Mount Alexander Council Environment Strategy 2015-2025 – 2nd draft available

Posted on 3 July, 2015 by Connecting Country

The Mount Alexander Shire Council has released the second draft of their Environment Strategy 2015-2025. We are appreciative that the community has been given further opportunities to provide feedback on this important document before it is considered and approved by the councilors in late July 2015. Follow the link HERE to go to the council website, which has the document available for download.

From our quick initial review of the revised Strategy, it appears that items raised by Connecting Country in regard to the first draft have been addressed in some way. (To compare the two draft Strategies, the first draft is still available on the earlier Connecting Country web-post – click here).

The Council have invited community members and organizations to pre-book a timeslot to meet with staff and discuss the revised strategy. Sessions are available between 3.00pm and 7.00pm on Thursday 9 July. To book your session with Council staff, contact Dallas Giles, Healthy Environments Administration Officer, on 5471 1768 or via email (d.giles@mountalexander.vic.gov.au). Sessions will be held at the Ray Bradfield Rooms, between the Maxi IGA carpark and Victory Park, Castlemaine.

Representatives of Connecting Country have made a booking to meet with council staff on this day. If you have suggestions about feedback that Connecting Country as an organization should provide about the revised draft strategy, please let us know (info@connectingcountry.org.au). However, if you have particular strong feelings about the document or if your suggestions are not directly relevant to Connecting Country, we would also encourage you to pass this directly to council through their feedback process. It is our understanding that 9 July is the last day for feedback.