Palmwoods
District News

June 10,
1999

Page 3

COUNCIL BRIEFS
WITH CR GEOFF LITTLER

The Weather Improves

I TAKE this opportunity to thank residents for their patience over the last month when their roads flooded and fell to pieces due to the excessive rains.

The road gangs have worked overtime to repair the damage and I certainly appreciate and thank them for their effort.

Brickbats and Bouquets

DURING Local Government week I spent a very interesting hour with Palmwoods State School, Year 7 students. Both brickbats and bouquets were received but I must say the brickbats were of a constructive nature. Thank you Year 7.

Here are some of the comments given to me:

• At the clock tower where the buses stop to let all the high school get dropped off the red dirt is turned up. When people walk there after rain, even before rain, their feet get all muddy and it is really hard to get off, plus it stains. I think someone should do something about it like putting grass or gravel there;

• When it rains Kolora Park gets flooded and all the dirt from the bank gets erodedand the pond gets filthy from the dirt. I think you should put an erosion net on the bank so it won't get as eroded as it does now;

• I would just like to thank you for all the work you and the council have done for the Palmwoods neighbourhood. Just to name a few being the mobile library and the maintenance of spare land;

• The Palmwoods Duck Pond Forest Walks are very disgraceful and what’s more the small creeks are full of stagnant water and sand. It smells like sewerage and looks terrible and in one part of the walk there is disgusting water over the path;

• I think the mobile library is fantastic. Its great for the young and the elderly.

Draft Planning Scheme

MAROOCHY Shire Council’s draft new Planning Scheme has State Government approval and will then go on public display on June 15 .

The plan is the size of a small encyclopaedia and may be cumbersome to read. However there is an interactive CD Rom version for those who wish to take advantage of modern technology.

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