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Help shape an accessible Peninsula
Mornington Peninsula Shire invites community minded people with lived experience of disability to join our Disability Advisory Committee (DAC).
Committee members are asked to give feedback on upcoming plans and projects the Shire is working on to make sure they are inclusive of people with disabilities.
Committee membership is made up of a majority of people with a disability, up to two carers or close family members of someone with a disability and up to two people from a community group or organisation with a demonstrated interest in supporting people with a disability.
Shire shies away from ‘racist’ database
RACISM has been raised as a reason by some Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors for not supporting the creation of a database of foreign owned land in the green wedge zone.
Cr Sarah Race said moves to establish a database of foreign owned land within the peninsula’s green wedge areas “seems to have racist undertones”.
“I’m very uncomfortable highlighting foreign ownership rather than generally,” she said.
Cr David Gill said having a database made sense following revelations about the many millions of dollars in donations being made to political parties by land developers.
God purged from council ‘prayer’
THE 150-year-old tradition of reciting a prayer before local government meetings on the Mornington Peninsula has been scrapped after a motion by rookie councillor Anthony Marsh.
His notice of motion, tabled at Mornington Peninsula Shire’s 8 December meeting and passed with a 6-5 majority, replaces the “prayer” with a “pledge” by councillors to act in the best interests of the community.
Council officers advised that the existing prayer was in the governance rules of the council and that, under the Local Government Act, could not be dropped without community consultation. It could, however, be altered, and Cr Marsh’s notice of motion suggested just that.