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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors were on Monday poised to give themselves the right to spend an extra $14,000 over their…
TWO Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors who attended a United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris late last year have fulfilled…
MORNINGTON Peninsula councillors are divided over a revised code of conduct that discourages them from making personal attacks on each…
DETAILS of each councillor’s spending on allowances will not be released until Mornington Peninsula Shire’s annual report, possibly as late…
IT WAS a small gallery that gathered at the shire’s Rosebud bunker for the council meeting of Tuesday evening, 15…
SHIRE staff have given councillors revised details of their spending on seminars and conferences during the current council term that…
THE first thing the alert observer noticed at the Monday 8 February meeting of Mornington Peninsula Shire Council was the…
TWO Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors have overspent their seminars and conferences allowance, one by more than 92 per cent. Figures…
CAN it be the coming council election? A series of malignant New Year resolutions? Whatever it was, hopes were dashed…
ANALYSIS THE state government’s recent move to tighten rules to control councillors and council staff raises some interesting issues, the…
AFFABLE new shire mayor Graham Pittock was given a damned good tryout at his first council meeting of 2015-16. He…
RESIDENTS wanting to help shape the way the shire council spends its income can have a say about the 2016-17…
Those anticipating a community meeting of Mornington Peninsula Shire Council at Somerville on Monday 26 October were gutted to learn…
COUNCILS looking to get around the state government’s rate cap plan are believed to feel they have found an answer…
THE seemingly long wait over, it was all eager anticipation on 14 October at the first Mornington Peninsula Shire Council…
THE “age-friendliness” of the Mornington Peninsula was a major topic at the shire’s first Positive Ageing Community Summit held on…
GREAT sheets of silent lightning flashed over the Rip as Council Watch headed for the Rosebud meeting, listening in the…
WAS it a Ghillie Dhu* or a Shellycoat* who, at the 24 August council meeting, spirited a packet of family…
FOR council watchers, the shire’s austerity drive is plain to see. It’s the biscuits. Now only a small jar accompanies…
THE sound you can perhaps hear on the shire’s recording of its 27 July meeting is not what you might…
Venue: Hastings Hub, 22 June 2015. Fine buffet, but spartan for the discerning vegetarian, with carnivores far more generously catered…
Besgrove St bunker, 7pm Tuesday 9 June. Stalwarts cooled (literally) their heels until doors were unlocked. Initial absence of biscuits remedied personally…
SHIRE councillors have abolished the council committee that deals with major planning matters on the Mornington Peninsula. The Development Assessments…
Mornington Peninsula Shire community council meeting, Rosebud Memorial Hall, 25 May 2015. No personal account can be given of the…
IN ROSEBUD, “a dark and stormy night” was threatening. This, the much-derided first sentence of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford…
Monday 27 April. Venue: Main Ridge Community Hall. A good crowd. The usual healthy pre-meeting buffet was provided. Council Watch…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire’s contentious Municipal Charge, now $180 per domestic rate notice, is to be reviewed, shire CEO Carl Cowie…
Monday 23 March. Venue: Mt Martha Life Saving Club. Briefings at 5pm, meal at 6, council meeting at 7. Salmon…
Community meeting, Monday, 23 February. Venue: Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club. An outstanding chocolate cake was served (with real cream)…