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Returns trips READ all about it. The recent chilly winter weeks have not stopped dedicated Frankston Library staff manning a Express Service desk at Frankston station early on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Busy train commuters who are library members can return or borrow books at the pop-up desk instead of visiting a Frankston library during the week. Frankston Library Express operates on Tuesday and Thursday from 6.30-8.30am from the portable library kiosk during many weeks of the year.

Many happy returns: Mandeep Grewal (Jess) borrows a book from libraries staffer Anne Anderson at Frankston station. Picture: Gary Sissons

Councillors ‘face sack’ Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au ALL nine of Frankston’s councillors may be forced to stand down next month due to an administrative blunder. Councillors across Victoria had until 4 July at the latest to sign a revised councillor code of conduct but Frankston councillors’ signatures were not witnessed by council CEO

Dennis Hovenden as stipulated by the Local Government Act. The Times understands the Local Government Investigations and Compliance Inspectorate advised up to eight councils across the state last week that documentation submitted to the inspectorate failed to meet Section 63 of the Act. The revised code of conduct for councillors, introduced by the state government as part of a review of the Local Government Act 1989, discour-

ages councillors from making personal attacks on each other and sets out the process for dealing with bad behaviour. There are no exceptions within the legislation that make allowances for councillors who fail to make a declaration in time. If all councillors at any council are effectively sacked the state government could appoint administrators to run council affairs. Frankston Council and the inspec-

torate refused to comment when asked if any councils, including Frankston, had submitted documents not witnessed by their top executive. Mr Hovenden refused to answer when asked if councillors’ signatures had been witnessed. The inspectorate is understood to have also notified Frankston Council that a councillor did not sign the amended code, according to their records, before the deadline. “The Local Government Inspector-

ate is auditing each council in Victoria for their compliance under the Local Government Act 1989. Council has provided information to the inspectorate to assist, and we now await the outcome of the audit,” Mr Hovenden said in a statement. He declined to provide any further comment. “To do so could potentially undermine the integrity of the Local Government Inspectorate audit process currently underway.” Continued Page 3

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