We received the following Power Point presentation from Cr. Penhalluriack. We’ve put it up in the public interest as both an information tool and as a guide to the issues which the proposed ‘agreement’ does not cover, acknowledge, or take into account.
This was presented to Councillors – it appears that it may have fallen on deaf ears!
Please download the full file FROM HERE.
It is a large file and may take a little while to download, so please be patient:-)
Glen Eira Debates 
April 22, 2011 at 5:52 PM
It’s really beyond comprehension how, after reading what Penhalluriack has prepared, that anyone would have any qualms about knocking back the C60 and the proposed centre of the racecourse issues. If these 4 councillors accept the officers’ recommendations then they are beyond hope. Not only will residents lose out on millions and millions of dollars in levies, but the MRC will have been ceded automatic right to do whatever it wants, and forever. Nobody could be that stupid, not even Pilling, Lipshutz, Esakoff and her mate. That leads into other very serious questions as to why these people seem hell bent on giving away residents’ amenities for nothing. In sheer economic terms it just doesn’t add up. There’s a mountain of things that we don’t know, but should know. At the very least it shows exceedingly poor management skills and certainly no negotiating skills. At worst it again brings into focus vested interests and who is in on all this. There is definitely something very, very rotten at the heart of this issue and at the core of the council.
April 22, 2011 at 10:01 PM
Penhalluriack’s presentation provides solutions as well as raises issues. This is far more than the planning department and councillors have ever done. He and Forge are the only ones that have really done their homework and worked their butts off for residents. The same can’t be said for the rest of the gang.
April 22, 2011 at 10:08 PM
Why do people keep lavishing praise on Forge? She is merely a puppet for others – what independent thought has she ever contributed??
April 22, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Isn’t it amazing how Penhalluriack was up in arms about Council’s mulch facility being a public health hazard, yet remained silent over the service station site which he has acknowledges here is “contaminated”. Not ideal for a site that abuts residential properties is it. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the service station owners supported him in his election campaign.
Oh and no more rubbish about the MRC driving away Golden Days Radio please. Some of us know the truth.
April 22, 2011 at 10:25 PM
Wikipedia has a quite different version of events. One sentence should be enough -“In 2009, following a request from the MRC (Melbourne Racing Club), the station moved into new premises at 1236 Glen Huntly Road Glen Huntly 3163” Request – a very, very very polite term!
April 22, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Wikipedia as your source! This is the same site that once described David Beckham as an 18th century chinese goal-keeper!
April 23, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Kinda funny that you ignore all the facts and stats and pick on something that is featherweight. Come on Golden Days, you can do heaps and heaps better. Don’t forget though that the MRC did rebuild the stand and kicked the radio out. That’s community spirit all right – they couldn’t even find a proper spot for them after redevelopment and now way were they going to contribute to the $300,000 that the radio station had to scrape and scrounge for in order to survive elsewhere. Real community spirit I call that. Wouldn’t have hurt them to cough up with some dough either.
April 23, 2011 at 10:31 AM
There are a couple of things that haven’t been mentioned here and I think they’re really important. I’ve read the proposed agreement between Council and the MRC and then gone back to the original motion passed by Council which was supposedly to set out the Glen Eira position in any negotiations. Comparing the two is like looking at chalk and cheese I’m afraid. There is hardly anything in the agreement that really meets the conditions ratified by the resolution. Access is still limited; no time table for removal of training; Council will be paying for half of the fence removals and even this has a time line of up to 5 years; then there’s the bit about the tunnel. All in all it does read like a failure. What concerns me most though is that all major decisions are left in the hands of the MRC. They’re the ones who will decide if damage is done to tracks and areas and then they have been given the power to say ‘no go’. There’s also nothing there that can bind them to keep their word. What happens if they don’t? Residents really have not gained much. The ball is still very firmly in the MRC hands and council’s negotiators have completely forgotten about the resolution that they were to work under.
April 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Ex-Insider
Word from inside has it that Esakoff needs the C60 and the Centre to go through before Lipshutz goes on leave.
Esakoff does not want to deal with Penhallurack, without Lipshutz nearby.
All rushed through because our mayor can’t do the job, and Lipshutz wants to go away. She needs to get out of the chair and let Hyams in.
Mind you, I hear it is Hyams that is telling Esakoff to ignore the seven points in Penhalluracks original motion passed by Council.
(And by the way, C60 3 votes to 1 and the centre, unanimous in favour.)
April 23, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Penhalluriack’s email stated that there’d only been one meeting of councillors about the C60. Pathetic, woeful, and any other terms you want to chuck at these useless bunch of incompetents. When there’s something as significant as this, then they should be meeting every bloody week about it and asking for more and more info.
The resolution also said that councillors were to be kept informed and uptodate about the pathetic negotiations. Doesn’t look like that’s happened either. What a sorry sorry state of affairs when the gang of five including Newton see themselves as lord and master and exclude everyone else. Exactly what the inspector was complaining about. Yup, governance at Glen Eira will go down in history as both abysmal and non existent. Esakoff will be the first to get her head chopped off cos she’s the mayor and its her responsibility to pass on information to the rest. If Newton doesn’t give it to her, then she isn’t performing her role. But she’d never speak out whilst Lipshutz is pulling all the strings behind her. they’re all a bunch of useless creatures.