Community to Lose Funding for Local Projects
13 March, 2007
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The Lord Mayor’s announcement that he is taking money from community projects is a backward step, Dutton Park ward Councillor Helen Abrahams said.
The Livability Committee Funds have delivered some great projects in Dutton Park Ward over the last two years.
“I know members of the Dutton Park Livability Committee will be very disappointed by this announcement.
“They have volunteered their time for two years to allocate the funds to worthwhile community projects.
“Money from a fund set up for the community for neighbourhood projects will be taken by the Lord Mayor and put under his control to spend as he sees fit,” Cr Abrahams said.
The Livability Committees is a chance for local residents to have their say about where and how local funding should be spent in local neighbourhoods.
“These funds were set up for the small projects that always get overlooked by the big budget items like tunnels – the little things that never rate a mention in the Council Budget. It’s the small things that make communities great.”
The grants have funded:
· the community mural at Peoples Park, Boundary Street West End and the mural under the SE Freeway at Woolloongabba
· a Womens’s Safety Seminar
· Workshop space for Reverse Garbage to provide a broader range of workshop options
· Musgrave Park Pool painting
“These are just a few of the 70 very important projects funded through the Dutton Park Ward Livability Funds over the last two financial years,” Cr Abrahams said.
“The Lord Mayor has supported the existence of these funds until now – why, just 12 months out from an election, does he suddenly want to take control of the money?”