A very brief report on tonight’s marathon council meeting. Full coverage in the next few days.
- Approximately 20 residents marched into the meeting after it started and stood there for several minutes holding placards about saving the Caulfield Park trees. Hyams couldn’t resist making a supercilious comment.
- Lobo was the ‘conservatives’ target on the first item. Delahunty was the second target given her comments regarding Southwick’s involvement with the Elsternwick Plaza lease and the problems with VicRoads
- More backsliding and more reports requesting more ‘information’ on audio/webcasting of council meetings
- The sporting ground allocation policy deferred until next meeting. Talk of lack of transparency and Lobo laid the blame at the feet of one club – presumably Ajax.
- Public questions went largely unanswered and on one point when challenged by Delahunty, Pilling continued his inauspicious debut as Mayor by fluffing the answer and having to be corrected by Hyams. Burke of course, rapidly interceded.
- All in all a brain-numbing talk-fest that achieved practically nothing. On the Caulfield park trees the only concession was that the 2 elms would remain and that 13 would be ‘relocated’. We express deep concern for the survival chances of these 13 trees going on past record.
Glen Eira Debates 
November 27, 2013 at 9:28 AM
These fools disrupted a lawfully constituted Council Meeting. They should have been charged and prosecuted.They have no respect.
November 27, 2013 at 3:22 PM
Damn right!!!! Instead of just accepting the fob off letter, these fools obviously think they have a right to attend an open Council Meeting to express their opinion in person. This is Glen Eira!!!!!! Once you cast your vote that’s it – for the next four years you should just accept every decision and it’s an affrontary to think otherwise
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November 27, 2013 at 7:17 PM
I wouldn’t even like to bet on the survival chances of the two elms. Gardener’s Road redevelopment is the best example of poor tree preservation that just happened to die after their roots were shredded to pieces. No surprises if this “accidentally” happens with the elms in Caulfield Park.
November 27, 2013 at 8:45 PM
I’m no horticulturalist – just your average backyard gardener – but I do know I would not be looking at regrassing ovals and planting trees in January.
Aside from waiting till after the cricket season, seems to me it’s better to wait until weather is likely to nurture the trees (cooler, greater possibility of rain).