THE Kooweerup Township Committee has asked the Cardinia Shire to redefine the criteria for Australia Day Award nominations. At their meeting, the committee found the criteria was quite vague and found it difficult to come up with any nominations.
POTHOLES behind the Kooweerup Scout Hall have not been addressed, according to Councillor Stuart Halligan – because the council can not decide who owns them.
A LIST of vacant blocks with long grass in Kooweerup has been given to the shire by the township committee. It is council policy that vacant blocks be slashed once a year and they plan to slash the blocks by the end of November. Committee member Jack Nunn said if left much longer, the grass would be a couple of feet high by mid-December. He singled out Shelton Park as an example of how bad the problem was.
BASS candidates addressed the committee in the lead-up to the election. Greens candidate Neil Rankine suggested the township committee write a letter to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) asking them to evaluate the level of air and noise pollution created by the increased traffic flow into the town through the opening of the Pakenham Bypass.
Liberal candidate Ken Smith told the committee that he had followed up with the Minister of Housing about the possibility of building more public housing in Kooweerup. He said nothing had progressed since earlier this year, but the department was still interested in the land behind the hospital.
Mr Smith said he had also secured a guarantee from his party that should they be elected they would make $150,000 available immediately to conduct a feasibility study into the connection of natural gas to Kooweerup.
REPRESENTATIVES from South East Water will attend the December meeting of the township committee to get feedback of various issues of water in and out of Kooweerup.
It will include discussion on the upgrade of the sewerage treatment plant and the level of water pressure. The meeting will be held at the historical society on Wednesday 17 November at 7.30pm.
