related issues they face.

This edition of Australia’s national magazine for senior local government managers includes commentary from a number of local government CEOs on how they are ensuring their management structures are best addressing the infrastructure, financial and employment challenges their organisations face as a result of rapid growth.

This edition also includes articles detailing Playford City Council’s leading long-term financial plan, and Campaspe Shire’s design of an innovative asset renewal strategy as part of a sweeping review of the council’s financial sustainability.

Also included in the May/June edition are articles looking at how councils have implemented initiatives designed to encourage more women to take up senior management positions.

An ongoing section within Council Manager is ‘Senior Positions’, which keeps track of appointments and resignations among the ranks of Australian local government CEOs and General Managers.

Council Manager is edited by Ben Hutchison.