KINGSTON Council officers are working on a report which will assess the future operation of the Patterson Lakes Community Centre. Earlier this year, the committee which had been running the centre stepped down. Committee members voted to hand over management to Kingston Council in April. Kingston Council’s community sustainability general manager Mauro Bolin told The News this week “Consumer Affairs Victoria has this month approved the application from the Patterson Lakes Community Centre Inc to cancel the association. Now this legal process has been completed, the cancellation of the Patterson Lakes Community Centre Inc is now complete.” “While this has…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
KINGSTON Council has refunded more than $850,000 worth of parking fines which may have been illegally issued between 2006 and 2016. Council set up the parking infringement reimbursement scheme last year after acknowledging that their method for processing parking fines may have been unlawful. The issue was council’s outsourcing of their parking fine appeal process. Council outsourced the process to an external agency for a decade, an action that it later discovered may have been a violation of the Infringements Act 2006 (“Parking fines will be refunded”, The News, 6/3/19). Fines issued in the Kingston municipality that were unsuccessfully appealed…
CORONAVIRUS cases in the Kingston municipality continue to rise, with at least 55 cases active in the area as of Monday 27 July. A cluster has broken out at the BUPA Edithvale aged care facility. Mordialloc MP Tim Richardson has confirmed that after one positive test was returned by a worker on 18 July, the number of active cases linked to the nursing home has grown to five. Victoria recorded its worst ever day of COVID-19 test results on Monday, with 532 new cases recorded. A total of around 3 per cent of tests processed statewide came back positive on…
A CENSURE motion has been passed by Frankston Council against Cr Steve Toms. Cr Toms had posted a video to his Facebook page spruiking council’s new free parking scheme. The video was later removed, and on 20 July councillors voted to censure him for it. It is understood this is the first censure motion moved at Frankston Council since March 2004. The motion read that Cr Toms was formally censured for “his recent social media post that has potentially contravened Frankston City Council policies and the Councillor Code of Conduct.” “Councillor Toms’ actions are in the opinion of this council…
THE federal government’s decision to reduce JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments will “throw many people into poverty”, Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says. From September, the JobKeeper payment will be cut to $1200 a fortnight and the JobSeeker payment will drop from $1,100 to $800. For people working less than 20 hours a week, JobKeeper payments will be further cut to $750. Ms Murphy told The Times “there are more than 30,000 people in Dunkley who currently rely on JobKeeper or JobSeeker to survive and sadly more people are expected to lose their jobs and businesses over coming months.” “If Mr Morrison…