How ratepayers vote in the next few weeks will, we believe, largely be dependent on how ratepayers respond to the following question:
How well has this current council and councillors handled:
- Planning?
- Traffic?
- Open space?
- Consultation?
- Tree retention?
- Rates?
- Advocating for the community?
If there is the view that the above long standing issues have not been improved, and have even become worse, then logically what is required is a total clean out of the standing incumbents and the election of councillors who will dedicate themselves totally to changing the current strategies, policies, and processes of this council.
As we’ve previously stated, half of these incumbents have been there for eons.
Esakoff – since 2003 continuously (apart from being sacked for a few months in 2005)
Magee – since 2008 continuously
Athanasopolous – since 2016
Ann-Marie Cade – since 2018 on a count back win of a few hundred votes
Please remember this:
- All voted for structure plans that included 12 storey height limits
- All voted for the Integrated Transport Policy which suggests reducing parking requirements in activity centres
- All voted for rate increase(s) – the longest serving councillors for up to 6.5% per annum
- All voted for meeting procedures that limit public questions
- All voted for 3000 apartments in East Village
- All accept at various times without question, substandard officer reports
- All voted to become more and more in debt and borrowing $60M plus
These are just some of the major decisions which have had, and will continue to have, a detrimental effect on many, many people in this community. Can we afford another 4 years of more of the same?
October 4, 2020 at 3:13 PM
All these councilors should be replaced. But that being said why do our paid council staff put in such sub standard reports and seem to love over development. Can a new lot of councilors break this habit. Let’s hope so.
October 4, 2020 at 3:28 PM
Reckon all councillors have to do is vote a couple of times that the reports are crap and send them back to be redone. This will improve quality immediately. Show them whose boss is my message.
October 4, 2020 at 10:39 PM
Yes, good point!
October 4, 2020 at 5:28 PM
A great reminder about what these Councillors really stand for and it is not for residents.
October 4, 2020 at 6:42 PM
Cade is a dead loss. Doesn’t say anything and when she does she reads from the officer’s report. Hyams little puppet.
October 4, 2020 at 10:41 PM
Yes, without a doubt the current councillors have presided over many decisions that are NOT in the best interests of ratepayers and residents. Definitely time for change in Glen Eira!
October 4, 2020 at 10:43 PM
I’m starting to feel sorry for the council officers having to put up with this lots a dummies.
October 5, 2020 at 1:04 PM
Magee’s answer to the removal of 99 trees to move a car park a few metres sideways, at Centenary Park was “in all my years as a councillor I never seen anyone in there” …. the 99 trees were smashed down and it’s now a car park.
These 99 trees were a community planting from the 1970’s tall and healthy and home to nesting Tawny Frogmouths.
This sums up Magees environmental qualifications. It will be car parking, tar and cement over trees any day of the week.
Bailey Reserve suffered a similar loss with Magees consent as well.
The man is an unrepentant eco-vandal of the first order.