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The school holidays are a great time to develop new skills and participate in fun activities!
Gunnedah Shire Council offer a school holiday program for both Primary and High school aged kids to participate in each holiday period.
For the latest School holiday Program, click here. To book school holiday activities, visit The Civic.
The Role of the Youth Services Team is to provide leadership, skills development and empowerment opportunities for 12-25 year olds in the Gunnedah Shire.
Initiatives that support this objective include the quarterly School Holiday Program and the annual celebration of NSW Youth Week.
For more information on any of the Youth program, please contact Council's Youth Development Team, Gunnedah Shire Council on 02 6740 2100 or email council@gunnedah.nsw.gov.au
Street lighting infrastructure in Gunnedah Shire is provided by Essential Energy. Repairs to street lights are undertaken by Essential Energy and not Council, however Council does notify Essential Energy of street lights that are not operating or are experiencing other faults.
Any member of the community can also report faulty street lights and should do so directly to Essential Energy by way of the on-line reporting system.
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Gunnedah Shire Council has implemented a CCTV program for the Gunnedah central business district (CBD) with CCTV extended to include the eastern end of Conadilly Street.
The CBD CCTV Program has been highly successful and seeks to:
- Support local businesses through the prevention and reduction of street crime in the CBD
- Reduce alcohol related offences via an increased fear of detection and apprehension
- Improve the public’s general feeling of safety and security in regard to the CBD
- Provide accurate identification of offenders and events
CCTV POLICE REGISTER
If you have a CCTV system at your business or residential premises, you can help the police solve crime by registering your details online via the NSW Police Force CCTV Register ('the Register'). The Register is a database established to record the location of CCTV installations across NSW. Information stored in the Register has been collected and will be used for operational policing purposes.
Click here to access NSW Police Force - Register my business or residential CCTV details
A range of fact sheets explaining the new laws are now available:
Since 6 July 2015, smoking is also banned in commercial outdoor dining areas including:
- A seated dining area – an area in which seating is provided and in which food that has been purchased and served on plates or packaged for immediate consumption is consumed – but only while food is being consumed or is available for purchase there;
- Within 4 metres of a seated dining area on licenced premises or at a restaurant; or
- Within 10 metres of where food is sold or supplied for consumption at a food fair.
Since 7 January 2013, following the amendment to the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000, smoking has been banned in a number of public outdoor areas, including:
- Within 10 metres of children’s play equipment in an outdoor public place;
- In open areas of swimming pool complexes;
- In spectator areas of sports grounds or other recreational areas during organised sporting events;
- At public transport stops and stations, including the area where people gather or queue to wait for the bus, taxi, or light rail; and
- Within 4 metres of a pedestrian access point to a public building.
The new laws focus on selecting public outdoor settings that are often frequented by children and families, or can be crowded, or where people have limited opportunity to avoid second hand smoke.
Help clean up our local community by reporting intentional damage and graffiti. Intentional damage and graffiti is where property belonging to you or another person is intentionally damaged, destroyed or graffitied and the intention is deliberate, malicious or reckless.
For example:
- Your fence or building has been spray painted or tagged.
- The tyres on your car were slashed when it was parked at the railway station.
- Council – Phone: 02 6740 2100 (Council property offences)
- Police Assistance Line (PAL) – Phone: 131 444 - to report private property graffiti/vandalism
- Crime Stoppers – Phone: 1800 333 000 - to report criminal/suspicious behaviour anonymously
- Graffiti Hotline – Phone: 1800 707 125 - Free call 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday (Council and private property related offences) www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/graffiti-hotline
- NSW Police Force Community Portal: https://portal.police.nsw.gov.au
The NSW Government has established an annual state-wide graffiti removal and prevention day known as 'Graffiti Removal Day'. The aim of the day is to encourage people to volunteer their time and get involved in the removal and prevention of graffiti. Graffiti Removal Day occurs in October each year and is a joint initiative between the New South Wales Government and Rotary Down Under.
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Graffiti is an act of vandalism and is against the law! Gunnedah Shire Council has a ‘no tolerance’ policy with graffiti related offences and is working with the community to reduce graffiti and to promote the Shire as a clean and attractive community. Council aims to remove any graffiti from its own properties and assets within 48 hours of it being discovered and/or reported. Homeowners are also encouraged to remove graffiti from their own property to discourage offenders.
Penalties Apply - The following penalties can be applied by courts:
- Marking property can attract a fine up to $440, or, for an aggravated offence, $2,200 or 12 months imprisonment
- Possessing a graffiti implement with intent can attract a fine up to $1,100 or six months imprisonment
- Persons under 18 years carrying spray paint cans in public can attract a fine of up to $440 or six months imprisonment
- Bill posting can attract a fine of up to $440
Under the NSW Crimes Act (1900), there are penalties of up to five years in prison for maliciously damaging property.
