Cr Kathy Duff - Parks Portfolio Reports - 13 June 2018

Kingaroy

• Winter Maintenance Program continues
• Preparations and Clean-up for the Kingaroy Show
• Delivery & Collection of bins for Burrandowan Races

Murgon, Wondai & Proston

• Gardens are getting planted out and mulched.
• Dingo Park -new bollards, paths and seating areas.
• Mowing has slowed down so winter jobs are happening. Oiling seats and tables and town centre clean-ups.
• Tree customer requests are now a priority as the mowing is beginning to slow down

Nanango & Blackbutt

• A few days cleaning up the last of the storm damaged trees around town
• Scheduled Work at the Bunya Mountains have now been completed
• Gardens are being prepared for flower planting
• Pruning of centre median trees and staking of trees for customer requests
• Trainee and Cert III amenity pruning units completed
• Some tidy up mowing to be completed
• Oiling of furniture started and to be completed
• Action Requests have all now been completed

Dams

• Council resumed the responsibility for the overall management and daily operations of Boondooma on 14 May 2018.  The existing Boondooma staff were retained.
• Council also resumed the responsibility for the management of Yallakool on 28 April 2018. The services of Sustainable Park Solutions were engaged by Council for a 12 month period to provide Council with assistance and park management business assistance with both parks.  New onsite managers for Yallakool are Murry and Belinda Urquhart.

Airports

• On 31 May 2018 an emergency exercise at the Kingaroy Airport was undertaken.  The exercise scenario was based around an aircraft that crashes on airport.

• RWY 05/23 was closed for the duration of the exercise to reduce the risk of operational aircraft coming within the vicinity of the exercise.
• A car wreck was used to help identify the destroyed aircraft fuselage.
• Six volunteers turned out to be passengers from the aircraft. Two “crash dummies” were also provided by the Queensland Fire Services and these were positioned in the car wreck “fuselage”. The volunteers took on varying degrees of injury from walking wounded to deceased. Make up was used to identify broken skin and bleeding.
• The response from all agencies was excellent and involved the Queensland Fire Services, Queensland Police Service, Queensland Ambulance Service, State Emergency Services, community members from The Kingaroy Music & Comedy Society and Council Staff. 
• We would like to thank all volunteers for their dedication and assistance on the day.