	{"id":69302,"date":"2020-06-14T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=69302"},"modified":"2020-06-14T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T02:27:01","slug":"golden-plains-shire-democracy-enters-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/golden-plains-shire-democracy-enters-new-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Plains Shire democracy enters new era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sneak peek inside the just completed council chambers at Golden Plains Civic Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IT wasn\u2019t the grand opening that had been planned for the new council chambers, but the space has been pressed into action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69304\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69304\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/IMG_8920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frosted glass panels celebrate the municipalities that made up Golden Plans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With restrictions on movement and public gatherings, the decision was made to begin using the recently completed Golden Plains Civic Centre for council meetings starting in May.<\/p>\n<p>Originally the plan was to hold a public celebration of the building that\u2019s been designed with the whole Shire in mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to many people in the community that are really looking forward to coming in and seeing space, particularly the historical side of things and what\u2019s been incorporated into it,\u201d said mayor Cr Owen Sharkey.<\/p>\n<p>When members of the public can finally join councillors in the chamber, following the action should be easier with microphones and big screens displaying the agenda items being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Cr Sharkey said with meetings previously split between the old Bannockburn Shire offices and the Linton customer service centre, the new space was a big change.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69305\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69305\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/20200605_105543-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the mayor\u2019s chair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like coming from a one-and-a-half-star hotel into a five-star venue,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge step up for us and it\u2019s going to be quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the technology side we are going from nothing to state-of-the-art facilities. Meeting procedure is going to significantly change for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though the new chamber and associated civic centre is located in Bannockburn, it\u2019s been designed with the history of the Shire in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Frosted glass panels pay homage to the four municipalities that went into creating Golden Plains in the early 1990s &#8211; Bannockburn, Leigh, Buninyong and Grenville shires.<\/p>\n<p>David Greaves, Shire works manager, said incorporating elements of other parts of Golden Plains goes even further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started to design the building, we wanted it to be a building about Golden Plains Shire, not just a representation of one town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The building trusses are a representation of Nimmons Bridge up in the north. It\u2019s been built around trying to honour Nimmons Bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along the north-east wall of the chamber are a series of display cases. The internal ones celebrate the Shire\u2019s people with the current exhibition titled <em>Your Story, My Story<\/em> and the external ones focus on the four municipalities that became Golden Plains.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69306\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69306\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/IMG_8886-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some items on display are part of the Your Story, My Story exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Curator Kim Biggs, Shire arts and cultural advisor, said that the exhibits and artefacts would change over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Your Story, My Story<\/em> was really about council reaching out to the community about telling their stories,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith up to 52 recognised communities throughout Golden Plains Shire it was our call out. What we got was this lovely, warm, very diverse range of objects that really speaks to concept of the sum of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe items that face outwards relate to the civic collection. Two cabinets are on the civic history which is quite rich because it encompasses the four shires. There\u2019s things that speaks to council now and the roles and jobs within council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Plains Civic Centre and associated capital works has been a more than five-year, $10 million, three-stage project, designed by Baumgart Clark Architects and built by S J Weir.<\/p>\n<p>Along with new chambers the space includes customer service centre, public meeting rooms, expanded municipal offices and renovation of the existing office space, public toilets, and an 80-kilowatt solar system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-69307\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/IMG_8925-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sneak peek inside the just completed council chambers at Golden Plains Civic Centre IT wasn\u2019t the grand opening that had been planned for the new council chambers, but the space has been pressed into action. 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