Canberra Votes

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GHD Pty Ltd has was engaged by the ACT Government to undertake the community consultation process on the future use of eight former school sites.
The eight former school sites (now termed “community sites”) are Cook, Weston Creek, Melrose (Chifley), Village Creek (Kambah), North Curtin, Holt, Mount Neighbour (Kambah) and Rivett.
The Belconnen Community Council asked GHD [...]

The July GCC meeting was held on Wednesday 9 July.
Unfortunately the booked guest speaker, Peter Martin (Economics Reporter for the Canberra Times) was unable to make the meeting due to unforeseen work commitments.
The meeting covered:

the surprise announcement by the Stanhope government that Light Rail had been given priority as an infrastructure project. 
details of the submission [...]

The community group - “Canberrans for Power station Relocation Inc” (CPR) held a protest outside the ACT Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, 25 June 2008.
The protest was organized to occur opposite the fountain in Civic Square (London Circuit) outside the public entrance to the Legislative Assembly at midday.
Prior to the protest the group put rally signs [...]

The June Gungahlin Community Council meeting was held on Wednesday 11th June at the Palmerston Community Centre. Video of the full meeting is available here, broken into thirteen sections (via a YouTube playlist).
The guest speaker at the meeting was Andrew Barr MLA, Minister for Education and Training, Industrial Relations, Planning, and Tourism, Sport and Recreation. [...]

Curfew4Canberra (C4C) held a public meeting to kick off aircraft noise as an issue in the ACT election with guest speaker Frank Pangallo, Mayor of Queanbeyan, a long-standing advocate for a curfew at Canberra Airport, and recently announced Independent candidate for the electorate of Molonglo.
It appears that the C4C group will be delivering the only [...]

At the Public Meeting of the Weston Creek Community Council on 04 June 2008 - ACTPLA presented their revised plans for North Weston and Molonglo.
In part A of the meeting ACTPLA presented the revised plans.

 
In part B of the meeting the WCCC collected and collated community input based on what had been presented by ACTPLA [...]

On 25 May 2008 Jenni and Peter Farrell held an Open day at the Historic Caretakers Cottage on Cotter Road in the the former Stromlo Forest. The Caretakers Cottage was built in 1926 for the then Manager of the Western Creek Sewerage Works.
It was hidden from the road by pine forest for much [...]

A briefing session was held by ActewAGL and Technical Real Estate at the Town Centre Sports Club (Vikings Club), Corner Rowland Rees Crescent and Athlon Drive, Greenway on Saturday 17 May from 10.00am to 3.00pm.
The session was advertised as an opportunity for those who were unable to attend the special meeting of the Tuggeranong Community [...]

The May Gungahlin Community Council meeting was held on Wednesday 14 May at the Palmerston Community Centre.
In first part of the meeting

Introduction
An update was given on Council activities and impact of the 2008 ACT Budget.
CHC Affordable Housing  representatives spoke and to canvass community input into their plans to expand the supply of affordable housing in Gungahlin for [...]