Bayside Council Proposes to Remove Funding for New Lights
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Attention members and local residents:
At the conclusion of the 2013 season, our home ground (Donald Macdonald Reserve) was set to receive a much needed lighting upgrade. The current lighting renders much of the ground unusuitable for night training, increasing the wear and tear on key parts of what is already a heavily worn and patchy playing surface.
We have been informed that the Bayside Council have decided to withdraw the funds needed to upgrade our lighting, as well as the facilities of other local sporting groups and given the entire fund to Sandringham FC for upgrade of the Trevor Barker Oval.
The decision to remove funding from the grass roots sporting clubs in the Bayside to benefit a professional sporting club who only have relatively few participants, along with PAID employees, is an absolute joke and strikes to the heart of the hard-working volunteers and players at the community clubs throughout Bayside.
Laurence Evans, is the Councillor that has put up this proposed change to the budget. He is a representative of the very ward that Macdonald Reserve is a part of, yet he is choosing to divert the funds outside of his own ward. We suggest that you get in contact with the two Southern Ward representatives to let your displeasure be known about this change.
Laurence Evans - Councillor -Southern Ward M: 0407 735 993 E: levans@bayside.vic.gov.auHeather Stewart - Councillor - Southern Ward - M: 0407 040 813 E:hstewart@bayside.vic.gov.au
The Jets will be drawing up an official petition shortly. We ask that when distributed, as many people sign it as possible, to help show the council, that decisions such as this aren't appreciated within the community in which they are elected to serve.
Please stay tuned to our social media and web site for more updates.
Thank you and go Jets!!
Attention members and local residents:
At the conclusion of the 2013 season, our home ground (Donald Macdonald Reserve) was set to receive a much needed lighting upgrade. The current lighting renders much of the ground unusuitable for night training, increasing the wear and tear on key parts of what is already a heavily worn and patchy playing surface.
We have been informed that the Bayside Council have decided to withdraw the funds needed to upgrade our lighting, as well as the facilities of other local sporting groups and given the entire fund to Sandringham FC for upgrade of the Trevor Barker Oval.
The decision to remove funding from the grass roots sporting clubs in the Bayside to benefit a professional sporting club who only have relatively few participants, along with PAID employees, is an absolute joke and strikes to the heart of the hard-working volunteers and players at the community clubs throughout Bayside.
Laurence Evans, is the Councillor that has put up this proposed change to the budget. He is a representative of the very ward that Macdonald Reserve is a part of, yet he is choosing to divert the funds outside of his own ward. We suggest that you get in contact with the two Southern Ward representatives to let your displeasure be known about this change.
Laurence Evans - Councillor -Southern Ward M: 0407 735 993 E: levans@bayside.vic.gov.au
Heather Stewart - Councillor - Southern Ward - M: 0407 040 813 E: hstewart@bayside.vic.gov.au
The Jets will be drawing up an official petition shortly. We ask that when distributed, as many people sign it as possible, to help show the council, that decisions such as this aren't appreciated within the community in which they are elected to serve.
Please stay tuned to our social media and web site for more updates.
Thank you and go Jets!!