Greenline underway, coffee footpaths, and demerger cost revealed

Coming up today on the Local Government News Roundup:

• Work commences on Melbourne’s transformational Greenline Project
• A Melbourne council calls on the government to step up its maintenance and graffiti removal works
• A youth hub facility to be demolished due to structural defects
• The trial that may have us walking on coffee grounds
• The cost of a Bayside Council demerger revealed
• A NSW Council debating the merits of a rate freeze
• The launch of a unique global event tackling toxicity and incivility in public life
• And another UK council sounds warning bells about its finance

Plus more news from across the world of local government in Australia and beyond.

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