PHOTO: Walgett Shire Council GM Megan Dixon with Member for Barwon, Roy Butler.
After 12 months in the lead role at Walgett Shire Council, Megan Dixon is realistic in her achievements and challenges.
The former head of RDA Orana where she had led comfortably for seven years, arrived in the chair as general manager of Walgett Shire in a turbulent time.
The outgoing GM had just been dismissed, and controversially, the Council had decided to decommission the Walgett pool the week before she started. In her first six months there was a tragic death in the workplace, bushfires and even a flood in Lightning Ridge. “It was an intense time within Council and externally we had all of these events that were pushing our resources and our abilities.”…