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First stage of TAFE works done THE first stage of redevelopment works at Chisholm’s Frankston TAFE campus have been completed. The completed first stage works include new health, community care, early childhood education, hair, beauty, and wellness facilities. The works also included the addition of new classrooms and redeveloped trades facilities, including a purpose-built design centre. State politicians visited the Frankston TAFE campus last week to tour the new facilities. Premier Daniel Andrews said “TAFE is a ticket to skills, jobs and a stronger Victoria, that’s why we saved TAFE, made it free and are ensuring they have the best facilities.” “Right across the state, TAFE-qualified Victorians are building our transport network, farming our fields and caring for our most vulnerable. We’ll always back them and back our TAFE sector,” he said. Mr Andrews said that 36,000 students have started free TAFE courses this year, with more than 6000 students enrolling at Chisholm Institute. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said “these new facilities will benefit thousands of people living in the Frankston region and they are designed and built to meet the demand for skilled workers in growing industries.” Nepean MP Chris Brayne said “this TAFE is attended by hundreds of young people who have grown up on the Mornington Peninsula. Redeveloping this TAFE to meet the future needs of these young people is crucial to ensuring we retain these skills on the peninsula for the long term.” The state government said they have allocated $46.9 million in taxpayer’s money to the project, and says it will put in a further $67.6 million to complete the next stage. The next stage of the project is set to replace existing buildings C and E on the campus with a new multi-level facility.
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Date: Saturday 2nd November 2019 Time: 8pm to 1am
New facilities: Premier Daniel Andrews faces a media scrum after a tour of new facilities at Chisholm’s Frankston campus. Picture: Supplied
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FRANKSTON councillors are set to discuss the merit of moving the Frankston Coast Guard into the troubled Yacht Club building. If a vote at council’s 14 October* meeting is successful, council will withdraw $8 million in ratepayer funding which had been allocated to help put the Coast Guard in a permanent home at Oliver’s Hill. The motion councillors are set to vote on reads that council will “commit $400,000 to the 2020/21 budget from the strategic reserve to undertake fit out and associated building works to the first floor of the Frankston Yacht Club facility to provide permanent accommodation for [the Coast Guard] at the Frankston Yacht Club facility subject to an appropriate occupancy agreement and approvals.” The vote also “notes council will continue to pursue a suitable tenant/s for the first floor and ground floor premises, alongside the FCG, once the building rectification works are completed” and “notes the outcome of the assessment of alternate options for the safe boat refuge, including viable options for a safe boat refuge which have been identified at both Olivers Hill and Kananook Creek.” A plan to move the coast guard to a facility at Oliver’s Hill had proved divisive, with debate inside council chambers often becoming heated (“Council comes to blows over Oliver’s Hill, The Times, 9/4/19). Council had pledged $8 million to that option and sought matching commitments from the state and federal governments, but failed in their lobbying attempts. The Yacht Club building has caused headaches for council, mainly sitting vacant since 2016. Negotiations to lease out a bottom floor section of the building hit troubled waters in August when council confirmed that the building was affected by combustible cladding. *Editor’s note: The vote occurs shortly after publication deadline. An update will be in next week’s edition of The Times. Brodie Cowburn
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