Council

How healthy is your community? Tell us what you think!

Some of the Post It Note ideas contributed at Bass Coast’s Healthy Communities Plan pop-up sessions. THE Bass Coast Shire Council has its Healthy Communities Plan 2025-29 out for public consultation and there’s already been a healthy response to...

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Michael Giles

11 hours ago

Council

Thanks for keeping the tradition alive, says Bass Coast Mayor

IT’S an important national day but for many people, Anzac Day is personal. It is for Bass Coast Mayor Cr Rochelle Halstead. Here in part is what she had to say at a very well-attended service on the foreshore at San Remo. “Across the country...

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Sentinel-Times

25 Apr 2025

Council

Tough decisions ahead for South Gippsland Shire asset management

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council’s Draft Asset Plan 2025 to 2035 highlights the need for more detailed consideration of what approach council will take to managing the large building portfolio for which it has responsibility, including how it will...

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Sentinel-Times

25 Apr 2025

Council

Bass Coast won’t rip up dust suppressant seals for now

THE backlash over moves by the Bass Coast Shire Council to rip up dust suppressant seals on seven residential streets around the shire has had the desired result – for now. The shire issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, April 24, ahead of the...

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Sentinel-Times

24 Apr 2025

Council

Heated debate over lack of funding for Phillip Island Recreation Reserve

IT STARTED with a simple request at last month’s Bass Coast Council for councillors to meet with the public for an informal coffee and a chat after each council meeting. Council agreed and this month during the historic first Bass Coast Council...

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Sentinel-Times

24 Apr 2025

Council

Reid Street dustbowl not an option, they say

THE prospect of the Bass Coast Shire Council tearing up a relatively good bitumen road, in Reid Street, Rhyll, as early as next month, and leaving it as a dust bowl, likely for years before a solution could be found, was simply too much for the good...

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Sentinel-Times

24 Apr 2025

Council

Community has 37 more questions for Bass Coast Council

A TOTAL of 37 community questions were put to the Bass Coast Shire Council at its meeting in the Berninneit Cultural Centre in Cowes last Wednesday, April 16 on subjects as diverse as private street seals, replying to letters, the installation of...

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Sentinel-Times

22 Apr 2025

Council

New emergency levy prompts South Gippsland to cut farm rates

A FEATURE of the draft South Gippsland Shire Council’s $94 million budget, handed down at a meeting of council last Wednesday, April 16 is the proposal to shift part of the burden of rates off the shire’s farmers. While many in the rural sector...

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Sentinel-Times

18 Apr 2025

Council

Reid Street dustbowl not an option, they say

THE prospect of the Bass Coast Shire Council tearing up a relatively good bitumen road, in Reid Street Rhyll, as early as next month, and leaving it as a dust bowl for likely years before a solution could be found was simply too much for the good...

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Sentinel-Times

17 Apr 2025

Council

Here’s a chance for Bass Coast farmers to cut their rates

THE Bass Coast Shire Council is set to release its draft new ‘Revenue and Rating Plan’ at this week’s council meeting, going out for public comment and feedback over a 28-day period from Thursday, April 17 until Wednesday, May 14, 2025. It’s...

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Sentinel-Times

13 Apr 2025

Council

Bass Coast Shire unveils $123 million budget

THE Bass Coast Shire Council has unveiled a new $123.1 million budget ahead of this Wednesday’s council meeting of which $87.5 million is allocated to day-to-day Council operations, $31.4 million to capital works and $5.035 million in debt...

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Sentinel-Times

13 Apr 2025

Council

Bass Coast’s Berninneit still dogged by Passivhaus pain

BERNINNEIT, the Cowes cultural and community centre, has still not achieved Passivhaus certification. The status of the accreditation process was revealed by Bass Coast Shire Council CEO Greg Box in answer to a community question about the issue at...

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Michael Giles

22 Mar 2025

Council

Leongatha’s Memorial Hall is yours, what do you want to do about it?

WHAT should the council do with the Memorial Hall. Maybe you like it just the way it is, and a simple refurbishment of the toilets and a bit of scheduled maintenance is all that’s needed. Maybe you represent a local community group which already...

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Michael Giles

21 Mar 2025