Council

Council welcomes six trainees

BASS Coast Shire Council is delighted to announce the addition of six new trainees. They will undertake a 12-month traineeship, each working with a different team within the council. In their work, they will be contributing to important project...

Sentinel-Times

17 Apr 2024

Council

Cr Whelan: Chained to the chair?

TWO-TERM former mayor, Cr Michael Whelan, seems to be having trouble handing over the reins to his colleague, Cr Clare Le Serve. On several occasions at last Wednesday’s council meeting, Cr Whelan tried to lay down the law to his fellow...

Michael Giles

21 Mar 2024

Council

Can’t build a house on this site at Silverleaves, they say

GOING against the expert opinion of its own shire officers, the Bass Coast Shire Council has made a decision that local real estate agents say will send shockwaves through the Silverleaves settlement on Phillip Island. Despite Melbourne Water...

Michael Giles

21 Mar 2024

Council

Bass Coast: Three-storeys one side, two-storeys the other

- How the shire’s neighbourhood rules might affect you IF YOU can believe it, there are nine different Neighbourhood Character Areas to get you head around in the shire’s long-awaited review of neighbourhood character in residential zones across...

Michael Giles

19 Mar 2024

Council

Finally, the ‘Passivhaus’ glass goes in at Berninneit

WE FINALLY have the real answer to a question asked of the Bass Coast Shire Council on May 17 last year about when ‘the German windows’ for the Cowes Cultural Centre would be arriving. Fact is they are arriving almost four months after...

Michael Giles

28 Feb 2024

Council

No chains, no respect: What we know about the mayor’s missing regalia

THE mayor’s chains of office, worth up to $100,000, are officially missing, likely stolen. For the first time since the Borough of Wonthaggi’s most important piece of cultural heritage was last seen, around the time of the Wonthaggi Centenary...

Michael Giles

27 Feb 2024

Council

Mayor Williams welcomes package of support measures for Mirboo North

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council Mayor, Cr Clare Williams has welcomed the joint announcement by the Federal Government and State government late last night of a package of support for Mirboo North and other storm damaged communities. Speaking on...

Sentinel-Times

23 Feb 2024

Council

No signs of safety improvements at our beaches

NOTHING has happened since four people drowned at Forrest Caves on Wednesday, January 24. No new signs have been erected. The ‘Warning’ sign with a swimming symbol crossed out in red, is still half buried in the sand at entrance to ‘Anzacs’...

Michael Giles

23 Feb 2024

Council

How Council aims to bury Berninneit’s operational costs

DON’T hold your breath if you’re looking for some accountability on financial success or otherwise of the new Cowes cultural centre, Berninneit. The Bass Coast Shire Council was happy to provide individual figures on Berninneit when it...

Michael Giles

22 Feb 2024

Council

Meeniyan and Dumbalk voters to join Venus Bay in new election model

ON THE face of it, at least, the single proposal put forward by the Victorian Electoral Commission for a new ward structure in the South Gippsland Shire appears to have gone out of its way to disadvantage the voters of Coastal Promontory Ward. Where...

Michael Giles

15 Feb 2024

Council

Islanders’ vote devalued but at least they’re all together

THE preferred option for an adjustment to the Bass Coast Shire Council ward structure, ahead of the October 2024 elections, would see the residents and ratepayers of Phillip Island suffering a significant devaluation to their voting power. Where it...

Michael Giles

15 Feb 2024

Council

Where to get your phone charged in Bass Coast

NEED to charge your phone? The Bass Coast Shire Council has swung into action providing generators and free mobile phone charging points at various locations across the shire. A spokesperson for the shire said free mobile phone charging stations...

Michael Giles

14 Feb 2024

Council

$117,000 in grants for twenty South Gippsland organisations

TWENTY organisations contributing to South Gippsland shared in $117,000 of Community Grants announced at the council chambers in Leongatha on Wednesday evening. “They’re one of the most direct ways that we support projects in our community,”...

Sentinel-Times

14 Feb 2024