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Tuesday 23 May 2017
5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Hard hats, spades: Zoe Glaum and Ruby Rees from Seawinds Early Learning Centre helped out at the turning-the-sod ceremony. Picture: Gary Sissons
Start for Rosebud men’s shed A DREAM held by many local Rosebud residents to have a community men’s shed is closer to becoming a reality with the turning of the first sod ceremony, Tuesday 9 May. Earthworks were due to start last week and it is expected that the 24 metres by 12 metres shed shell will soon follow, Seawinds Community Hub CEO Heather Barton said. The men’s shed project started two years ago with a grant from the state government. A federal government grant came last year to help with the internal fit out, and Mornington Peninsula Shire also contributed. Fundraising by volunteers included the annual Seawinds charity golf day and sausage sizzles. The shed, an annexe to Seawinds Community Hub, will be built in Allambi Av, Capel Sound. The children will document the shed’s progress through photography, drawings and discussions as a real-life addition to their education.
Light borrowing in the black by 2032 Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is being urged to borrow almost $5 million over the next 15 years for a bulk street lighting LED upgrade. The new energy-saving lights would pay for themselves over the long-term with annual cost savings expected to be $616,576. The lights would also be a “significant step forward” in achieving the shire’s carbon neutral policy adopted
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in February last year, energy and carbon management officer Chris Yorke said . Councillors will consider the proposal at tonight’s (Tuesday 23 May) meeting. If adopted, works could begin as soon as October on what is described as “the single largest greenhouse gas emission mitigation project the shire can undertake”. Annual cost savings are expected to be $616,576. Mr Yorke forecast the LEDs would
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reduce the shire’s carbon footprint by 10 per cent. A study of the street lighting upgrade was commissioned in April last year. The contract was awarded to Ironbark Sustainability, which has reportedly worked with 70 of the state’s 79 municipal councils on energy efficient street lighting. Most street lighting on the Mornington Peninsula is owned by electricity distributor United Energy. The shire is responsible for paying for and supplying electricity and subsidising the
operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the lights. Of the shire’s 16,684 street lights, 10,729 are mercury vapour lights needing an upgrade. The lights would be bought and installed by the shire before being vested to United Energy. The council will be up for replacement costs over a 12 month warranty period. United Energy will then take over their ongoing operation, maintenance, repair and replacements over a 20 year operating life. The shire’s finance team has recom-
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