Monday 23 April.
Moonee Valley friendly place to do business.
Results from a survey of Moonee Valley businesses show respondents to be generally happy doing business in the City they consider friendly, safe, clean and diverse.
Mayor Cr Ben Opie said the survey, which was conducted to determine the business community’s satisfaction with Council’s services and facilities, also showed that respondents were pleased with some of its business-related programs.
“Results from that survey were recently released, and as reported previously by Council, respondents gave us a 6.76 out of 10 rating for our overall performance. This was one of the highest scores that the research company has ever seen in similar surveys they’ve performed for other metropolitan councils,” Cr Opie said.
Like residents in [the community] survey, businesses described Moonee Valley as friendly, clean and diverse with a strong sense of community and safety. (!!??)
Cr Opie said that businesses selected these words to describe the City.
“It was interesting that the businesses chose exactly the same words as residents in expressing how they felt about Moonee Valley,” Cr Opie said.
You'd have to reckon that former Australian cricketer turned developer Craig McDermott, his company Maxen Developments and his co-developers Phoenix Financial Group would be at the top of that survey list of happy campers doing business in Moonee Valley and would now be handing out lion and elephant stamps to the council. (See previous post.)
After all MVCC has sat on its collective "friendly, safe, clean and diverse" hands while the Brickmakers Arms has remained an unsafe blot on the landscape for years, (to quote Mayor Ben - Cr Opie said the owners had failed to safely maintain the building, which led to ‘’heavy vandalism’’ and squatters living inside ... they just ignored us ...) and by the look of things, for many more years to come.
