By Laura Michell
Whittlesea SES volunteers will be able to keep focus on helping the community after receiving $20,000 from Whittlesea council.
The council’s 2018-19 budget, which was adopted earlier this month, includes funding for the SES to help it buy equipment and keep the organisation running smoothly.
The funding comes a year after the council decided to stop offering financial support for the SES when the state government took over funding the organisation across the state.
Councillor Emilia Lisa Sterjova, who is an SES volunteer, said she was ecstatic to have the funding re-instated.
Whittlesea SES unit controller Gary Doorbar said the money meant a lot to the volunteers.
“They were having to fundraise, which was taking up a lot of their time,” he said.
