Only one person asked questions at the August 2020 Council Meeting. Penny Hamlet asked about the closure of the Franklin River Camping area.
Two employment opportunities are presented at South Gippsland Shire Council. Both are described as newly created positions but a look at the organisational chart suggests that the directors roles have merely been renamed with the same department structure as earlier times.
All Council’s staff at Director/CEO level and the three Administrators all reside outside the Shire yet both job descriptions justifiably promote the positives of living the country lifestyle within easy reach of the city.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Under the new Local Government Act, Council is required to develop a Community Vision plan. At present the Council has not acted upon this so it is holding up progress on other strategies such as the Coastal Strategy. This letter is a starting point for community discussion.
Mr Hayes, independent member of Parliament, in the upper house asked the now disgraced Ex-Minister for Local Government Adem Somyurek on March 17th, 2020 the following question which was tabled in Parliament. In relation to the dismissal of the South Gippsland Shire Council:
Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism”, wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionise the economic structure from within, “incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”.
The awards recognise people in South Gippsland who dedicate their time, skills and energy for the benefit of their local community. There will only be two categories in the 2021 awards – Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year.
When reading the article in the on-line newspaper. South Gippsland Voices, titled “Limited time to view Council agenda before Council meeting” (7 Aug 2020), I soon realized that what Council is quoted as saying didn’t add up.
The trend down is continuing and daily numbers are coming down. Lets keep safe, practice social distancing and proper hygiene control and this should continue to get better.
Nicholls Road Mardan has been closed, adjacent to Mayalls Road, to all through traffic due to a culvert failure resulting in significant scouring under the road pavement.
The course is about building confidence for both candidates and communities. You must complete the course to nominate for council.
On advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer, Professor Brett Sutton, local government elections will go ahead as scheduled for Saturday, 24 October 2020. The Minister for Local Government sought advice from the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office and Chief Health Officer as to how best to proceed while Victoria is in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Council would like to commend the Mirboo North & District Community Foundation on its plans to build a modern and spacious medical clinic and allied health facility in Mirboo North. The new facility will ensure that the residents of Mirboo North and surrounds can have continued access to GP bulk billing and health services for decades to come.
Daily data suggests we have turned the corner in Victoria. The orange bars show the daily new active cases and the grey line shows the 7 day average. The updated graph shows a continued decline in the 7 day average. Good but don’t let your guard down.
Left scale shows the daily active numbers and right scale shows the 7 day average.
chart continues to trend downwards. An estimate for when the daily numbers reduce to low daily cases would be early to mid September.
Victorian businesses doing it tough will receive more help in dealing with the stress and emotional impacts of the coronavirus pandemic through a new Victorian Government wellbeing initiative.
Daily data suggests we have turned the corner in Victoria. The orange bars show the daily new active cases and the grey line shows the 7 day average. The updated graph shows a continued decline in the 7 day average. Good but don’t let your guard down.
Left scale shows the daily active numbers and right scale shows the 7 day average.
If the new daily active cases in the next 7 days stay around the current level the 7 day average chart will continue to get lower and indicate the stage 4 changes brought in over a week ago are working in the community to reduce transmission.
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The South Gippsland Shire Council have a well-practised art of starting things that make it look like they are doing something except they seem to never achieve any growth for us.
Twenty-Four days after Melbourne was put back into lockdown, the recent highest daily tally of 783 new cases in Victoria makes for dispiriting reading. Why have the numbers stubbornly refused to go down, despite Melburnians being confined to their homes for all but non-essential trips?
Horses, like our dogs and cats, are familiar to many of us, be they racehorses, police horses, or much-loved pony club mounts. So it might surprise you that horses, in Australia, are more deadly than snakes , and indeed all venomous animals combined.
Most of today’s cases are in metro areas. But we have seen a significant jump in regional communities. It’s vital we stop this virus further seeping into regional Victoria. Face coverings mandatory from Midnight Sunday-All Victoria
Poor Checks & Balances for Wind Farm Development
It is the responsibility of government departments to present advice to ministers that is balanced. Input must be sought from all stakeholders. Individual proposals should be analysed based on their merits. An industrial scale wind farm in a bushfire prone forest surrounded by townships and lifestyle properties is a far cry from one in a sparsely populated, broad acre farming region. Yet the State Government sees little distinction.
A three-month trial of state-of-the-art safety cameras that will capture distracted drivers on Victoria’s roads will start next week throughout the state.
Council passed the motion to submit the Council Submission on the Sera Sand Project at Nyora.