Alice Cartan - Wollongong City Council Ward 1 Active Community Team Councillor - 2004-2008

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Elected in 2004 - Alice has been very active in her 4 years as a Ward 1 Councillor on Wollongong City Council ....

  • Fighting to ensure that Neighbourhood Committees be consulted on development matters
  • Ensuring controversial development applications in Ward 1 were referred to full council for decision in accordance with WCC's resolved policy
  • Ensuring concerns with the proposed Woolworth's development & Aged Care proposal at Bulli were properly addressed
  • Raising concerns about a Rat Run on WCC's compromises with Stocklands to allow a road through Thomas Gibson Park where the number of junior soccer players keeps exploding every year since 2000 - seeking to rescind WCC's decision
  • Fighting for retention of employment land at Bulli for "smart industry" development instead of housing - "I'm loathed to give up employment land," Cr Cartan said. "The site has huge potential for smart industries or tourism and should not be lost to more housing, especially when there is large residential development underway at Woonona and Sandon Point is about to come online" ...
  • Pushing fellow WCC councillors for retention of coastal panoramas not to be lost & retaining Thirroul's past
  • Ensuring the State Government comes clean on the Bulli Community Health Centre
  • WCC's Enviroment Fund & pushing for residents to have rainwater tanks on new dwellings
  • Opposing cost shifting by the NSW State Government on railway bridges - a State Government responsibility
  • Opposed the sale of land in Harbord St Thirroul, resumed for road widening, to V Vellar being concerned about the sale price
  • Sought to review the charter for reviewing the performance of the Wollongong General Manager
  • Pushing for the NSW State Government to provide sewer to as yet unserviced areas in Wollongong's north
  • Working with the community over its concerns of hooliganism & binge drinking.
  • Supporting local community facilities : helping surf clubs to secure their future / playgrounds & skate parks for the north
  • Encouraging children's reading & working for Thirroul District Library & Community Centre - plus lobbying the state government for greater funding for public libraries
  • an advocate for Breastfeeding mums
  • IPAC Director & member of Sports & Facilities Reference Group
  • Rural Fire Service & Councils Liaison Committee

    Last hours of Wollongong City Council of 2004-2008 - Deputy Lord Mayor Alice Cartan.

    Alice was one of a number of councillors not implicated at all in the ICAC corruption inquiry, which saw 4 ALP Councillors & former WCC staff members (including 1 ALP member) named in the Inquiry

  • argued that the NSW ALP State Government's decision was undemocratic
  • but nevertheless caught up in WCC's dismissal by NSW ALP Government Local Government Minister Paul Lynch
  • replaced by state government appointed administrators until the September 2012 elections (& since joined by Shellharbour Council). Subsequently the incoming Coalition State Government brought forward the elections to September 2011.
    Whilst Alice was no longer a WCC Ward 1 Councillor she remained committed to continuing to work to ensure that the community's voice was heard ....

  • Ensuring that residents in Ward 1 had the opportunity to participate in WCC's new Community Engagement process via Local Area Meetings - see more on ILAM Charter
  • Local Area Meetings for Areas 1 & 2 have been established - which Alice attended
  • Alice worked to have the Local Area 3 meeting established in August 2008
  • ROC - Reclaim Our City - on The Blue Mile proposal Alice Cartan stated “a developer can just walk away, it’s the community who have to live with it”..... developers had consistently used the lure of jobs creation to have their plans passed.
  • ICEC - Illawarra Community & Environment Connection
  • Continued to attend Wollongong Council meetings of the 3 Administrators appointed by the NSW State ALP Government
  • Alice urged the NSW ALP State Government appointed WCC Administrators to make council fee increases less savage

    Unfortunately Alice was not successful in gaining re-election at the September 3 2011 elections.

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