Indigenous influence on new building AN Indigenous artwork will be the centrepiece of the redeveloped Mentone Life Saving Club building. Artists Aunty Kim Wandin and Amanda Wright have been tasked with creating the artwork. Curator Christine Joy and public art specialist James Voller will also collaborate on the piece. Aunty Kim Wandin is a Wurundjeri Woirurrung woman who makes baskets and eel traps. Her work has been publicly exhibited and acquired by private and state collections. Palawa artist Amanda Wright has been involved in arts projects in the Yarra Ranges, and has worked on many Indigenous murals at schools. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos said that the artwork, which will feature a rakali, would be a
“stand-out piece and a focal point of attraction along Kingston’s Bay Trail.” “It’s extremely exciting that we are able to see this coming to fruition as part of such an important and worthwhile project,” he said. The Mentone Life Saving Club redevelopment is funded by Kingston Council, state and federal governments, and the club itself. The project is due for completion sometime this year.
ARTISTS Aunty Kim Wandin and Amanda Wright. The rakali (sketches inset) will feature in their artwork at Mentone Life Saving Club. Pictures: Supplied
To advertise in the Big projects and rate Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News rise in council budget call Anton on 0411 119 379 or email Continued from page 1 Kingston Council projects a healthy $15.1 million surplus, with no debt outstanding. The average general rate and municipal charge will rise by 1.75 per cent, the maximum increase allowed without exceeding the rate cap. The amount collected through general rates is expected to increase by around 2.61 per cent. Council has budgeted for an $80.4 million capital works program. Major funding injections include $14.6 million for the purchase of a site near Jack Grut Reserve for a pool to be built on, $6.6 million for a new pavilion and upgrades at GR Bricker Reserve, $6.1 million for pavilion upgrades at Souter Reserve, and $3.3 million for a new pavilion at Regent’s Park. $2 million has been budgeted to “secure community access to new community oval at the Hawthorn Football Club Kennedy Centre in Dingley Village”. Millions have been committed for works at Mentone, Aspendale, and Carrum life saving clubs. $1.85m will be spent at North Cheltenham Early Years Centre, and $1.8 million will be spent on the Peter Scullin Reserve playspace. A message from council CEO Peter Bean in the budget papers read “the budget has been prepared in strong partnership between your elected councillors, council staff and the Kingston community. I’d like to thank the many community members who helped shape the budget by taking part in our opportunities for community input which included our community panel and budget consultation.” “Long gone are the days when local councils focused solely on roads, rates and rubbish. Today the City of Kingston oversees a $80.4 million capital budget and a $242.4 million annual operating expenditure budget. We deliver over 100 services that vary from childcare to swimming pools, environmental management to immunisation, town planning to public festivals, and largescale drains to emergency management,” he said.
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Resident road rage over reduced speed limit Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au THE reduced speed limit on the Nepean Highway in Frankston has drawn fury from motorists. Multiple residents have contacted The News after receiving fines for speeding through the intersection of Nepean Highway and Davey Street in Frankston. They complained that the new 40kmph speed limit is poorly signed. The speed limit on the Nepean Highway between Fletcher Road and Plowman Place was reduced to 40kmph in October 2021. Some of the new speed limit signs were replaced just one month later to make them more visible. A speed camera on Davey Street has been enforcing the new limit since April of this year. One of the key reasons for changing the speed limit was to make outdoor dining safer. A VicRoads document released in June last year read “in the five years leading up to 30 June 2019, there were 30 reported crashes along this shopping strip, with 15 crashes resulting in serious injuries and one crash tragically resulting in a fatality. By installing new safety features on Nepean Highway in Frankston, we can improve pedestrian safety, prevent serious crashes from happening or reduce the severity of crashes when they’re unavoidable.” The project document also read that six electronic signs warning motorists of the speed limit would be installed. The Department of Transport has installed those signs, but they have not yet been turned on. They are expected to be operational in the next few weeks. Ian Robins, a retired engineer who
uses the road, says that an investigation must be commissioned to look into the installation of the speed limit signs. “Many submissions have been lodged with the Road Safety Camera Commissioner, but the investigation being called for is not about camera operations. It is estimated at least 18,000 infringements were recorded at the Davey Street cameras in May, alone,” Robins said. “There are clear indicators a low level of awareness of the change to 40 kmph is the key issue because the signage is not fit for purpose on a highly trafficked divided arterial road at the edge of a commercial zone. If 40 kmph limits are introduced on other divided arterial roads with the same minimum level of signage, a similar outcome will result.” Frankston Council CEO Phil Cantillon said that he is aware that motorists are having issues with the new speed limit. “Council has been working cooperatively with the Department of Transport to highlight its concerns and advocate for temporary electronic message boards to be installed pending the permanent signage being switched on, as well as writing to the Office of the Road Safety Camera Commission for its further consideration of the matter,” he said. “In this particular situation, the Nepean Highway is a state controlled DOT road and the introduction of the 40km zone is part of a state-wide DOT initiative to improve the safety of shopping strips. Frankston City Council welcomes the lowered speed zone introduced on this section of Nepean Highway in late 2021 recognising how busy it is with cars and pedestrians associated with the retail and restaurant activity, and for those walking to the waterfront and for commuters.”
AN image from the speed camera monitoring Davey Street. Picture: Supplied Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News
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