Getting tough on soft drinks VISITORS to sports and leisure centres in Frankston will soon see sugary drinks disappear from prominent display as part of a health push to discourage the drinking of soft drinks loaded with high levels of sugar. Frankston Council is among the first of eight state councils who have teamed up with VicHealth to take part in a Water In Sport program aimed at reducing the promotion and availability of soft drinks at Victorian sports and recreation centres. VicHealth, part of the state government Department of Health and Human Services, announced grants totalling $500,000 to eight…
Author: Neil Walker
A MONITOR sent to Frankston Council to report to the state government on “governance issues” at council will be paid $1200 for each day of the stay. Ratepayers will foot the bill for monitor Prue Digby’s work at council and will also pick up the tab for travel expenses. The Labor state government confirmed when asked that the municipal monitor’s remuneration is fixed at $1200 per day, and must be paid by Frankston Council in accordance with the Local Government Act. Ms Digby is expected to work at least two days each week for a possible full 18-month term of…
MEMBERS of the public who attend Kingston Council meetings to watch councillors debate and vote on council matters may be filmed in future in the wake of a turbulent planning meeting last month. Cheers, jeers and dissent from the public gallery accompanied councillors’ debate on the contentious completion of the Bay Trail shared cycling and walking track from Mentone Life Saving Club to Parkdale’s Rennison St at a planning meeting on the evening of Wednesday 24 January. At the subsequent regular monthly public council meeting held on 29 January, South ward councillor Georgina Oxley won support, after much debate, from…
IT has taken more than two years but more car parking spaces may soon be available at Parkdale train station. Councillors at the Kingston Council public meeting last Monday (29 January) unanimously voted to push ahead with plans to revamp car parking spaces at the train station based on designs first drafted in September 2015. A council officers’ report tabled at the council meeting noted: “At present, there is no formal commuter car parking at Parkdale Railway Station recognised by PTV (Public Transport Victoria) or Metro Trains. “However, commuters have long been parking in informal angle car parks along both…
WHEN Maria Peters looks back on a 30-year career at Chisholm TAFE Institute she says it is the camaraderie between staff she will miss most of all in retirement. The CEO decided last year to step down at Chisholm Institute on 31 December and hand over the chief executive officer reins of the vocational education college’s campuses to successor Dr Richard Ede. “I know I’ll miss the people and I’ll miss the intellectual stimulation but I’m just looking to have some time to re-energise and I’ll always have my eye on Chisholm and I’m sure it’ll go on to bigger…