An estimate from Moreland City Council indicates an annual maintenance investment of $50K/yr, in addition to the capital works investments of $600K over the years.
This, of course, does not include any of the grant funds received by the community for the purposes of community planting.
It’s clear the community and Council are investing good money into [...]
On 3 August the Moreland Leader published an affirmation of the council’s support for the retention of the Edgars Creek parkland as public open space. (see attached article). We need hundreds of concerned residents to email or phone Andrew Mackinnon supporting the retention of the parkland and asking to be kept informed on what is [...]
Since the original commitment from Moreland Council on 14 Feb 2007, a local government election led to a substantial number of new councillors representing residents. Many councillors indicated their support in a pre-election pledge request provided to them by MECPG but they were individually given as candidates rather than elected councillors. Thus, we requested Moreland [...]
MECPG strongly supports other local resident groups fighting to ensure important local matters are at the forefront of politician’s minds. The recently formed Newlands Community Alliance is a community based voluntary group which was recently formed to advocate on matters that are important to local residents. They have asked all candidates in the North East [...]
With the upcoming Moreland City Council elections being hotly contested by candidates seeking your vote, MECPG has written to each candidate in each ward, asking them to pledge that, if elected, they will:
1. Ratify the resolution passed by the Moreland City Council at its meeting on February 14th 2008 that the Merri and Edgars Creek [...]
