Wollondilly Shire Council

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• Your Rate Notice Explained

  The below is a sample copy of Wollondilly Shire Council's Rates and Charges notice issued in July of each year. A PDF copy of the below document can be viewed by clicking here.
  
   
  
  Please click on the below headings for further information regarding your Rates and Charges Notice.

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• E-Rates Registration Form

  If you would like to receive your rates notice electronically, please read the below Terms and Conditions and complete the registration form.
  
  Terms & Conditions:
  The information collected is for the sole purpose of delivering rate and instalment notices by electronic mail.
  By registering to receive your rate and instalment notices by email they will no longer be sent as a paper document to you, or any person to whom paper notices for the nominated rate assessment were previously sent.
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• Work Experience

  Wollondilly Shire Council provides opportunities to support the community to gain work experience for career development when possible.
  
  We receive a large number of requests for work experience, so our work experience opportunities are aimed mainly at students currently studying.
  
  Work experience opportunities are available in the following areas of Council:
  
  Administration
  Animal Holding Facility
  Building Approvals
  Surveying
  Business Administration
  Child Care
  Civil Construction
  Customer Servic…

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• Council Forms A - Z

  Below you will find a list of Council forms.
  
  These forms are available either to print see (PDF) in the title where you can print off a copy and fill your details out manually, or if you would like to submit a form online, see Online in the title.
  
  If the form is displaying as "online form" and you would prefer to receive a paper version, you may request to do so by emailing council@wollondilly.nsw.gov.au.
  
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  Access to Applicants Personal Information (PDF)
  
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• Work

  While most of us have less control over our workplaces than we do over our homes, our commitment to reducing the damage to the environment should not stop when we get to work.
  
  Everyday at work we make many decisions about water, waste & energy. Therefore, the workplace provides us with a great opportunity to become an agent of change toward sustainability and lead and support the greening of our work cultures and the means of production.
  
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• Notice of Motion

  Notice of MotionA Notice of Motion (NOM) can be a request for action regarding any matter relevant to Council and must be moved, seconded and adopted in the same way a Motion is put up to Council to resolve.
  
  NOMs are submitted by Councillors and published in the Council meeting Agenda.
  
   
  
   

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• Car Pool

  If you have to use the car, those regular trips to work, the market or school can be done with others and you'll have more fun, use less petrol, and save money.
  
  If you have to use the car, regular trips we take to work, the market or school can be shared with others (co-workers, neighbours, other students) to reduce our car use. Express lanes, car pool parking spots at work, and online resources to connect you with other people travelling your way (not to mention increasing fuel costs) mak…

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• Save Paper and Forests

  The production of paper uses trees, chemicals, energy (greenhouse gases) and water. About one-third of the garbage we throw away is paper. Let's avoid, reduce, re-use and recycle at work too!
  
   
  
  About Saving Paper and ForestsThe ecological footprint of a single newspaper was once described as taking up the area covered by all the sheets of the newspaper laid side by side, for the period of a year.
  
  A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, ov…

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• Stormwater Management Charge

  As part of Council's commitment to improved stormwater infrastructure maintenance and healthy catchments; a Stormwater Management Charge (SMC) for residential and business premises has been implemented as part of the 2010/11 to 2015/16 Council Management Plan.
  
  The NSW Government introduced legislation in 2006 to enable all local councils to apply a stormwater management charge to residential and business properties, where Council supplies a stormwater service for new and/or additional stor…

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• Recycle Organic Waste

  Nutrient recycling is the foundation of life. Today's organic waste is tomorrow's lunch, so look after those worms and compost piles.
  
  Much of the journey toward sustainability involves us learning how to replenish nature as effectively as we have plundered her. Hence, establishing and maintaining the "food waste to compost to soil to food to food waste" cycle is both an efficient practice and a glimpse of the cycles we must learn to respect all around us.
  
  How to do it now!…

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• Use your recycled printer paper twice

  Use your recycled printer paper twicePaper, and printing on it, cost money. It consumes resources and could often be avoided.
  
  A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, over 1.2 tonnes of coal and an assortment of chemicals. The greenhouse gas emissions of this tonne of paper are approximately 8 tonnes (with a tonne of recycled paper emitting approximately 2 tonnes of greenhouse gases), according to the Federal Government's 2001 Green Office G…

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• Local jobs on offer for trainees and undergraduates, opening the door to careers at Wollondilly Council

  Young job seekers and students who live in the Wollondilly Local Government Area are invited to apply for a Local Skills Ready program that will kick start their careers, with more local opportunities than ever available in 2022.
  
  My Gateway, in partnership with Wollondilly Shire Council, is recruiting for 15 positions to be based at Council, with additional positions made possible thanks to funding from the Commonwealth and NSW Governments’ Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Package.
  
  The roles a…

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• Shire Hall Update - Kitchen & Amenities

  After a substantial amount of work, including restoration of some original features that were uncovered along the way, the Shire Hall Early Works program has been completed and we are moving into the next phase. Council has recently engaged a builder to construct a new kitchen and toilet amenities. These will be located on the library side of the main hall. The Council meeting chambers will also be relocated from the current Administration Building to the space formerly occupied by the Family Da…

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• Interim Heritage Order - 15 Mulhollands Road, Picton

  Under section 25 of the Heritage Act 1977, in August 2024, Wollondilly Shire Council made an Interim Heritage Order (IHO) on land at 15 Mulhollands Road (LOT 7 DP244398), PICTON to temporarily protect Aboriginal relics.
  
  Council resolved at its meeting of 25 February 2025 to support the IHO remaining effective for a period of 12 months. The IHO will now expire 31 August 2025.
  
   
  
  An IHO is a safeguard to provide protection where a property is not listed as a heritage item (as in this case). As r…

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• Join the Green Team

  Join or create a work team focused on dreaming up and implementing schemes to reduce the impact your workplace has on the environment.
  
   
  
  About "Green Teams"The understanding that workplaces have an important role to play in moving us towards sustainability is relatively new.
  
  Accordingly, many businesses and organisations remain unsure of how to put this into practice. Creating or joining committees, ideas groups, and Green Teams to focus on and implement pro-environmental change at…

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