Glen Eira Council has published a new Media Release entitled “Issues for the City and the State Election”. Highlighted are such issues as: level crossings, inadequate State funding for childcare/kindergartens and proposed pruning of street trees near power lines. Significantly, the word PLANNING, appears only once – almost as a throwaway in the penultimate paragraph. The Caufield Racecourse also only garners a mention here.
We highlight this to readers since this ‘call to arms’ stands in stark contrast to the VLGA vision of the significant issues facing the electorate. Their emphases is almost exclusively on planning and the need to recognise the role of the community in determining planning outcomes. Why are the respective ‘visions’ so vastly different? What does this say about Glen Eira’s approach to planning and community consultation? But of course, Glen Eira has now removed itself from the VLGA after only one short year! We’ve uploaded the VLGA document here
Glen Eira Debates 
November 11, 2010 at 11:12 PM
No surprises here. The same blah, blah, blah. Important stuff that ratepayers really care about is pushed under the carpet. The rest is all bluff and bluster – more ‘advocacy’ and that’s it. we’re being ‘advocated’ to kingdom come by this lot. How about actually doing something for a change? Building a few kindas would be a great start.
November 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM
One paragraph from the vlga document stands out like a beacon – “It’s time to take stock, to reflect and to have an open public debate about how local liveability is affected,
and how local governments and communities can be involved in change. In the end, the role of local governments is to inform, to enable and to empower the public to par&cipate”.
Empowering communities is not something that this council has a great track record on. it doesn’t matter who wins this election since change can only happen in glen eira once there is change of personnel.