Old funeral business building to be transformed in Gympie’s new disaster co-ordination centre
The Gympie CBD site will be extensively renovated to become the region’s dedicated disaster management co-ordination centre.
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Gympie Regional Council will spend at least $500,000 turning what was once a funeral business into its new disaster co-ordination centre.
The building between the Gympie Library and Civic Centre, at 24 Mellor St, is used for community services, but turning it into the city’s dedicated disaster management co-ordination centre means it will be right beside the city’s disaster evacuation centre (the Civic Centre).
The council has just been granted the $500,000 through the Commonwealth and Queensland Government’s $19 million Queensland Resilience and Risk Reduction Fund.
“While the project details are still being finalised, some of the works are expected to include structural improvements, such a reconfiguration of the internal walls to make the space more functional during a disaster, as well as technological improvements to support a variety of new technologies,” a council spokesman said on Thursday.
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“Moving the disaster management coordination centre to the Mellor Street location means that it will be closer to the Civic Centre, which is a disaster evacuation centre.”
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