THE death of Brendan Ryan on 8 January, following another rough sleeper’s death in November, brings the number of homeless deaths on the peninsula to five over the last year. Community leaders have expressed exasperation at the lack of state government response to the spiralling situation and are renewing their calls for urgent action. Melbourne Zero, which actively tracks homelessness, listed 114 actively homeless people on the Mornington Peninsula as of December. The data lists 88 of those as “sleeping rough”. In the lead up to the busy summer period, Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Cr Anthony Marsh wrote to the…
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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has adopted its Road Management Plan 2025, a key strategy guiding inspection, maintenance, and repair of more than 1700km of roads.Councillors unanimously approved the final plan at their 14 October meeting, which is in line with the Road Management Act that requires councils to review their Road Management Plan (RMP) by 30 June following a general election.The plan, which includes footpaths and related infrastructure across the peninsula, ensures council can “continue delivering reliable and efficient road services, while working within available resources and maintaining transparency with the community”.It also defines the minimum service standards for road inspections…
A MOTION seeking to change council meeting governance rules to increase “scrutiny, transparency and accountability” was voted down by councillors at their 14 October meeting.The motion was moved by Cr David Gill and sought to amend the current governance rules to enable the right to ask questions of council officers, ensure the chair has a stated and recorded reason to reject a councillor’s question, ensure a councillor has a right to move a dissent motion against the chair, amend the procedure motions section to require a two-thirds majority to pass a procedural “put” motion, and to remove any potential subjectivity…