After repeated entreaties from Cr Toni Wright-Turner for the signage to be made easier for both visitors and locals to understand, new designs have finally been approved that feature simple graphics encapsulating the main points of what is permitted and what is not at each level.

Councillors were united in praising the simplicity and clarity of the new signs and unanimously endorsed them.

“I’m very pleased, it’s so much better,” Cr Steve Jenkins said. “It’s very easy to understand.”

“We’re trying something quite interesting in moving away from engineering-speak,” Cr Jennie Fenton said.

Cr Dominic King suggested that the beauty of having such simple signs would be that what was allowed would be obvious even to the shire’s younger residents, who may lend a hand in terms of enforcement.

“Kids will be right onto it, pulling up parents and neighbours,” he said.

The new signs, to be funded from the existing water budget, will replace the existing ones at the entrance to the townships of the shire, assuming that Roads and Maritime Services raises no objections.

There will be a sleeve for the appropriate level to be inserted as the severity of water restrictions waxes and wanes.

Cr Wright-Turner, who was elected deputy mayor at today’s meeting, was pleased that the communications makeover is finally going ahead.

“It’s good to see we’ve reached the point of making the change,” she said.