Two brand new, modern unisex disabled-access toilets have been installed at the Junee Lawn Cemetery giving the community a more sleek and modern look. This marks one of many improvements coming up for the Shire.
Stephen Targett, Director of Engineering Services for Junee Shire Council said that the upgrades were made to not just comply with modern standards, but to also upgrade the disabled access.
“We’ve had a fairly large demand for better quality toilets out there at the Junee Cemetery and we’ve got a pretty limited budget out there. What we’ve given is pretty good quality based on the budget that we had.”
“Other than what’s been going around in the community between each other, we’ve not had a lot of direct feedback about the toilets. People do appreciate that work has been done.”
“What we have done is our Parks and Gardens Service review survey. As part of that survey, one of the biggest concerns was the Junee Cemetery Toilets, and we’ve delivered them right away, which is good.”
“We are certainly putting funding now into road infrastructure upgrades as well.”
Council said they have put a lot of funding this year into regional road repairs. Targett said, “The upcoming 12 months, we’re going to put a lot of funding into rural road repairs. It will be targeted to support our Rural Shire residents on local roads.
In addition to that, we’ve got a drainage upgrade and home upgrade in Regent Street coming up and Kerb and Gutter replacement in Junee Town along with rectifying some of the storm water drainage issues we’ve got outstanding in Junee Town.
“Next year we are relining the sewer and our reuse system which will be upgraded at the treatment plant. In the parks and gardens space we’re currently working on village playground improvements for DA compliant access there so it’s similar in goal to the cemetery toilets in that way.”
Targett said that shared path improvements and then walking trails in the Shire’s re-erves, go along with that.
“There is still work to be done on the toilets, they’re open to the public now, but there is still a little bit of work to try and improve the aesthetics of them. Some of that will happen before the end of June, but it won’t all happen immediately, because we’re fairly constrained in that budget area at the cemetery, but we will keep improving the quality of the cemeteries in the long term. That’s one of our goals to try and make cemeteries more appealing. With the small budget we’ve got we will improve décor, functionality and that kind of thing.
“We do plan to extend the irrigation at the cemetery, but there have been constraints holding us back from doing that. We’ve been in negotiations around water supply. That will be an upside in the next financial year.”
-Jack Murray
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