12.10.2024 CP00862 - Coondoo St Garden Beds (24)

With Mareeba Shire Council receiving another $200,000 in grant money, after the $150,000 they said they had back in May 2022 (KTIMP) 'disappeared', we are documenting the current poor state of these garden beds so we can see EXACTLY what they do with this money.
These garden beds are some of the first the 100,000's of visitors to Kuranda see upon their arrival in Kuranda and look at them.
This bed used to contain a large 'Welcome to Kuranda' timber sign - until it fell apart, never to be replaced...
Each morning a Council employee needs to be responsible for going around and tidying up our garden beds - removing the 'dead wood' and the rubbish that seems to lie around for weeks before being cleared up and taken away.
As you can see, the bed itself is like all the others - full of fish ferns, weeds or nothing, with rather old, large trees/plants in the majority of them that need to be dug out and replaced, unmulched for years in many cases...
A Deed of Agreement with Queensland Government is being developed apparently. Works to commence once the agreement is signed.