Two more suburbs to join the lockdown in Melbourne at midnight tonight (Saturday July 4th, 2020).
In the suburb of Flemington and North Melbourne a total of 9 high rise buildings will be completely locked down. After midnight tonight, no residents of those 9 high rise residential buildings will be allowed to leave the buildings for at least 5 days and up to 14 days.
Council giving Financial Aid to Shops and Community Groups.
Expected to be passed at Council Meeting today. Any small business (with a Shopfront) or community group should explore these three packages. Limited numbers available. Eligibility Criteria and How to Apply.
In line with advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer, the Victorian Government has announced that a number of postcodes will return to Stage 3 Stay at Home restrictions from 11.59pm on Wednesday 1 July 2020.
This decision was made in response to increasing evidence of significant community transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) in these postcodes:
The Suburbs
3012 (Brooklyn, Kingsville, Maidstone, Tottenham, West Footscray)
3021 (Albanvale, Kealba, Kings Park, St Albans)
3032 (Ascot Vale, Highpoint City, Maribyrnong, Travancore)
3038 (Keilor Downs, Keilor Lodge, Taylors Lakes, Watergardens)
3042 (Airport West, Keilor Park, Niddrie, Niddrie North)
3046 (Glenroy, Hadfield, Oak Park)
3047 (Broadmeadows, Dallas, Jacana)
3055 (Brunswick South, Brunswick West, Moonee Vale, Moreland West)
3060 (Fawkner)
3064 (Craigieburn, Donnybrook, Mickelham, Roxburgh Park, Kalkallo)
If you live in these locations, there will again only be four reasons to be out:
Shopping for food and supplies
Care and caregiving
Exercise
Study or work – if you can’t do it from home.
Wherever you can, you should do these things as close to home as you can. If you do need to leave your postcode, those same restrictions – those same four reasons – travel with you. If you live outside these locations, there’s only four reasons to come into these communities: shopping for food and supplies, care and caregiving, exercise, and study or work – if you can’t do it from home.
Eligible local businesses will be able access an initial $5000 in support from the government.
Based on the most up-to-date advice of the Chief Health Officer, students will return to school after the school holidays.
For more information visit vic.gov.au/CORONAVIRUS
Staying Apart Keeps Us Together
The Victorian Government is backing regional accommodation businesses affected by the lockdown on some metropolitan suburbs with a fund to assist operators who will lose income due to cancelled bookings.
More than 300,000 Melburnians living in 10 postcodes are subject to strict stay at home orders until 11.59pm on 29 July, meaning many will be forced to cancel holidays they had previously booked at locations across the state.
Getting Behind Regional Tourism Businesses – And Families
The Victorian Government is backing regional accommodation businesses affected by the lockdown on some metropolitan suburbs with a fund to assist operators who will lose income due to cancelled bookings.
More tha 300,000 Melburnians living in 10 postcodes are subject to strict stay at home orders until 11.59pm on 29 July, meaning many will be forced to cancel holidays they had previously booked at locations across the state.
Minister for Industry Support and Recovery Martin Pakula announced that payments from a $5 million fund would be made available to regional businesses including motels, caravan parks and short-term rentals such as Airbnb properties that could demonstrate losses due to the new restrictions required to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Payments of up to $225 per cancelled booked night will be paid, with conditions including that full refunds are provided and no cancellation fees are levied.
The fund means that there is no good reason that families who had booked for precious time away in rural and regional Victoria and now have to cancel, through no fault of their own, will be out of pocket.
Accommodation businesses in 48 regional local government areas as well as the Yarra Ranges and the Mornington Peninsula shires will be covered for eligible bookings that were received from “hot zone” postcodes 3038, 3064, 3047, 3060, 3012, 3032, 3055, 3042, 3021, 3046 by 3pm on 30 June for the period 1 July to 29 July.
The $5 million support for regional accommodation businesses follows confirmation of one-off $5,000 payments that will be made available for eligible businesses in the 10 postcode areas subject to the return of Stage 3 restrictions.
Businesses that have received payroll tax refunds and waivers or $10,000 Business Support Fund grants are eligible for the further $5,000 grants.
Businesses can register for the $5,000 local lockdowns grant and the regional accommodation support fund at www.business.vic.gov.au.
Premier Andrews locks down individual suburbs from midnight tonight (Wednesday July 1st, 2020).
Strict rules on movement. Heavily enforced by police.
South Gippsland Shire Council is establishing an Economic Development Strategy Advisory Committee and a Visitor Economy Strategy Advisory Committee.
Several ratepayers chose to speak to their submissions in the recent budget s233 process. This process is a legal requirement under the Local Government Act. Council cannot approve a Budget until they have given, AND CONSIDERED, responses from ratepayers.
After reviewing the live stream of this meeting I felt compelled to write a letter of complaint to the Administrators since in my opinion, and it should be self-evident from watching the 5 minutes that I spoke for, that at least two of the 3 administrators were not listening.
At its meeting on June 24th, 2020, South Gippsland Shire Council reinforced its support for two major sport and reaction projects in the eastern end of the Shire.
At its meeting on Wednesday, South Gippsland Shire Council adopted the Venus Bay Tourism Precinct Plan.
The Precinct Plan was developed following a Council decision in February 2018 to prepare a plan to consider current and emerging issues related to the Venus Bay town centre in response to population and visitor growth.
The Andrews Labor Government will continue to reduce the cost of sessional kindergarten for families and provide kinders with extra cleaning for all of Term 3 as part of a $45 million support package during the coronavirus pandemic.
Minister for Education James Merlino announced the funding will provide $230 per child for Term 3, which is expected to save parents approximately half the cost of average kindergarten fees. This will mean that on average families will only pay $23 a week for sessional kindergarten in Term 3.
Perhaps the Budget Documents lost their cover page? With the amount of hidden detail and missing data one does wonder.
PROPOSAL-Every Rate Notice issued for the 2020-2021 year to receive a $800 refund subject to the following conditions.
a. Rate Notices with less than $800 due are to receive a maximum of the Rates Notice amount less the FSL charges.
b. Rates Notices will receive the full $800 refund when the Rates component paid to Council is at least $800.
Council have changed the way that s233 submissions are treated if the following is anything to go on. It appears that if the project you wish to discus is not in the next 12 months works they will refuse to even discuss or consider the proposal unless of course, they do entertain the discussion. So one can only think that they will now only consider submissions under the local government act if they agree with them or are happy to have them discussed in open and transparent style.
On June 1st, 2020, media watch on the ABC bemoaned the loss of regional journalism with the closure of the regional newspapers. Paul Barry said the greatest loss was that there would be no one to hold local government to account like the local newspapers could do.
The Victorian Government is supporting an open and orderly restart of the onshore conventional gas industry, with the Petroleum Legislation Amendment Bill 2020 passing the Legislative Council.
Production of the estimated resources could generate as much as $310 million annually for regional economies and create up to 6,400 jobs over the lifespan of these projects.
Marlene Kairouz has been named by the Age Investigation into branch stacking as complicit in the same operations that the disgraced Somyurek has been sacked over.
The Age newspaper quotes from secretly recorded tapes from the joint conference room she shares (shared) with Somyurek which shows her encouraging her staff to take part in the operation led by Somyurek.
Are Council Staff Inappropriately Involving Themselves in Recruiting Candidates for Council Elections?
Rumours have been flying around for a while that Council staff were hunting around for “suitable” candidates to run for Council at the next elections in Oct 2021. In line with this newspaper’s policy, this report needed facts, so I decided to investigate the issue further.
It’s likely that many readers drive through the Black Spur bends along the South Gippsland Highway between Koonwarra and Meeniyan.You may have noticed the delays and disturbance as highway re-alignment works proceed. You may not have noticed the platypus and Sacred Kingfishers that inhabit the adjoining wetlands.
An army of public hygiene and land maintenance workers employed to help slow the spread of coronavirus has been bolstered in a major push backed by the Victorian Government’s Working for Victoria fund.
As of 2 June 2020, there are 1,663 confirmed coronavirus cases in Victoria with 10 new cases overnight. More than 521,000 tests have been conducted, 1,563 have recovered and there have been 19 deaths.
Victoria’s population is set to double by 2050. As our population rises, so will our demand for quarry materials such as rock, gravel and sand in order to build homes, infrastructure and private sector development. It’s vital to ensure extractive resources are sourced close to where they’ll be used in construction.
Early 2017 Council approved the introduction of live streaming for Council meetings. The system worked reasonably well and was also extremely cheap to install.
20 years ago, I had a collectables shop in the centre of Melbourne where I dealt in phonecards, coins, and banknotes. It was a fun time
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