{"id":9354,"date":"2023-11-30T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestar.test\/2023\/11\/30\/takeover-final\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:10:35","slug":"takeover-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/blog\/takeover-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeover final"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t\t\tTuesday, May 21st, 2013<\/span> | Posted by Matt Dunn<\/a><\/span> \t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Job security: assistant manager Lynn Watt and groundsman Kevin Teasdale are current employees at the Long Jetty Caravan Park in Port Welshpool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council will take over the management of Yanakie\u2019s and Port Welshpool\u2019s caravan parks in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n

Council has voted to end the expression of interest process for the leasing of the two parks and to take over their management.<\/p>\n

Council\u2019s property manager Chris Van Der Ark said taking on the parks was a new direction for council.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe opportunity arose to review services and to take on the management role of the two parks. Council used to manage them and the opportunity only comes up every 21 years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently the other Crown land parks in South Gippsland, Korumburra and Waratah Bay, are not under council management and Korumburra has just been re-leased for 21 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Van Der Ark said while council has some of the necessary skills and operational tools to run the parks, a caretaker would be employed to run them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping for a caretaker model. We will look to employ casuals in the peak seasons to help with the increased workloads,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be using local people for maintenance, ground keeping and services. It will pretty much be the same as what exists, except the manager will be a council employee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council is aware of some political matters at each of the parks, including the State Government\u2019s Improving Equity of Access policy, which relates to camping on Crown land.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some matters that should be looked into, for example, the policy dictates that people aren\u2019t supposed to live in caravan parks on Crown land and access to them should be provided to everyone,\u201d Ms Van Der Ark said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of annuals at each park. We have to look at that as custodians of the land and make sure we are complying with policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yanakie Caravan Park will be taken over in September and Long Jetty in November. Ms Van Der Ark sees no reason for the parks to be closed at any stage during the transition process.<\/p>\n

\u201cCouncil is in talks with the existing leaseholders to design a transition program and to discuss whether or not council will purchase existing cabins. So far, they have been very amicable conversations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Extensive work has been carried out on future development and management options for these parks.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, there are no major changes allowed for in the budget. We are aware of important works that could be attended to in the future, but we are yet to determine a development plan,\u201d Ms Van Der Ark said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur research has given us an understanding of what is required for them to eventually run at optimum levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment we don\u2019t know what the profits are, as we don\u2019t have access to the figures but we are pretty confident they make a profit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done some modelling and planning for the longer term, including staff and maintenance and we think they will run self sufficiently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no plans to sell the land, as it is Crown land so it is impossible. We are committee of management, not the owners, so the decision to sell cannot be made by council. It hadn\u2019t even entered our heads.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 | Posted by Matt Dunn Takeover final Job security: assistant manager Lynn Watt and groundsman Kevin Teasdale are current employees at the Long Jetty Caravan Park in Port Welshpool. SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council will take over the management of Yanakie\u2019s and Port Welshpool\u2019s caravan parks in the second half of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}