Minutes of the Kensington Association meeting - 26th
September 2004
Chair: Paul Devereux
Minutes: Richard Reilly
Apologies
Rod Warrick, Jan Wild, Fiona Burnes, Richard Reilly, Kate
Redwood, Sheila Byard, Lydia Kauzlaric, Bill Deveney, Amanda
Swaney, Lesley Hoatson on leave overseas.
VRC Bund Wall plan
A representative of the Maribyrnong Flood Plain Committee
addressed the meeting to discuss the impending building of
the bund (flood wall) along the river's edge of the racecourse
and along Smithfield Road. Reviews of the data that the VRC
have based the wall construction on have some questionable
conclusions. There is no consideration of global warming,
tidal data is questionable and the Kensington Banks area has
been designed and built without taking into account of a future
wall erection.
The current situation is the bund has been approved by the
Minister of Panning, but construction has not begun.
Kensington Association supports the Committee's concerns and
supports their call for a full and open review of the data
on which the decision was based.
Lack of women attending Kensington Association
meetings
It has been noted that recent meetings have been attended
mostly by male members. The Committee to asking for suggestions
of ways to encourage women to participate in the Association.
Simplot (Four and Twenty factory) site
The Simplot site has been re-sold to Banco. KA is waiting
for discussions on future developments of the site.
Holland Park
The park's redevelopment plan is to remove the bitumen car
park adjacent to the football oval and The Venny activity
park. Currently the plan is to install angled parking spaces
along Childers Street along the railway side of the park.
Redevelopment details and dates have not been finalized.
Cricket nets in Holland Park
The local Cricket club is upgrading the cricket nets in the
park. It was not thought that this would be a problem from
the Kensington Association point of view.
The meeting then closed and the Annual General
Meeting was declared open.
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Kensington Association,
6 September 2004
Committee of management
Positions on the Committee were declared vacant
and nominations were called. The following were elected to
the Committee of the Kensington Association for 2004-2005:
Chairperson Paul Devereux
Secretary David Ettershank
Treasurer Jeff Langdon
Planning Richard Reilly
Minutes Secretary David Michelsen
Membership Sececretary/ Communications
Tony Dare
Environment and Noise Geoff Cox
History and Heritage Sheila Byard
Public Officer Jeff Langdon
Banks Area Liaison Greg Bray
Financial Statement
Kensington Association remains financially healthy. Members
are invited to contact Treasurer, Jeff Langdon, for details
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