Locality Analysis - South Gippsland Shire Council

LOCALITY ANALYSIS STRATEGY VOL. 2 19/9/07
o May need to talk to the School Council re: future of the hall and demand
for indoor space
o Building an auditorium, to be used for school classes, also (secondary)
for community use
� Good Sports Programs have been making positive change
� Underage drinking, a cultural issue, not a sport club issue. Also an issue
of only a few activities for youth to do in a small town
� Structure Plan: public open space / Gippsland Water Treatment Plant?
Probably referring to the Lyre Bird Walk? Structure Plan: Land available
for sport and recreation: was mentioned -not an issue of land shortage,
but retaining what is currently there and avoiding incremental development
in open space
� Funding/ grants
o Supporting volunteers: an ongoing issue of time and money to offset
grant applications, can drain enthusiasm for involvement. Mirboo
Country Development is the umbrella group intended to support
community groups as a whole
o The Shire has a Grants Officer who works on sizable grant projects.
Groups need/want assistance filling in application forms, but too big
a job for the one Grants Officer to do
o Have 500-600 volunteer groups in the municipality
o Beside the Library is a small literary garden, started from a grant,
getting larger than the community group can’t support and now want
the Shire to manage the maintenance of it
o Councillors have $10k discretionary fund for community groups- at
times small assistance is a huge help (eg. pot hole grading)
o Question to ask when grants come to increase: should they increase
in cash donations or through provision of some services/tasks by the
Shire?
o Some tasks are not done well by volunteers/out of their league: eg.
project managing the implementation of the Baromi Park plan.
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o Need agreement over who is responsible for what eg the
Shire and volunteers
Househol d survey fi ndi ngs
� Fitness centre/ gymnasium and swimming pools were the
facilities that residents of Mirboo North indicated should be
priority if funding became available.
� 17% of respondents indicated they would like to go to the gym
for recreation when they currently don’t, other activities people
would like to do was also go swimming and walking.
� Upgrading of current facilities were also indicated as a priority
if funding became available, 70% of all respondents that
indicated priority funding should be spent on upgrading current
facilities resided in Mirboo North.
� Walking/ cycling paths and footpaths were the main things that
people indicated would help to meet their open space and
recreation needs. Maintaining/ developing parks and gardens
would also meet the needs of respondents in Mirboo North.
Other comments include:
� I would like to see better walking tracks developed, particularly
in Mirboo North
� Management of recreation reserves with the large amount of
different users is a huge problem, volunteers on these
committees are getting tired and must volunteer their own time
& resources as well to keep costs down, because reserves
they are under funded
� Please help volunteer groups to raise money for better sporting
facilities.
� We need a indoor training facility at the Mirboo North
Recreation Reserve for our netball and football club. There is a
building sitting there empty, not being used