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By Jo Winterbottom A STOCKTAKE of natural areas is nearing completion in the City of Kingston. Ecologists and city rangers are completing ecological surveys of the foreshore between Aspendale and Carrum in the fourth and final instalment of a report on nature reserves in the municipality. It is the culmination of three years’ work for Kingston foreshore coordinator Jared Megens and consultant ecologist Jeff Yugovic. The study takes in Kingston’s 13 kilometres of Port Phillip foreshore, the green wedge area, wetlands, reserves and open spaces. Mr Megens said a priority had been to identify remnant indigenous vegetation and sites of significant habitat value. The surveys provide a map of different plant communities and an assessment of the condition and conservation significance of native vegetation. Mr Yugovic’s reports and recommendations will be used to guide the council in managing its natural resources and improving biodiversity of natural areas.
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Kingston foreshore coordinator Jared Megens and ecologist Jeff Yugovic surveying on the foreshore at Aspendale. Picture: Yanni
New blood for council By Jo Winterbottom FOUR of the nine councillors elected to Kingston Council are new to local government, including David Eden, who at 18 is the youngest councillor in Victoria. A large field of 52 candidates vying for nine seats under the proportional representation system has delivered some new faces at Kingston, but it could remain a fractious assembly,
with energetic foes Paul Peulich and Rosemary West being re-elected in North and Central wards, respectively. The 2012 mayor, John Ronke, was re-elected to begin his 18th year on council; he is joined in South Ward by Cr Eden, a VCE student from Chelsea, and Tamsin Bearsley, a 37-year-old primary school teacher and mother who resigned her part-time position as an electorate officer for Carrum MP Donna Bauer to run for council.
Cr Eden received 16.2 per cent of the primary vote, in front of Cr Bearsley on 11.9 per cent and Cr Ronke, 11 per cent. In Central Ward, where 28 candidates vied for the three seats, Ron Brownlees and Rosemary West were re-elected. Former mayor Arthur Athanasopoulos, who did not nominate, was replaced by retail consultant Geoff Gledhill, who heads up the Liberal Party’s
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fundraising arm, Business First. Cr Brownlees won the primary vote, with 13.9 per cent of first votes, followed by Cr West on 11.4 per cent and Cr Gledhill on 6.6 per cent. Cr Steve Staikos, also a former mayor, romped home in North Ward and was the only candidate elected on primary votes alone. He picked up 28.4 per cent of first votes, with Tamara Barth receiving 16.9 per cent and Cr Paul Peulich, standing for his second
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term, 13.9 per cent. The election of Cr Barth, who works in student recruitment at Monash University, doubles the number of women on Kingston Council, which nevertheless remains low at just two of the nine. With the exception of Central Ward, where Amelia Honan polled third and above Geoff Gledhill in primary votes, the successful candidates after the distribution of preferences were those who received the most primary votes.
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