Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association

Mark Paganini, Manager of Eastern Victoria, Conservation Volunteers Australia has asked UKVCA to publicise an upcoming local Green Army team to be based out of Bright, commencing on 25th January, 2016.  A Green Army team did some wonderful work in and around Mt. Beauty in the first half of 2015.

If you, or anyone you know, is interested in applying to join this team, further information and the application page can be found  on the blue link below….

https://www.ukvcommunity.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Green-Army-Alpine-Valleys-January-2016.pdf

Two UKVCA committee members attended the Alpine Shire Special Council Meeting  on the 17th December, 2015.  A number of issues across the Shire were addressed and signed off.  Please click on the blue link below to see a summary of the issues relevent to Mt. Beauty and the Kiewa Valley.

Summary of Special Council Meeting

If you are walking the Gorge Walk track to the Gorge Canyon and you see willows growing in the river, you are requested to pull out as many willow saplings as possible.  Willows only grow where they have access to permanent water and are a noxious species.

	A large noxious willow in the gorge.
UKVCA member, Mary, pulling out a willow sapling.	Dying and dead saplings high above the river course.
	The river with willow saplings before a group of students from Bogong Outdoor School helped Jim in removing them.   More help is still needed.

Toss the saplings as far up into the surrounding bush as possible – you will see evidence of dead saplings on your walk particularly in the upper part of the Gorge walk.  Saplings die off quickly if out of water but will re-shoot if they are in or near water.  Your help with this project  will save UKVCA member, Jim, many hours of voluntary work trying to eradicate them and it will also help protect our waterways.

Please spread this message to your family, friends and visitors.

A meeting to further investigate if the Mt. Beauty community can pursue this  project will be held on Thursday, 3rd December, 7.30pm at                         AUDITORIUM@informationcentre

Click on this link for larger print     Grant meeting info

HOW CAN ART TRANSFORM YOUR TOWN?

Following last Wednesday’s well attended meeting with Regional Arts Victoria with regard to the ‘Small Town Transformations’ project, those in attendance decided to have a follow-up meeting to discuss if our community could participate.  This needs to be done quickly as the application must be in by February and there is a lot of down time between now and then.   The AUDITORIUM@informationcentre has been booked for next Thursday, December 3 at 7.30pm.  This is a project which must include the community at large, so if you have any ideas of how ART (of any kind) can improve our town/s please come and share your ideas.  Those who were at the meeting, please get this message to your friends and associates.  If you can’t come make sure someone is there to put forward your ideas.

The Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association have been informed by Alpine Shire Council that  scheduled gravel re-sheeting works on Kiewa Valley roads will be undertaken on the following roads:

• Crowthwaite Lane
• Cemetery Lane
• Gentile Lane
• Costantino Lane
• Reids Lane
• Hobbs Lane
• Ryders Lane

The works are scheduled to be undertaken in March – April, 2016, to align with ideal seasonal conditions and the capacity of the road maintenance crew.

The Upper Kiewa Valley Communication Association as well as town centre retailers and the Hospital have been informed that works will commence in Park Street on Monday, 30th November and will be completed prior to Christmas.  Alpine Shire Council have indicated that the only works to occur in the Town Centre during January, 2016 will be the landscape works in the Park Street reserve.  Other planned kerb and landscape works will recommence in February, 2016 with all works anticipated to be done by the end of March.

A November project bulletin will be posted on the ‘Major Projects’ tab on the Alpine Shire Council website next week.

For a more detailed plan of the proposed works click on the blue link below.

Roadworks Plan & Program

If you were unable to attend the public forum last week on this issue, you can now view the video of the proceedings and discussions online:  https://youtu.be/uBmOOQcoVIM

The planning documents are also now on display at the Mt. Beauty library as well as feed-back sheets where you can provide your responses to Georgina Curtis at Alpine Shire Council by mail or  by email:    georginac@alpineshire.vc.gov.au

Regional Arts Victoria Information Session

A Small Town Transformations Information Session will be held in Mt. Beauty to discuss and support possible impactful artistic projects that are connected to community and place, for and by small Victorian towns.

DATE:  Wednesday, 25th November, 2015         TIME:  12.30pm

VENUE:  Mt. Beauty AUDITORIUM@informationcentre, Kiewa Valley Highway

Click on the blue link above for more information.

Apologies if you have already seen this notice on the Mt. Beauty community Facebook site.

If you were unable to attend the information session yesterday (11/11/15) you may like to view the plans that were presented at the public forum.

Option 1  –  Plans proposed for the current site:                                        Option 2  –  Plans proposed for a co-location of the library with the Information Centre and Kiewa Valley Historical Society:

These plans and others are now on display at the Mt. Beauty library.  There are feed back sheets at the library and the session will be available online or it can be viewed at the library.  You can also provide email feedback on these proposed plans to    georginacurtis@alpineshire.vic.gov.au

The Alpine Shire Council welcomes feedback before any decision is made.