June 2013

Events

Star FM Trivia Night is on again! The theme this year is ‘TV’. The Trivia Night will be held on Saturday July 6, Portland Hall from 6pm. Tickets are $20 and available from Star FM. Fingal Football Club Goes Pink, Saturday July 13. Football, raffles, fun! Juniors playing at 10am followed by the reserves and the marquee match. Join the Fingal Football Club raising money for breast cancer research. All welcome at Fingal Football Ground. Call 0409 308 824 for further information. Contact Council to include your event in next month’s newsletter! A Calendar of Events is also available on Council’s website.

Break O’Day Council

PO Box 21

St Helens TAS 7216

Georges Bay Esplanade St Helens

Phone 6376 7900

www.bodc.tas.gov.au

admin@bodc.tas.gov.au

After Hours and Emergency Numbers

Dog Control 0438 761 199

Council 6398 2281

Newsletter

Nominations have opened - Velvet Worm Award 2013

Calling for nominations for champions of our local environment for the Break O’Day Community Velvet Worm Award 2013.

Details are available on the Council website under Development/Natural Resources Management.

Nominations must be received by Council by Friday July 11, 2013.

REMEMBER — PUT YOUR BINS OUT IN THE LAST

WEEK OF JUNE

As detailed in the May newsletter, waste collection will operate in the last week

of June (June 24 to 27).

Please put your bins out for collection on the usual day

for your area.

Stormwater upgrade works progressing in St Helens

Works to improve stormwater management along Groom Street and Medea Cove Esplanade are well under way.

Subject to weather conditions, this project is on track to be completed in the next four (4) weeks.

Council asks that all motorists continue to follow traffic directions and signage for the duration of the project. The traffic plan outlining the effect on the movement of traffic during the works is available on the Council website.

The new footpath at Petrel Place, Stieglitz has been completed (above), as has the new toilet block at Beauty Bay, St Helens (below).

Next Council Meeting

Will be held at the Council Chambers

Georges Bay Esplanade,

St Helens

Monday July 15, 2013

at 10.00am

Minutes from Council meetings can be found on the Council website. The minutes from the May meeting are now available for viewing.

Members of the public are welcome to attend Council meetings.

Maintenance work done at Fingal Anglican Cemetery

Before

As shown in these photos, the Fingal Anglican cemetery has recently received some special attention.

This Cemetery is not Council owned or maintained but the Town Maintenance Team (Jason, Brett, Mark and Stephen ) have made a great effort in trying to bring it back into shape.

After

Binalong Bay Waste Transfer Station to close

As part of Council’s ongoing review of waste management in the municipality, Council has determined that the Binalong Bay Waste Transfer Station be closed from 30 June 2013.

In making this decision, Council noted factors including:

Costs associated with leasing, staffing and maintaining the site and meeting legislative obligations for maintenance, reporting and rehabilitation of a transfer station;

The service is being provided to a relatively small segment of the Break O’Day community;

An alternative service is available at St Helens Waste Transfer Station providing a similar level of accessibility as experienced by other members of the Break O’Day community.

Council understands that this will have an impact on residents that currently utilise the site and apologises for any inconvenience. Council has, and will, consider options to reduce the impact, such as possible occasional fee free days for green waste at other sites.

Council does wish to remind everyone in the Break O’Day area, that illegal

and inappropriate dumping of green waste (and other waste) can have

significant repercussions. One example is that exotic and garden plants can

establish in bush areas and become serious weed problems, not just to the

environment but to productive rural land. This can be very costly to manage

or control and prevention is the best option.

SBS COVERAGE AFTER DIGITAL UPGRADE

In the April Newsletter of this year Council provided information to residents to assist those who were still unable to receive digital SBS after Tasmania changed from analogue to digital broadcasting on 9 April, 2013. The following instructions are provided to check if the SBS reception is working:

Log on to www.digitalready.gov.au and click on “Reception”, this will direct you to some options of how you can check to see whether it is a simple fix – like a new antenna or if you are in an area where reception is either poor or not accessible – click on mySwitch . If the mySwitch Coverage Summary indicates that you have “No Coverage” or “No Transmitter” available in your broadcast licence area then you may be eligible to apply for out-of-area access for the commercial services on VAST.

If after following the above steps you are still unable to receive SBS transmission, could you please send an email to Council using the email address admin@bodc.tas.gov.au or provide a written submission to PO Box 21, St Helens, providing your name and address and the steps that you have taken to try and access SBS. If Council receives enough feedback from people who are unable to access SBS, the information collected will be used to seek external funding to install

another SBS tower to improve the coverage.

Televisions, computers and computer products collected free of charge by City Mission! Do you have a TV, computer, printer, scanner or similar that has reached the end of its life that you need to get rid of? Drop it off at a Council waste transfer station in Scamander, St Helens, St Marys or Fingal and City Mission will collect it free of charge for recycling. Please see your waste collection calendar for opening days and times.