Melton Indoor Recreation Centre
1 / Open Space Maintenance Contract (ISS) / $4.028M / Maintenance of 950 ha of Council owned open space across 1175 separate parks, reserves, walkways and traffic treatments. Note, this does not include the 1800 ha (approximately) of environmental reserves maintained by Council.
Includes a provisional sum of $516K for maintenance and minor upgrade works to areas of open space.
2 / Open Space Maintenance – High Profile Sites (Programmed Maintenance Services) / $305,000 / Maintenance of key high visibility open space – maintained to a higher standard than other open space.
The designated High Profile sites are:
- Melton Civic Centre
- Melton Library
- Melton Indoor Recreation Centre
- Melton Waves
- The Willows Historic Park
- Caroline Springs Sport Stadium
- Caroline Springs Civic Centre / Library
- Parkwood Green Community Centre
- Moreton Homestead
3 / Open Space – tree maintenance (CityWide) / $577,000 / Includes a provisional sum of $65,000 forstump grinding, rural roadside pruning/removals and emergency works.
4 / Shire Presentation / $100,000
$200,000 / Materials and plants utilised by Council’s in house Open Space Improvement Team.
Undertaking detailed design for future streetscape improvements, including the Courthouse Plaza in Melton.
5 / Tree Planting Program / $400,000 / New tree plantings within parks and road reserves.
6 / Line marking / $140,000 / Addresses the renewal of line marking of roads and car parks across the City
7 / Irrigation System Renewal / $200,000 / Replacement/New Irrigation systems
8 / Playground Upgrade Program / $150,000 / Replacement / New / Renewal of playgrounds and playspaces
9 / Soft fall/Soft path Renewal Program / $100,000 / Repair / Renewal / New soft path’s / softfall areas (including rubber)
10 / Park Furniture Replacement Program / $100,000 / (Replacement/New park furniture)
11 / Roadside litter collection / $100,000 / Disposal costs for dumped roadside litter & Street Litter bins.
12 / Street litter collection / $963,000 / Collection of waste & recycling from bins at public places (eg shopping districts and sports grounds) – includes collection of wind-blown litter in roadsides through the use of Rough Terrain Vehicles (RTV) and the removal of illegally dumped rubbish from Rural & Urban roadsides utilising large tipper with crane & bobcat.
13 / Street and footpath sweeping / $972,000 / Sweeping of urban streets, Arterial roads, public car parks and footpaths in commercial precincts.
Total $8,335,000
In addition Council undertakes a capital works program, some of which could be categorised as beautification works. In the last 2 years Council has undertaken:
- Palmerston Street bus interchange works
- Tree planting as part of the Gourlay Road duplication works
- Undergrounding of powerlines in McKenzie Street as part of the construction of the new Melton Library
- Street tree plantings at various locations including: Yuille Street, Centenary Avenue, High Street, Henry Street and Unitt Street.
In addition to the contracted open space maintenance Council has in place an in-house Open Space Improvement Team. This comprises a team of five (5) who are charged with undertaking targeted landscape improvements in key locations. Recent works including landscaping at: Courthouse Plaza, High Street / Melton Highway, Burnside Heights Recreation Reserve, Springside Recreation Reserve and Alexandra Street. The team have access to Council owned plant to enable them to undertake the landscape improvement works. A long term plan for landscape improvement is being developed to be incorporated into Council’s 5 year works program.