Council Minutes - Section C: Notice of Motion - 9 September 2014
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Notices of Motion tabled at the Ordinary Meeting of Council on 9 September 2014 which was held at City Hall in Little Malop Street, Geelong.
The Corio South Norlane Kindergarten currently operates in a stand-alone building on the old Vermont Avenue campus of Northern Bay College.
Northern Bay College’s preference is to retain and run the Kindergarten in 2015 and beyond. The College has concerns in regard to the capability of the ‘Karin families’, who provide the bulk of children to the Kindergarten, to organise transport to another Kindergarten facility if the Corio South Norlane Kindergarten is closed. These families generally walk everywhere. The Corio Kindergarten is 1.7km from Vermont Avenue and Norlane West Kindergarten is 2 km from Vermont Avenue.
Northern Bay College was formed as a merger of nine schools and one kindergarten as a K-12 school.
Their kindergarten services a minority and highly disadvantaged sector of the community who link into their Family Centre for support and connection, and our Childcare facility which enables them to access English language courses at Diversitat. They also have a significant number of Afghan women with large families moving into our community under the “Women in Danger” program.
To close the kindergarten and disperse these children across a range of different kindergartens in the area will break up the support networks that we have worked hard to establish.
The kindergarten has a full enrolment but is beginning to suffer being on a closed school site.
Corio/Norlane is a very vulnerable community. The Northern Bay College are working hard to provide a ‘wrap around’ service for our community. The Family Services Hub of a Family Centre, Childcare and kindergarten is a critical part of the College’s structure.
Cr Fisher moved, Cr Ansett seconded -
That Council support the Northern Bay Colleges efforts in retaining a Kindergarten Program on its Goldsworthy Campus by writing letters of support to DEECD, current State Minister for Education and the Local State MP.
Carried Unanimously.
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