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Annual Report
Darebin Creek Managment Committee's Annual Report is now available online. The report highlights the various achievements made by the Committee and staff through out the 2007/08 financial year. Please click the link below to download the Annual Report or contact DCMC at info@dcmc.org.au if you would like discuss anything in the report.
2008 Annual Report will be available shortly.
Nestled
in the Darebin Parklands, the Darebin
Creek Management
Committee (DCMC) comprises five staff
members and operates from the Darebin
Creek Enviroment Centre, Alphington.
Most of the time the Darebin Parklands
it is a peaceful place with dog-walkers,
bike-riders and local residents walking
along the shared trail. Red-rumped
parrots feed on the ground and an
indigenous garden surrounding the
office serves
as an example of how local species
can be used in home gardens. However,
the Parklands sometimes becomes a
hive of activity with hundreds of
school
children seen playing sports in
the park grounds or being taken on
an
excursion with the Ranger
or Waterwatch
Officer.
 The DCMC was formed in 2001 by amalgamating
the Darebin Creek Co-ordinating Committee
(est.1984) and the Darebin Parklands
Committee of Management (est.1978).
The DCMC consists of 11 members who
represent the four city councils,
Banyule, Darebin, Whittlesea, Yarra
and La Trobe
University. The parklands division
manage, maintain, educate and revegetate
the Darebin Parklands, whilst the
co-ordination division plan, advise,
liaise, and
comment on a range of issues that
effect the creek and its linear parklands.
The Committee has been established
to ensure the preservation, restoration,
environmental protection, and ecologically
sensitive development and maintenance
of the Darebin Creek Linear Park. As
a result we work closely with council
on planning issues, Bush crew works,
creek maintenance, revegetation and
related issues.
The Darebin Creek Management Committee
Inc. has the authority to undertake
the following tasks:
- Manage Creek Parklands to ensure
environmentally sensitive maintenance
and development,
established regenerated indigenous
vegetation, restore the landscape on
public land along the Creek valley
(while recognising the historic significance
of designated individual exotic plants)
- Comment on Land Use Planning issues
along the Darebin Creek, and Implement
the Lower and Middle Darebin Creek
Concept Plans
- Raise Funds from member body contributions,
grants, donations, membership fees
and other resources
- Encourage Community Involvement, work
with existing and future community
groups, and educate the community about
environmental issues
- Co-operate with the community, and
local, state and federal Government
Authorities in protecting and enhancing
the Darebin Creek Linear Park
Darebin Creek Managment Committee is an Incorporated association and is governed by a Statement of Purposes and a Constitution. This document can be downloaded here:
DCMC Constitution Download
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