Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart has embarked on a campaign to connect personally with local businesses.
Cr Stewart said after the increasing pressures and hardships local businesses have faced over the past couple of years and recently, it was important to support them.
“Considering the challenges they have faced – a global pandemic and the ongoing implications from this – and now the recent flood event, our local businesses need our support now more than ever,“ she said.
“Noosa Council has worked tirelessly to support local businesses and the aim of this campaign is to highlight how these local businesses benefit our community and how the community, in turn, can support them.
“Our small businesses are very much the lifeblood of this shire and we have over 7000 of them.”
Noosa Chamber of Commerce president Ralph Rogers commended Cr Stewart for this positive initiative.
“This is a great initiative of Cr Stewart’s,“ he said.
“The Noosa economy has been underperforming and the only way we will change that is by politicians, like Cr Stewart, getting out and about and really engaging with the business community so we can identify and arrest this decline, understand the challenges that face our businesses, and work towards delivering the sort of growth the rest of Queensland is enjoying.
“This campaign demonstrates that Cr Stewart is someone who truly cares about people and our businesses.“
Cr Stewart kicked off the campaign meeting with local business Eclectic Style in Noosaville earlier this week.
