Our leadership team

Our General Manager

The General Manager is responsible for the overall performance of the Council as well as Executive Services to the Mayor and Councillors, Organisational Development, and Media and Communications. Our acting General Manager is Greig Schuetrumpf who has over 30 years of experience in the Local and State Government.

Greig

 

Our Directors

Director Corporate Services and Strategy

Corporate Services is responsible for finance, the collection of rates, governance and support services, insurance and risk management, maintenance of records, information systems, and customer support. Corporate Services also provides support to other departments of Council to enable them to fulfil their responsibilities to the community.

Acting Director City Assets

The Director City Assets is responsible for the planning for and delivery and performance of the City’s assets. The role provides professional advice to the Mayor, Councillors and key community stakeholders, and manages the interface between major development and city infrastructure requirements.

Key functional areas of responsibility include:

  • Roads and Traffic
  • Open Space, urban forest and ecology
  • Building Services and Fleet
  • Strategic Asset Services and Innovation, engineering
  • Project Management Office, major projects and development interface

 

Director Environment and Planning

Community and Environmental Planning is responsible for all statutory planning matters such as the assessment of development applications and subdivisions, strategic planning, maintaining and upgrading the City’s planning framework, community and corporate strategic planning, environmental health, sustainability, building services, approval of construction certificates, building inspections, health, waste and law enforcement.

Harjeet Spence

Director Community Culture and Leisure

Community, Culture and Leisure is responsible for providing direct services to the community including libraries, children’s centres, community development programs, arts and cultural initiatives, community centres, recreation centres and swimming pools, as well as place management, events, economic development, and community engagement.