JUST shy of $10,000 will be spent on a performance review of Vincent city council’s new CEO Len Kosova as he comes up to one year at the helm. Consulting company Portland Broome was chosen as preferred tenderer, despite its $9750 fee being well above competing quotes of $3860, $5000 and $4500. Portland Broome’s previously…

FORMER Vincent CEO John Giorgi has picked up the gig as acting CEO at Claremont town council for an estimated two weeks. Claremont CEO Stephen Goode is on unexpected leave and, in discussion with mayor Jock Barker, he appointed Mr Giorgi to take his place while he’s gone. It’s a highly unusual appointment, with the…

MOST customers to a new North Perth skate shop will arrive by bus, bike or skateboard but Vincent council staff still want to charge its owners $33,000 to make up for not having enough parking spaces. Shane Greenshields wants to open a third Beyond Skate store at 341-345 Charles Street but says “the cash-in-lieu amount…

Bayswater council candidate Sally Palmer sent the Voice this photo of last Saturday’s protest on state parliament steps. About 300 people were ironically silent while protesting a new law—the Australian Border Force Act 2015, which came into force in May. The legislation compels medics and other professionals working in immigration detention centres to remain tight-lipped…

WHAT could you do for Beaufort Street for a thousand bucks? Plenty, the Beaufort Street Network reckons. The network’s made up of local businesses and residents and they’ve reached into their own pockets for the Better Beaufort competition, asking people to come up with ideas to make the street better for humans. While it’s not…

A PLAN to bury powerlines in the Brookman and Moir Street precinct looks likely to be canned due to soaring costs. Originally, residents were told they were up for about $8260. With 53 per cent approving the plan Vincent city council forged ahead. But now, Western Power says residents’ share of the cost is more…

AFTER threes years of failed attempts, Bayswater council may finally get its own men’s shed. Mayor Sylvan Albert says there have been many failed attempts to set up a local workshop but this time it’s different. “The project is now to be driven from the ground up and led by [the community],” Cr Albert says.…

JAMES CHESTERS will soon be stepping off Perth’s tallest building. But fear not that he’s asking for death. He’ll have a harness, helmet and the support of dozens of others who next month abseil down the CBD’s Central Park building for charity. The Voice met with the Mt Hawthorn man on the roof this week…

PROPOSED new laws could see people who don’t even know they’re dual citizens stripped of their Australian citizenship, Perth federal Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan says. While most media attention has been on foreign-born Australians who retain citizenship of countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, Ms MacTiernan notes Australian-born citizens can all too easily be caught…

DOZENS of Perth newsagents are selling up amid fierce competition from major retailers and the rise of online media. Dozens of news/lotto shops are for sale at http://www.reiwa.com.au—more than 40 being sold by brokers at Piedmont Action in Northbridge. The Voice stopped at five newsagancies along Beaufort Street this week and almost all owners were…