Cr James O’Shea
Cr Mike Williams
PORTFOLIO LEADER – INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
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Cr James O'Shea is born and bred in Toowoomba. His
father Pat was also a Toowoomba local, while his mother
Cecile is from the Philippines and moved to the Garden
City in 1981. James has two younger sisters Kate and
Karen who also live and work in Toowoomba. James is
married to a Toowoomba girl Erin Kehoe-O'Shea.
Cr O’Shea spent 13 years working at WIN Television
Toowoomba, five of those as Chief of Staff. James
also has a media background working on radio and in
newspapers and still presents a weekly radio program on
community radio 102.7FM.
Working with his wife Erin, Cr O’Shea also owns and
operates his own small business KOMM, which is a media
and marketing consultancy company.
Cr O’Shea is an executive board member of Sports
Darling Downs and the Vice President of The Great White
Campaign to bring a neurosurgeon to Toowoomba.
This is Cr O’Shea’s first term as Councillor at the
Toowoomba Regional Council.
“The Toowoomba Region is in the spotlight to be an
intermodal transport hub. My term at Council will
be to work with the community to improve trafficflow efficiencies, advocate for public transport
and encourage positive changes in car parking
behaviours across the region."
- Cr James O’Shea
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CHAPTER 2 Our Council
CHAIR - FINANCE AND BUSINESS STRATEGY
COMMITTEE
Cr Mike Williams is serving his third term on Toowoomba
Regional Council and is Chair of the Finance and Business
Strategy Committee. He also Chair of the Service
Improvement and Information Technology governance
group and is a member of the Audit committee. To support
his role on council Mike has completed the Australian
Company Directors course, has a Bachelor of Business
and has recently completed his Master of Business in
Applied Finance at USQ. Over the 8 years as chair of
finance, Mike is proud to have guided TRC to a financially
sound position as assessed by QLD Treasury.
Prior to amalgamation Mike severed 8 years on the
Cambooya Shire Council with the last 4 as Deputy Mayor.
Mike and his wife Jo-Anne have operated the successful
Mike Williams Country Clothing business in Russell st for
28 years. They live at Hodgson Vale where they breed
horses and Angus cattle. Mike has played Polocrosse
for 44 years and enjoys the game playing with children,
Andrew, Melinda and Hayden when time permits. Jo
competes in One Day Eventing with her home bred
Warmblood team of horses.
"Building a culture of customer service across all
departments of Council and improving our business
systems to facilitate this happening is an important
goal of mine. We continue to improve the efficiency
in delivering infrastructure and services by
upgrading technology and business processes.”
- Cr Mike Williams
TOOWOOMBA REGIONAL COUNCIL Annual Report 2015 - 2016