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Living on the edge THREE-year-old Jagger Fangmeier has spent much of his life in and out of the Rosebud Hospital’s emergency department for treatment of severe infections that his body has been unable to fight on its own due to a genetic condition affecting his kidneys and liver. Knowing that her son will need a transplant in the near future, his mother Amelia is doing all she can to help raise the profile of organ donation. Full story Page 3. Picture: Yanni
Pool site down 60%: report By David Harrison MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire could take a heavy loss if it sells Rosebud land it said was bought as an alternative site for the contentious Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre, according to a confidential report to council. The loss could be up to $4.2 million – 59.5 per cent – of the land’s purchase price of $8.1 million, the report estimates, if the land was sold as-is. The loss would drop to $2.32 million – 24.55 per cent – were the land to be expanded by buying $1.35 million more land and favourably rezoning the parcel. As reported by The News (‘Desper-
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ate bid lifts land price’, 29/4/14) the shire paid well over an expert valuation of the land when it bought in haste before the 2012 council election. The report, originally confidential but now made public, was commissioned from SGS Economics & Planning in response to a council resolution seeking options for “the commercial use or other development or disposal of the properties owned by council in and about Wannaeue Place, Rosebud”. SGS defined five options, including disposing immediately of the Wannaeue Place land “as is” (option 2) and selling the land “with a commercial
optimisation strategy” that would have involved the additional land purchase (option 3). More options were added later, including building the SPA at Wannaeue Place “in conjunction with privately funded co-located housing and commercial development, on the basis that the proceeds from this co-located development would help offset the cost of the SPA”. Significantly, SGS states that the report was undertaken using the advice of the shire’s aquatic centre specialists, SGL, “on the basis that the SPA would achieve roughly the same visitation
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quent options”. It is highly unlikely that the project – which awaits a final site decision from Environment Minister Ryan Smith – will start before the November state election and possibly not until mid2015, or even later. A Labor win in the November poll would almost certainly end supporters’ hopes of a foreshore pool complex. Labor consistently refused to approve the foreshore site when last in government on the grounds that it was not coastal-dependent and thus failed to meet a prime requirement for buildings proposed for the foreshore.
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(and therefore generate the same revenues as well as health and recreation benefits) regardless of whether it is located on the foreshore site or the Wannaeue Place land the SPA”. Supporters of the foreshore location have consistently argued that the SPA would attract more customers if located on the foreshore. The shire’s own expert pool consultant does not support this view. The report also states that construction of the SPA “is projected over a two-year horizon commencing in 2014. SPA operating costs are included in expenditure in this and all subse-
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