Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Northern Metropolitan Region

Mr ONDARCHIE (Northern Metropolitan) (12:18): (1666) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Education. This year Greenvale Secondary College welcomed new students to year 7 under the leadership of principal Mark Natoli, an educator with over a decade worth of experience, most recently as principal of John Fawkner College in Melbourne’s north. The minister might be aware that I have raised issues around Greenvale Secondary College, particularly the school crossing requirement over Mickleham Road. The community has raised with me the lack of school access to the Greenvale Recreation Centre for the new year 7 students and the unplanned fees that the centre will be charging the school if they need to use this facility. As the school is new and does not have a performing arts centre or a physical education building, the Department of Education and Training did a deal through the Victorian School Building Authority to use that facility at no charge. Well, the school have now been advised that council wants to charge them $12 000 a year. So the question for the minister is: will you direct the department and the VSBA to do the deal with the council so they can use this facility at no charge?