NEWS DESK Budget comment KINGSTON Council has released its 2016-17 draft budget aimed at enabling council to continue providing services, maintain infrastructure and deliver projects to strengthen the community. Mayor Cr David Eden said the proposed draft budget would continue to build Kingston as a strong, connected community. “We’re investing $58 million to ensure our community has access to wellmaintained quality infrastructure, that our local sports clubs are supported and that our children have access to quality early years learning,” Cr Eden said. Cr Eden said Kingston Council, due to “its strong history of sound financial management”, is well-prepared to meet the Victorian Government’s rate capping legislation that limits average annual rate rises to 2 per cent. “While some councils have requested an exemption to rate capping Kingston will not and has undertaken careful planning to ensure our financial future,” Cr Eden said. “We are also continuing to offer pensioners a rates rebate of $100, which is in addition to the Victorian government rebate.” The draft budget’s $58.4 million capital works program features a wide range of projects including: n Redevelopment of Mordialloc’s Ben Kavanagh Reserve with $3 million allocated this year to continue work on a new double-storey pavilion and upgrades around the park n G.R. Bricker athletics track upgrade, $1.3 million n Edithvale Life Saving Club redevelopment, $1.6 million n Cliff Sambell pavilion development at the Gerry Green Reserve, $1.4 million n Dales Park Masterplan implementation, $1.6 million
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n $2 million to remediate and landscape former landfill sites in Kingston’s Green Wedge n road and footpath repairs, $6.7 million n drainage works, $3.3 million streetlight replacements, $2.9 million n $1.6 million has been allocated to continuing the Bay Trail shared walking/bike path from Mentone to Mordialloc n $1 million book stock purchases for Kingston libraries. The draft budget can also be viewed at Council’s Customer Service Centres, at Kingston libraries and at kingston. vic.gov.au online. Written submissions on the draft budget can be submitted by 5pm, Monday 29 May at yourkingstonyoursay.com.au or by mail to Manager Finance & Corporate Performance, Kingston City Council, PO Box 1000, Mentone, 3194. A special council meeting will be held on Monday 5 June at 7pm to consider written submissions and residents are invited to speak to their submissions at this meeting. The draft budget will be considered for formal adoption at a special council meeting on Tuesday 13 June.
Forum change A COMMUNITY forum hosted by the Aspendale Gardens-Edithvale Community Bank branch of the Bendigo Bank will now be held on Tuesday 11 July instead of 6 June. Kingston residents are invited to meet at the Bert Thomas Pavilion (Chelsea FC club rooms), 88-120 Edithvale Rd, Edithvale on 11 July, 7pm to discuss future community projects that could be undertaken with the help of money generated by the community bank. Email susan.tresidder@bendigoadelaide.com.au or call 9588 0610.
Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News 24 May 2017
Scene it: Sharon Wedel, left, Jackie Goedhart and Emily Dunstan with paintings of Stony Point landscapes on exhibition at Frankston Arts Centre. Picture: Gary Sissons
Landscape views boxed in PUTTING vista views in the picture is the focus of an art exhibition at Frankston Art Centre’s Cube 37 Gallery featuring the work of Chisholm TAFE students. The Little Landscapes 9x5 Exhibition displays student artists’ paintings of Stony Point vistas on small boards inspired by the Heidelberg School of Melbourne painters who displayed works on cigar boxes first produced in 1889.
Emily Dunstan, 35, is studying for a diploma of visual arts at Chisholm TAFE in Frankston. She is “following a passion” and hopes to work as a curator in an arts gallery after graduation. “We visited an area where the fishermen are in Stony Point that is beautiful,” she said. “It wasn’t perfectly picturesque but the fishermen were gutting the fish and throwing gummy sharks out on to
the sand and it added a grotesque edge to it. Some people painted that.” Students works were painted in the “en plein air” tradition of reflecting changing light and tides. n The Little Landscapes 9x5 Exhibition is on display at Frankston Arts Centre, Cube 37 Gallery, 37 Davey St, Frankston until 3 June, Tues-Fri 9am5pm, Saturdays 9am-2pm, entry free. See thefac.com.au or call 9784 1896 for more details. Neil Walker