Jetty hopes not sunk

SOUTH Gippsland Shire councillors will hold a public meeting in the new year to discuss the future of the Long Jetty at Port Welshpool.

Council was hoping the jetty would receive funding from the Federal Government in the most recent round of the National Stronger Regions Fund.

But the jetty restoration project missed out on $4.7 million and will continue to crumble.

Now Coastal-Promontory Ward councillors Jeanette Harding, Mohya Davies and Kieran Kennedy will organise a meeting for January.

“We feel that we have to go on with the fight,” Cr Harding told last Wednesday’s meeting of council.

“If you go down there on a weekend on a sunny day, there will be people from the Latrobe Valley and Wellington shires, as well as local people at Port Welshpool.

“We need to try to bring the Federal Government in line with the rest of the levels of government.”

Council has allocated $1 million towards the jetty project and the State Government has allocated $5 million. The State Government is pledging to retain the $5 million for the jetty for now.

Cr Harding also flagged the possibility of council increasing its contribution to fixing the jetty and Cr Mohya Davies suggested crowdfunding could be an option.

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