Jan and I met with CYP again on Wednesday – see attached

A few things to note, some from that meeting and some from subsequent meetings.

• Five trees are still to be planted in our garden bed and 10 or 11 in the ‘chiller area’. Our garden beds trees will be planted by City of PP and the others will be done by City of Melbourne. Neither have any idea of ‘when’.
• Our trees do not have ‘cages’ around them as they will be in a garden bed . They will have wooden stakes
• The area near the chillers is VicRoads land. They have asked City of PP to manage the grass and plantings but VicRoads will manage the trees. City of PP will let a contract for the management of the grass / plants.
• The grassed area on the other side of the tram tracks is City of M.
• We have had some of our dead plants replaced this week and they have had our footpath closed for asphalt remediation work. It is not clear if the remediation has been successful. To me the three days’ work has not delivered any improvement.
• You may have noticed that there are 3 drains in our garden bed. I have been told that the drains have been set too low. Apparently, they should be set higher to allow water to pool in the ‘gravel’ area and that provides water for the plants. Hmm?? So they will be lifting those drains – and yes that might mean stomping over the recently replanted living plants……and then when the trees come my guess is that they will have to remove some plants?!?!?!!?