Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

219 AT A GLANCE WHO: Shire of Williams WHAT: Local Government WHERE: 9 Brooking Street, Williams, WA, Australia 6391 WEBSITE: williams.wa.gov.au nership. Geoff, who joined the team in December 2015, has had the pleasure of overseeing the final stages of multi- ple projects undertaken by the Coun- cil over the last few years. Heidi, who has been with the Council since 2002, has played a very active role in identi- fying high priority needs, sourcing and securing funding for the identified pro- jects, and fostering and supporting an economic development alliance with other local Councils. The 4WDL Well Aged Housing Project – Meeting the needs of an ageing population One of the largest projects managed by the Shire of Williams has been the 4WDL Well Aged Housing Project. The project identified that housing was a collective need across 7 local gov- ernments and this shared need could be developed into a collaborative pro- ject that would, at completion, see the construction of up to 50 dedicat- ed independent living units across the 7 Councils and 9 individual communi- ties. A project that would end up be- ing delivered over 8 years and would attract over $18m of WA state govern- ment investment through the Royalties for Regions funding program. The allo- cation and distribution of funding and units was determined based on evi- dence of need in the respective com- munities ensuring therefore that those communities with the greatest need had the greatest allocation of funding and units to meet the identified need. The 4WDL regional group is aptly