The city of Goulburn is open for business, and it was great to see the area busy over the June long weekend.
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A recent COVID-19 scare due to a traveller passing through has been handled positively by the community with increased testing and deep cleans of affected premises' occurring. No positive cases of community transmitted COVID-19 have been found in NSW in the past two weeks.
Anecdotally we have heard that visitation has dropped to our region and our service centres at South and North Goulburn since the alert around the COVID case that visited Goulburn.
We want to ensure that travellers know we are open for business and are COVID safe. Our community in large numbers have presented for testing, while affected businesses also shut to undergo deep cleans. It has been some time since NSW has had a case of community transmission, and in Goulburn we are lucky to have had no community transmitted cases since the start of the pandemic.
Rocky Hill War Memorial and Museum and the Goulburn Historic Waterworks are just two of the landmark locations in the region driving a significant increase in visitation.
Domestic tourism is on the increase due to COVID-19 and the restrictions on international travel, and this has come at the perfect time for the region, with recent investments in a number of tourist locations.
Visitation for the Goulburn Historic Waterworks increased from 8,484 visitors in 2019/20 (including a 10 week closure due to COVID) to 18,061 in the 2020/21 year to the beginning of May. At Rocky Hill War Memorial and Museum visitation has more than doubled from 20,147 visitors in 2017/18 prior to the museum opening, to 42,212 through until the start of May in this financial year.
I encourage locals to visit these brilliant assets as well! The current exhibition at the museum is titled 'Objects of National Significance: When war trophies came to Goulburn'. This opening exhibition in our new state of the art museum building showcases sixteen objects of National Significance from the substantial CEW Bean WW1 war trophy collection.
Sustainability Working Party
A reminder that expressions of interest for the Sustainability Working Party are open now, until 5pm, Thursday June 17.
The aim of the working party is to discuss climate change and biodiversity loss locally to develop strategies and options to address these issues at a local level. The aim of the working party is not to debate the science of climate change or biodiversity loss but rather to develop achievable, affordable and practical options that can be implemented in our community.
The working party will consist of 11 participants to include:
- Councillor Sam Rowland
- One senior student from each of the four local high schools
- One direct appointment from the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce
- Up to five community representatives selected by Council from the Expression of Interest process.
EOI's are asked to respond to the question below in 250 words or less: 'What is your interest in joining this Working Party?'
Expressions of interest may be sent by email to council@goulburn.nsw.gov.au or by mail to Goulburn Mulwaree Council, Locked Bag 22, Goulburn, NSW, 2580.
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