Community priorities ‘reflected’ in budget EXTRA spending on capital works and community services are features of the proposed Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s 2018-19 budget released last week. The document, which is on public exhibition until Thursday 26 April, reflects the priorities identified by members of the community, the mayor Cr Bryan Payne said. “It provides ongoing service improvements and infrastructure enhancements within the current financial environment”. The state government has again capped rate rises at 2.25 per cent. The mayor said the waste service charge, based on full cost recovery, was proposed to increase by 10 per cent – to $217 – driven by an increase in waste costs. The proposed capital works budget is $52 million. “Big ticket” items include $5 million for the
preliminary phases of the Rosebud Aquatic Centre; $4.9 million for Somerville Recreation and Community Centre; $18.6 million for buildings renewals and upgrades; $9 million for roads and traffic management; $7.4 million parks, open spaces and streetscapes; $4.3 million recreational leisure and community facilities (excluding Somerville Recreation and Community Centre). The mayor said projects in the proposed $2.3 million priority projects program include township planning, footpath network condition data and video survey, management of high risk trees, coastal vegetation enhancement, bay trails and strategic network paths, coastal management plans for Mt Eliza and Portsea and Southern Peninsula traffic congestion management.
Expert to inspect estuary works PHIL Moors, the former head of the Royal Botanic Gardens, will visit Balcombe Estuary this month to inspect restoration works financed by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. The trust, chaired by Dr Moors, last year granted $30,000 to Balcombe Estuary Reserves Group Mt Martha for habitat restoration works on the north bank of the Balcombe Estuary Reserves. This inspired other donors to give $70,000 which will be used for follow-up on this and other projects in the reserves. The trust grant was spent largely on weed
control in Maude Street, Mt Martha, followed by replanting with indigenous trees and shrubs to increase the diversity of the regenerating bushland. Some of the other money will be used to pay for a flora and fauna survey of estuary reserves to help assess progress since the surveys undertaken 15 years ago. Dr Moors and his wife Debra will be shown the result of the works and those in an adjoining control burn site by BERG MM’s president Dr Graham Hubbard and field officer Liz Barraclough.
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Mornington News 3 April 2018
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