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STIRLING council will spend $200,000 introducing e-voting to its chamber. Staff have previously manually counted “ayes” and “nays” at council meetings. Once installed the system will allow councillors to press a button so their vote is automatically inserted into the minutes. As all e-voting systems come with microphones, the existing 11-year-old equipment will be redundant. Staff say they’d “exceeded their effective useful operating life and are due for replacement either way”. They’d budgeted $125,000 to upgrade the chamber’s audio visual equipment, so an extra $75,000 has to be found for the 2016/17 budget.

ONE of the Voice’s street art favourites, Mel McVee, led 100 kids and many other volunteers to paint Kings Square on the weekend. It was a project by Artsource and brushes were handed out to anyone who was willing to splash a bit of paint around.  The weekend’s all-in paint project launches about $2million of public art that’ll be rolled out across the Perth city link development area, paid by the per cent for public art scheme which set aside one per cent of the total cost for art.

TWO homes on Lonsdale Street, Yokine, were damaged last Saturday after a woman allegedly tried to escape police. Police allege they tried to stop the woman’s Ford Falcon in Balga, but she drove off, crashing into a Volkswagen, propelling it into the front wall of a house. The woman then allegedly crashed into a neighbouring house, damaging a wall, letterbox, roller door and fence. The woman was arrested at the scene and was conveyed to hospital.