City of Maroondah

The Eastern Region Group of Councils has strongly criticized state planning changes requiring councils to manage building inspection reports outside the state's Building Activity Management system.

The group members, Knox, Manningham, Maroondah, Whitehorse, and Yarra Ranges, argue the Victorian Government is transferring administrative costs to local ratepayers instead of fixing its own inadequate central database.

Peak bodies are calling for standalone building permit levy revenues to be reinvested into upgrading system infrastructure rather than imposing extra red tape on local councils.

Merri-bek Council has welcomed a commitment to duplicate the Upfield train line between Gowrie and Upfield stations, alongside key level crossing removals.

In 2018, the Andrews government launched the 20-minute neighbourhood pilot programme in Melbourne, selecting three neighbourhoods as pilots.

Sunshine West in Brimbank City Council, Strathmore in Moonee Valley City Council, and Croydon South in the City of Maroondah.

Moreno will be one of the keynote speakers of the AGES Melbourne Assembly Conference in October, presented in partnership with the University of Melbourne.

The conference will be Moreno's first visit to Australia, but he devoted a chapter of his book, The 15-Minute City, a solution to saving our time and our planet, to Australia, by identifying Croydon South Shopping Strip as a local hub of activity.

Berwick Orchid Club have got their show on at the Senior Citizens Hall.

And Maroondah, I mentioned that one, Australasian Native Orchid Society is at Mount Waverley Community Centre in Mount Waverley in Victoria.

Wow, what a collection of questions and events that are on this weekend.

Have a great weekend.

Yes, I was in Ringwood last night.

Now, I was with the good people of Maroondah.

Now, we were celebrating the Maroondah Business Excellence Awards.

Oh, who weren't?

I've been

And sadly, under this program, that council has determined that that is the price for parking on their land, which probably does need a review, to say it politely.

Is that the standard across the board for councils? Because I know I covered this because it's footy finals time, so it comes up, right? But I covered this last year with the Maroondah Council, but I think the fine was like $250 and I thought that was excessive then, but this is like another level.

Oh, sadly for everyone, it's a highly confusing system.

Each council is allowed to set not only the rate, but whether it's an offence.

Did you know that councils can set the price of some parking fines? I did not know this.

So what happened last year, and last year it happened in the City of Maroondah, and this year it is in the City of Whittlesea.

Um, people can't park around the streets when there's a foot-- local footy game on.

If you regularly go to suburban footy, you'll know sometimes they get thousands of people to a final, and the council knows this.

And was this the Whittl- was this Gre- sorry, Greensborough area, was it?

No.

So it's, it was the Maroondah Footy Club, but it's more, you know, the City of Whittlesea, their council.

There's some shocking areas through there.

There is a lot of great organisations out there providing support services.

If they're based in Shepparton or Maroondah, because we've both worked in it, they often have a lot of outreach workers to the smaller towns.

So if you're listening to this radio interview today, maybe bring up some of those services and ask the intake worker or the worker that you speak with Do you do outreach to our small town? Just for those more sort of isolated towns.

If you don't have access to transport or one bus a day, it's very hard to get to appointments in town.