Healthy Living in Yarra Ranges | Yarra Ranges Views

Healthy Living in Yarra Ranges | Yarra Ranges Views:

Yarra Ranges Council seeks your feedback and advice for the Health and Wellbeing Plan (2013-2017)

What's your experience of healthy living in Yarra Ranges? How healthy are you and your family?Can you access the services you need, the fresh food you want and low cost exercise activities?

Your input will help Council to target resources to support good health, plan for our services and, importantly, advocate to state and federal governments about local needs. 

Yarra Ranges urged to rethink rates rise

Yarra Ranges urged to rethink rates rise | Maroondah & Yarra Ranges Weekly:

Comment:
a great read
a great reason to expand Coldstream

Lets have 1000 more houses around Coldstream
that's 1000 more rates to be collected
that's MILLIONS of dollars to spend in the Shire.

$53 Million to help Shires with FSL Introduction on July 1 2013

Fire levy to take $50 million extra from ratepayers | thetelegraph.com.au:

 "Mr O'Brien said the Government was providing $53 million to help local councils implement and collect the levy, and to appoint a Fire Services Levy Monitor."

Comment:

From the article above and the $53 million up for grabs I wondered what our Shire would get.

Below is a response from Glenn Patterson,  CEO Yarra Ranges:

Hi Mario

The State Revenue Office’s letter of the 25 March advised that the Department of Treasury and Finance is still consulting with the MAV to determine the amounts of directing funding to councils. So at this stage we have no idea what we will get for implementation and recurrent cost reimbursement.

So far the State has directly funded an upgrade of council IT systems and is working with the MAV to ensure the centralised upgrade is developed and installed.

Other things that the State has committed to do directly are:

·         A comprehensive communication campaign over the coming months

·         Suppling a brochure for inclusion with the first rate notice

·         Coordinating customer service and rate office staff training at each council office.

I am guessing that with the State funding a number of larger items directly, the amount we are likely to receive will not be that large.

Happy for you to publish this.

Glenn

Regards Glenn Patterson Chief Executive Officer P:   (03) 9294 6101 M:  0428 515603 F:   (03) 9294 6194 E:   g.patterson@yarraranges.vic.gov.au W:  www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au please consider the environment before printing this email

Coldstream's Rochford Winery given approval to increase the size of concerts after cap removed | Leader Newspapers East Melbourne | Local Community News VIC | Knox Leader | Manningham Leader | Maroondah Leader | Whitehorse Leader | Waverley Leader | Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader | Free Press Leader | Herald Sun

"ROCHFORD Wines has been given approval to increase the size of its popular concert series."

..................  in part


Councillor Fiona McAllister said this had affected the ability of Rochford to attract events, which in turn had impacted on visitation numbers to the area and the local economy.

"We can't ignore the fact that tourism is a significant contributor to the culture, the vibrancy and the local economy," Cr McAllister said.

The council received more than 90 submissions supporting the application and only two objections.

Averages\Extremes Weather for the month of March 2013 for Coldstream 3770

Average temperature     = 19.9°C

Average humidity        = 64%

Average dewpoint        = 12.0°C

Average barometer       = 1015.3 hPa

Average windspeed       = 3.1 km/h

Average gustspeed       = 5.7 km/h

Average direction       = 55° ( NE)

Rainfall for month      = 42.2 mm

Rainfall for year       = 117.0 mm

Maximum rain per minute = 1.0 mm on day 16 at time 15:16

Maximum temperature     = 38.2°C on day 11 at time 16:47

Minimum temperature     = 5.8°C on day 29 at time 06:27

Maximum humidity        = 97% on day 31 at time 09:01

Minimum humidity        = 22% on day 04 at time 18:46

Maximum dewpoint        = 19.6°C on day 08 at time 11:03

Minimum dewpoint        = 4.6°C on day 17 at time 12:16

Maximum pressure        = 1024.0 hPa on day 02 at time 10:36

Minimum pressure        = 999.1 hPa on day 21 at time 17:07

Maximum windspeed       = 25.9 kmh from 360°( N ) on day 27 at time 15:44

Maximum gust speed      = 50.0 km/h from 00°( N ) on day 27 at time 16:15

Maximum heat index      = 38.4°C on day 08 at time 15:32

Avg daily max temp :27.5°C

Avg daily min temp :12.6°C

Total windrun = 2275.1km

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Robert Bethell