Welcome to the City of Lithgow, the latest Council to join the ever expanding list of Council’s that haves selected Doc Assembler as their solution for delivering agenda and minutes software.

Council recently evaluated a number of options but opted to go with Doc Assembler due to its flexibility, ease of use and ability to be used anywhere and anytime.  Implementation is scheduled to take place in August and we look forward to working with Lithgow Council to roll out our solution and to see Council get the benefits of our modern, flexible solution.

Northern Grampians Shire Council, located in Stawell, Victoria, like many rural councils have had to balance the needs of its local community with ensuring the fair and equitable distribution of the rate burden over its entire rate base.  Relying on the rate modelling solution provided by Harbour Software, EasyREV, Council recently had to address some significant impacts arising from a revaluation combined with the rate pegging requirements in place in Victoria.

As recently reported in the Wimmera Mail Times ‘the council, confronted with a scenario where some farm rates in the shire were due to rise by between 35 and 40 percent, decided to make a 2.25 percent rate increase across residential, farming and recreation sectors.  The move changed a farm-rate differential from 65 to 52 percent.’

Michael Bailey, Council’s CEO stated “using computer software modeling (EasyREV), the total income the council receives through rate collection will not be diminished by the changes we’ve made…. We’re very comfortable with the information we can provide to the council, knowing that the decisions made are based on accurate and detailed information.  With the system we have we can show the deeper impacts of decisions better than many other councils”.

“The Council won a Local Government Professionals award in February, beating many metro councils, because of our software transformation based around innovation management involving our IT systems”.

Harbour Software is extremely pleased to be associated with Northern Grampians Shire and in working collaboratively with them to assist achieve their drive for continuous improvement by developing innovative and agile software solutions that provides significant and tangible benefits to their community.

A massive milestone achieved by the Project Team at Blacktown City Council last Friday (08/06/18) with not just one but 5 committee meeting agenda’s been published from Doc Assembler for the first time.

The team at Blacktown put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that the end result was just right which resulted in a smooth process with the agenda documents been published not only to Docs On Tap but to Council’s website and eDRMS as well.  The integration provided by Harbour Software enabled Council to seamlessly push their documents up to their new website which was recently commissioned.  

You can view the end result of all the work put in by the Project Team  by clicking here.

Its a fantastic result and congratulations to all the team at Blacktown.

Kempsey Shire Council is the latest Council to move to the cloud with the selection of Doc Assembler as their preferred solution for their agenda and minutes processing functions.

Located in the picturesque Macleay Valley Coast area Kempsey is strategically located mid way between Brisbane and Sydney, nestled between  Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour.  Having gone through a competitive evaluation process, Doc Assembler has been evaluated as the most fit for purpose and strategically aligned to the Council’s desire to move more towards a cloud based environment.

Congratulations to Kempsey on their decision and we look forward to welcoming them to the growing number of Councils who have embraced the many features and benefits offered to them by our solution.

For more information on Kempsey Shire Council visit www.kempsey.nsw.gov.au

 

As a new site implements Doc Assembler, its not uncommon for our clients to coincide this with the opportunity to refresh the presentation of their existing Agenda formatting.  Doc Assembler provides the opportunity due to its flexibility and functionality to facilitate this as shown by the collage of front pages shown below:

Whilst the layouts above are not to scale, they provide a pretty good overview of the fantastic format and content that our clients put together using Doc Assembler.