The close of voting for the South Gippsland Shire Council elections has been extended by one week to 6 pm Friday 29 October, to ensure all voters in the Shire have the opportunity to cast a considered vote.
Electoral Commissioner, Warwick Gately, has requested printers to work through the weekend to reprint a number of ballot packs that have not been delivered.
Over the two plus years of administration we have seen all avenues of public participation at council meetings closed to the public. The result has been an organisation that only shows the monthly agenda to the public 5 days before the council meeting. The three public presentation sessions per month have been ended and the administrators and staff have enabled a system of hurdles placed in front of Councillors which prevent any new inexperienced councillors from knowing how to make any changes at Council.
Along with these changes officers requested and administrators approved a new version of the local laws governing Council meetings procedure and the main change made was to prevent councillors calling for a notice of motion to change an existing council policy. Result being that Councillors would only be able to make changes to policies when the officers brought it to a council meeting for review.
The Mirboo North Pool redevelopment has been on the books at council for more than 10 years and after the 2012 election there was an attempt at Council to curtail its existence. This met with the traditional Mirboo North response to any attempt to close the pool and that was organised resistance!
The resistance team led by the Friends of Mirboo North Pool committee have had 25 years of practice since the pool was on the Council list for “closure” from when the Councils were amalgamated back in 1994. During that time, they honed their skills, and organised themselves to become a finely tuned team in step with the community at all stages.
Half of Prom Coast Ward could be culled, 1446 voters gone from Prom Coast Ward already. 5650 voters may be removed from Shire voting lists.
All those voters enrolled for the 2016 Council election were still eligible to vote in the current election in South Gippsland. Anyone who purchased a property or changed their address since that date but who was not on the State electoral roll as their principal place of residence at their new South Gippsland property were not included in the CEO Council electoral roll.
Meet Gabrielle Boyd, a strong, competent and determined woman, who played a significant role towards incorporating gender equality into the Australian Rugby League and through love, ended up principal of the innovative Welshpool and District Primary School.
Gabbi was born and raised in the attractive, small town of Warialda; an aboriginal name translating to ‘Place of wild honey’. Warialda is situated in the North West Slopes region of New South Wales and has a population of approximately fifteen hundred people. To this day, Gabbi’s ageing parents remain in the family home, while their offspring have flown the coop in different directions. Visiting each other has sadly been impossible throughout the pandemic.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred 10km under Mansfield at 9.15am on September 21st.
The quake was felt in Mirboo North and shook houses. No reports at this stage of serious damage.
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