Town of Bassendean: Agenda

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TOWN OF BASSENDEAN

NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE

ASHFIELD STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Dear Committee Member

A meeting of the Ashfield Stakeholder Advisory Committee will be held in the Council Chamber, 48 Old Perth Road, Bassendean, on Wednesday, 9 September 2009, commencing at 7.00pm.

Mr Bob Jarvis

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

4 September 2009

A G E N D A

1.0 DECLARATION OF OPENING/ANNOUNCEMENT OF VISITORS

2.0 ATTENDANCES, APOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE OF ABSENCE

3.0 PUBLIC QUESTION TIME

4.0 DEPUTATIONS

5.0 CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

5.1 Minutes of the meeting held on 10 June 2009

OFFICER RECOMMENDATION – ITEM 5.1

That the minutes of the Ashfield Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting held on 10 June 2009, be confirmed as a true record.

6.0 ANNOUNCEMENTS BY THE PRESIDING PERSON WITHOUT DISCUSSION

7.0 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

8.0 BUSINESS DEFERRED FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

9.0 REPORTS

9.1 Ashfield Precinct Plan

At the last meeting, the Committee was informed that the consultation process had been completed and that GHD Planning Consultants were in the process of preparing a Report on Submissions, which will identify all of the submissions that have been received, including a response to the submission, and where it is proposed to change the Plan as a result of the submission.

Following this process, the Report on Submissions and recommendations for changes to the advertised plan will then be submitted to the two Councils and the Western Australian Planning Commission for endorsement.

Mr Reed, Manager Development Services, informs that the final version of the Ashfield Precinct Plan Report has now proceeded through the Officers’ Project Control Group of the Department for Planning and is to be signed off by the Department imminently.

The Report is expected to be referred to both the City of Bayswater and Town of Bassendean during September for adoption and released to the public on adoption.

Mr Reed confirmed that Department for Education and Training have committed to retaining Cyril Jackson Senior Campus site for future educational needs. Whether the concepts of an agglomerated campus delivering K-12 education services will be a feature of the Report has not been substantiated.

OFFICER RECOMMENDATION – ITEM 9.1

That the report on the Ashfield Precinct Plan be received.

9.2 Ashfield CAN

The Ashfield Community Action Network (Ashfield CAN) has completed an application for incorporation and advertised intent to proceed to process the application.

The draft Constitution includes the following Objectives:

To encourage the well being, education, life outlook and personal development of individuals and community groups that are within or identify with, the community of Ashfield.
To support and promote activities within or relating to the local community of Ashfield
To enhance, protect and promote the natural environment within the suburb of Ashfield
To enhance, protect and promote the built environment within the suburb of Ashfield.
To raise funds for the purpose of promoting any of the foregoing objects.

The inaugural Ashfield CAN executive office bearers are:

Bill Busby - Inaugural President

Lucy Bromell – Secretary

Darryl Bonny - Treasurer

Membership fees have been set at $2.

The Ashfield CAN has now conducted two events and hosted a series of energy efficiency workshops.

A program of activity has been set for the coming period and includes:

The development of a social walking group/gathering for residents with dogs titled: “A Dogs Breakfast” with the first staging on Sunday 27 September at 9.30am on Ashfield Flats; and
Support for a series of personal development workshops on “Playing with patterns on cloth” and “Unlock the creative within”.

Ashfield CAN is continuing to be formalized and will continue to require officer logistical support from the Town for the foreseeable future. Never the less the group has made significant progress in developing an administration from scratch. Their greatest challenge is to become a relevant community development portal for residents.

The CAN is currently in the process of synthesising the Ashfield Community Action Plan to establish a strategic plan of action with short term and long term activities toward determined strategies as the means to this end.

Committee is asked to determine whether to recommend to Council the appointment of a Councillor to the Ashfield CAN.

OFFICER RECOMMENDATION – ITEM 9.2

That:

1. The Committee recommends that Council appoints a member to the Ashfield Community Action Network when making members in October; and

2. The report on the Ashfield Community Action Network be received.

9.3 Ashfield Parade Reserve Foreshore Redevelopment Plan

Funding has been approved in the 2009/10 Budget for the program of works to continue with the rehabilitation works program at the Ashfield Pde Res Foreshore as following:

Installation of the balance of the a temporary “ring lock” fencing;
Installation of three (3) bench seats on the concrete pads;
Stage 2 & 3 erosion control to the lower and upper embankments, weed control, foreshore and bush area restoration works, and
Planting up the evapo-transpiration swales.

Activity has commenced on this program of works.

OFFICER RECOMMENDATION – ITEM 9.3

That the information on the Ashfield Parade Reserve Foreshore Redevelopment Plan be received.

9.4 Members Items

It is customarily at this Committee to afford Committee Members opportunity to raise items of importance for consideration that are not included elsewhere in the agenda.

At her discretion, the Presiding Member may invite members to raise any issues.

At the last meeting, Mr Butler queried the regularity of the street cleaning program in the Town.

The DCD can advise that all roads in the Town are cleaned four times annually and the contractor is in the Town on a weekly basis completing a predetermined program of streets each week. Should there be an issue at any particular location, the contractor will amend the program and attend to that site.

9.5 Committee Tenure

Council established the Committee as a two-way communication tool in response to a perceived need as articulated by residents in the Ashfield community frustrated that their concerns for a deteriorating social fabric in the community was “falling on deaf ears”.

The Ashfield Stakeholder Advisory Committee has produced the Ashfield Community Action Plan that provides Ashfield community aspirations based on the Victorian Neighbourhood Renewal Program framework, including the need for the community to own and drive the Plans implementation and accomplishment. The Ashfield CAN is the vehicle to this end.

As with all Committees of Council, the Committee’s tenure ceases with the Ordinary Council Elections in October.

Council at its absolute discretion may retain, discontinue or amend the Committee thereafter.

Members are thanked for their commitment to enhancing the lives of all residents in the suburb and for the contribution made to the Committee process.

OFFICER RECOMMENDATION – ITEM 9.5

That the information on the Ashfield Stakeholder Advisory Committee tenure be received.

10.0 PUBLIC QUESTION TIME (PART TWO)

11.0 MOTIONS OF WHICH PREVIOUS NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN

12.0 ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NOTICES OF MOTION FOR THE NEXT MEETING

13.0 CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS

14.0 CLOSURE

Council is to determine whether any further meetings are to be held.