Join us for a dynamic Networking Breakfast proudly sponsored by Green By Nature at the beautiful Mount Lawley Golf Club on Wednesday, March 11, from 8am – 10:30am as we reconnect with colleagues and kick off the year with an engaging and thought-provoking discussion on the theme “Planning for Growth.”
This interactive morning will feature insights from an experienced panel of industry leaders, exploring strategies, challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth in the year ahead. Following the panel discussion, attendees will be invited to share their perspectives in facilitated table conversations. Your contributions will play an important role in shaping our future presentations and seminars, ensuring our program continues to deliver relevant and valuable content.
We are pleased to announce:
Speakers:
Cathy Kiss AM -Service Manager – Recreation Services at the City of Cockburn
Cathy is a Recreation Planner with extensive experience in planning and management of sport and recreation environments. Currently the Service Manager – Recreation at the City of Cockburn, she has worked in the Local Government recreation, community sport and parks sector for over 35 years. She is interested in the role Local Government can play to support people of all ages to participate in healthy and active lifestyles.
Before her recent move to WA, Cathy worked at the City of Melbourne for over 20 years. She was the Planning and Capital Works Manager for the Recreation and Waterways branch, and prior to that a Senior Open Space Planner. Working in a Capital City through a period of extraordinary growth, Cathy brings strong insight into some of the challenges in planning for growth.
Cathy has a strong commitment to the Parks and Leisure industry and continues to be an active member of PLA Advisory, a strategic ‘think tank’ for the PLA national board. This group identifies and provides advice on national industry issues. She was a Councillor on the Vic/Tas Board for over 10 years and is excited to now join the PLA WA Board. Cathy was awarded the Frank Stewart Distinguished Service Award in 2014.
In 2021, Cathy was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the parks and recreation industry, and children’s well-being.
Jacqui Freeman – Manager City Reserves – Parks and Natural Areas at the City of Albany
Jacqui will be sharing challenges in management of the increasing visitation to destination areas from
illegal camping and increased infrastructure use to environmental degradation, Increased use of infrastructure, Waste Management.
Paul Handcock
Paul Handcock has had the usual varied career – IT Guy, Project Manager, and Data Guy before joining the City of Melville as the Infrastructure Asset Officer, Asset Management Coordinator and now Senior Asset Officer. His most unusual task involved working out how low flying fighter aircraft were crashing his computers.
His work interests include Asset Management (AM) systems, Infrastructure Strategies and data migrations. He has performed the usual stuff – collected data, manipulated data, reported on data and connected data to other systems. He has managed the growth of assets in the system from 100 to over 125,000, the integration of AM into the Operations Capital Works process, the connection of AM plans to the Community Plan and the LTFP, overseen the use field tablets for data collection and the daily use of AM in the organisation.
The work on Parks Asset Management has been the most satisfying work recently.
We look forward to welcoming you for a morning of connection, conversation and collaboration as we plan for a successful year ahead.
