Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council

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Current 2008 Councilors are:
*Cr Ruth Gorringe
*Cr Raymond Sibley
*Cr Zina Prior
*Cr Mick Thaiday [ [http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/local/lg2008/PalmIslandAboriginalShireCouncil/results/councillor/district1.html Palm Island Aboriginal council - Undivided Council Summary] ]

The Chief Executive Officer of the Council is Barry Moyle, who is the former Mayor of the Johnstone Shire Council

History

The Palm Island Council received qualified audits for the financial years ending 2003-04, 2002-03 and 1999-2000. It received unqualified audits for the 2000-01 and 2001-02 financial years. In October 2003 the then Palm Island Council was dissolved and an administrator was appointed until the March 2004 election. A Townsville-based insolvency practitioner was appointed as administrator. This occurred due to a range of governance and financial management issues, including: insolvency, serious mismanagement, instability of Council membership between March 2000 and October 2003, conflict among elected Councillors, high turnover in the position of Council Clerk (CEO), poor records and decision making processes, unsustainable expenditure, a failure to deliver major infrastructure projects.cite book |last= [http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/PISC Palm Island Select Committee] |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Report - August 2005|url= http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/PISC/view/committees/documents/PISC/reports/report.pdf|month= August | year= 2005|publisher= [http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/tableOffice/documents/historical/tabledPapers/TABLEDPAPERS-0511st.pdf Tabled] in the Queensland Legislative Assembly 25 August 2005 |location= |isbn= |pages = 15-16|format=PDF]

At the conclusion of the administrator's term a handover report was presented to the newly elected Council, this report included; allocation of specific portfolios for Councillors and the establishment of committee structures to ensure functional decision making, appointment of a financial controller for 12 months and the engagement of a Human Resource Management consultant.

According to the Palm Island Select Committee, the local government elections of 1997, 2000, and 2004 demonstrated a lack of continuity in office-bearers, a relatively small number of voters combined with a large number of candidates and a trend in some families for a number of relatives to stand for election.

On 1 January 2005, Palm Island Council was renamed Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council, this reconstitution into a Shire Council formed part of the "Meeting Challenges, Making Choices"strategy developed in responseto the Cape York Justice Study undertaken by Justice Fitzgerald QC in November 2001. [cite book | last=McDougall | first=Scott | year=2005 | title=Palm Island: Future Directions - Resource Officer Report | place=Brisbane, Queensland | publisher=Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy | month=January | year=2006| url=http://www.datsip.qld.gov.au/resources/publications/documents/future-directions-palm-island-resource-officer-report.pdf|pages=page 27|format=PDF]

References

External links

* [http://www.lgworks.net.au/council/Palm_Island LGWORKS: Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council]