NEWS DESK Shire’s move to Melbourne Continued from Page 1 “In addition to our ratepayers, many of the larger planning consulting firms and architects are based in and close to the CBD, which will make us more accessible to meet and discuss planning matters.” Mr Bergin said the office would have six to eight desks, allowing three to four staff to be there “on a rotating basis”. Staff using the city office would also be required a set number of days a week at the Mornington office. “An attendance chart will be developed to ensure that both staff and leaders are rotated through the office in a functional method.” CEO Carl Cowie, in a news release, said the Melbourne office would “improve efficiency and customer service for the shire’s planning services department [and] … improve productivity and flexibility for staff while improving our overall planning services”. “The satellite office will allow our planning services team to use their time more effectively, spending more time working for our community, and less time travelling between the peninsula and the CBD,” Mr Cowie said. “It will also improve our customer service by providing better accessibility to a quarter of our home owners who live and work in and around Melbourne. “We are here for the community – we want to help our residents with their planning needs as efficiently and effectively as possible. This office will allow our ratepayers to visit us in the CBD to chat and get the advice they need quicker.” Mr Cowie told The News on 31 August 2017 that “there is nothing to report regarding a shire office in central Melbourne” (“Shire planning to lease city office” The News 19/9/17). But one day later (1 September), in his regular Friday email to shire staff Weekly Message, Mr Cowie described sitting in an Uber “waiting to get on the Monash [Freeway]” on his way to a meeting in the Melbourne CBD with “the exec team”. Exactly one week before (25 August) Mr Cowie’s email to staff said “we have received some pricing for what could be a good first site for a shire planning presence in the CBD”. “I will be inviting several key officers for a look at the office space on Friday 1 September.”
DECKING
THE wind started blowing at 12.20pm, a belligerent blast out of the west, with a hint of rain and heavy, grey clouds rolling overhead. A eucalyptus branch crashed into the clearing and canvas marquees housing exhibits for BERG Mt Martha’s family day at the old campsite in Mirang Avenue started flapping. When exhibits started flying off the tables it was time to start packing up. Two hours earlier, in bright sunshine, more than 200 adult and children visitors chatted to BERG MM members wearing white t-shirts with the distinctive green, blue and grey
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cards of local birds and animals and telling their stories to rapt children. Come the wind and he moved undercover with his cards and the children followed him. Chief organiser Barbara Thraves summed up: “Despite the early end to the event due to the weather, everything worked well with a great range of activities. “Those who came had an enjoyable time, which can only be good for community awareness about our wonderful estuary and reserves.” Barry Morris
logos. The youngsters were interested in face painting, model landscaping, creating bush critters with hay and wool and learning about animals in the wild while parents and grandparents sipped coffee and tucked into a sausage sandwich. “The wind has done wonders for our business,” the man behind the barbecue said. Former tram conductor Roberto D’Andrea, of the ecological entertainers The Connies, didn’t miss a beat. Earlier he stood in the clearing, handing out
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Nature takes a (windy) course at family day
Sand land: Glen Mapp and his brother Ike “landscaping” at BERG Mt Martha’s family day, while Ben White and his brother Sam learn about making nature’s animals. Pictures: Richard Kirsner
3 April 2018
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