MAR News July2010 ART.indd - Maribyrnong City Council
MAR News July2010 ART.indd - Maribyrnong City Council
MAR News July2010 ART.indd - Maribyrnong City Council
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ACTING CEO’S MESSAGE<br />
I’ve been appointed as Acting CEO following former<br />
CEO Kerry Thompson’s move to Wyndham <strong>City</strong> <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
We will miss Kerry greatly and we would all like to thank<br />
her for her seven years of dedicated service. <strong>Council</strong> is<br />
currently recruiting for a new CEO.<br />
In late June, <strong>Council</strong> adopted the 2010/11 budget, which targets improvements in<br />
community safety, renews community infrastructure assets and reduces inherited debt.<br />
This year’s budget also allows for cost shifting – which is the increased costs passed to<br />
<strong>Council</strong> by other levels of Government. An example of this is the requirement for <strong>Council</strong><br />
to investigate and monitor all possible rooming houses in our <strong>City</strong> – an administrative<br />
burden that will cost the <strong>City</strong> an extra $190,000 a year.<br />
No doubt many of you have seen the recently unveiled State Government major<br />
transport projects that are expected to run through our <strong>City</strong>. <strong>Council</strong> will examine these<br />
transport plans and prepare a ‘whole of <strong>Council</strong>’ response, your views will be sought to<br />
inform <strong>Council</strong>’s position.<br />
For more information about the State Government’s Victorian Transport Plan (VTP):<br />
• Visit the Info Hub at 61 Irving Street, Footscray, from Wednesday to Saturday.<br />
Call the VTP Info Line on 1800 078 387 for more information about the Regional Rail Link or the Truck Action Plan.<br />
Call the Linking Melbourne Authority on 8562 6800 for more information about the WestLink road project.<br />
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Acting CEO Vince Haining.<br />
Photo credit: Sharon Walker.<br />
VOLUNTEERS PLANT TREES<br />
in Beaton Reserve<br />
A recent tree planting day at Beaton Reserve in Yarraville saw a team<br />
of community volunteers pitch in to help plant 29 new trees.<br />
Cr Martin Zakharov (centre) and Clean and Green Member<br />
Don Torr (left) with little volunteers Mischa and Iliya Zakharov.<br />
Winter 2010<br />
The <strong>Maribyrnong</strong> Clean and Green Team, with<br />
support from <strong>Council</strong>, planted new trees to replace<br />
11 dead, dying and diseased trees that needed to<br />
be removed.<br />
“Beaton Reserve is a wonderful local park and the tree planting<br />
was a fantastic opportunity for our community to really get<br />
involved in further beautifying our neighbourhood,” said<br />
<strong>Council</strong>lor for Sheoak Ward, Cr Martin Zakharov.<br />
“Clean and Green events are a great way to meet new people,<br />
have fun and make a difference to the environment and our<br />
community,” said Cr Zakharov.<br />
Clean and Green <strong>Maribyrnong</strong> is a volunteer based community<br />
group that undertakes a range of environmental activities in the<br />
<strong>City</strong> of <strong>Maribyrnong</strong>, including litter clean up days, tree planting<br />
and graffi ti removal. New members are always welcome.<br />
For more information about Clean and Green <strong>Maribyrnong</strong><br />
contact <strong>Council</strong>’s Community Engagement Project Officer<br />
on 9688 0200 or visit<br />
www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/cleanandgreen