KINGSTON Council passed their 2019/2020 budget at this week’s council meeting, but not before it kicked off another debate about the Bay Trail.
Cr Tamsin Bearlsey said “I’m very uncomfortable with this budget.”
“I’m really concerned about how this budget is misleading about the actual cost of the Bay Trail. It mentions a figure that the Bay Trail is to cost $4.4 million, but at the last council meeting we just awarded a $5.4 million contract,” she said.
“A project that was supposed to cost in its entirety $2.7 million in 2017 has blown out to over $8 million, that needs to be stated boldly.
“This current budget is a Bay Trail rate rise budget. We are increasing amount raised from general rates by $5 million, and that is basically the blowout of the Bay Trail.”
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 26 June 2019
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The actions of the Kingston Council with regard to the narrowing of Beach Road. I absolutely outrages in the face of Community condemnation.
I am very disappointed in the Kingston Council regarding the Bay Trail. They asked the people what they wabted and did the opposite at an extraordinary extra cost, To add insult to injury the trees they plan to beautify Beach Road will not achieve that objective. Australia has many more beautiful trees but unfortunately many of them are liable to lose limbs without much warning.