Rising Star Award for City employee

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Rising Star Award for City employee

 

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22 February 2010
Rising Star Award for City employee
City of Gosnells Senior Accountant Linnet Blair has won the prestigious 2010 Rising Star Finance Professional Award in recognition of her excellent accounting ability and strong work performance.
The Local Government Managers Association WA presented its awards on 12 February at the conclusion of the Finance Professionals Conference with two winners in the rising star category.
Ms Blair said she had not expected to win the award and was just pleased that her Manager Frazer Sullivan had nominated her for the prize.
She said her success was due to the support and encouragement she received at work.
“I really do enjoy working for the City of Gosnells,” she said.
“I’ve been given the opportunity to grow and develop in my role.”
Ms Blair said being an accountant was not an obvious choice even after she completed a double degree at Edith Cowan University earning a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Management).
She travelled overseas after completing her studies and took on her first local government role as an Assistant Accountant with the Town of Cambridge in March 2006.
The City hired her as an Assistant Accountant in October 2006 and she was named Employee of the Year in 2009.
“It was really sheer chance that I ended up working in local government as an accountant,” Ms Blair said.
“But I do have a passion for numbers and puzzles, that’s just the way my brain works.
“I’m currently studying for my CPA qualification.”
Manager Financial Services Frazer Sullivan said Ms Blair’s exceptional accounting ability was immediately obvious and she was promoted to Financial Accountant within four months of being hired.
She spent two years in that role before being promoted to Senior Accountant.
“Linnet is a remarkable person,” Mr Sullivan said.
“And she is a truly worthy winner of the Rising Star Award.”



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No State heritage listing for Thornlie tree

17 February 2010

The Heritage Council of WA has determined that a Thornlie Yellow Box tree is not of State cultural significance and will not be entered on the State Register of Heritage Places.

The tree, located on the verge of 100 Hume Road, Thornlie is at the centre of a protest by a local resident about its planned removal by the City of Gosnells.

Heritage Council Executive Director Graeme Gammie said the State Register was reserved for places of significant cultural value to the State.

Following a preliminary review, both the Heritage Council’s Register Committee and the full board of the Heritage Council determined that the tree was unlikely to cross the threshold for entry into the State Register of Heritage Places and a full assessment was not warranted. Accordingly, the nomination will not be progressed for entry into the State Register.

Mr Gammie said the Heritage Council expedited this matter because of the interest shown by the community.

“The removal of trees in both the public and private domain is often an emotive issue, and is periodically of great community concern. However, these concerns most often relate to issues of local amenity and local cultural significance as is the case with the Thornlie tree,” he said.

Mr Gammie said the native Yellow Box was not rare as a verge tree in Australia and was one of a variety of trees planted along Hume Road.

There is currently no evidence that the street tree planting in Hume Road is characteristic of Thornlie, or Gosnells as a whole.

“In contrast, the avenue of fig trees in Dongara were placed on the State Register because they are a rare example of this species being planted in WA as an avenue arrangement and have made a significant contribution to the town’s sense of place since 1906,” Mr Gammie said.

There are only three individually listed trees or groups of trees on the State Register including the Proclamation Tree in Fremantle which was planted in 1890 to commemorate the granting of responsible government to WA. A number of other trees are also included on the State Register because they form part of a significant place or precinct.

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