Meeting opened at 7:05 pm
Present: As Per attendance book.
Apologies: As Per attendance book
Minutes of last meeting accepted as a true record. Moved: Richard Baran; seconded: Vivian Miles
Correspondence: Out
· To Mayor Drew Jessop re: Obtaining Population & Traffic figures
· To Consumer affairs re: guest speaker for August meeting
· Article appeared in Hume leader on 8/8/17 Re: Growth in Greenvale and the lack of a secondary college and the need to upgrade Mickleham Road.
Correspondence: In
· Data from Mayor Drew Jessop on population growth in Greenvale.
· Vicroads report shows 135% growth in traffic in 10 years.
· Ros Spence: Land in Barrymore Road, set aside for Secondary college, is not planned to be sold, but there are still no plans to build a college on this site.
· Aitkin Hill site(?)
· Invitation from Kathy Kieselbach of Providence Uniting Church for local community get together on Wednesday 20 September at Uniting Church, Cnr Providence Road and Carroll Lane, Greenvale
President’s
report:
.
President reported that there
is plenty of interest from the social media but no one present from the new
estates except from our treasurer . It seems that there are no issues ?!· Our sub-committee on Mickleham Road has not been active recently.
· Still unclear whether Aldi is coming to the shopping centre .
· Number of cars travelling on Mickleham Rd . daily is conflicting . Vic Roads stating around 6000 (one way) and official board at the shopping centre 24000 (both ways)
Treasurer’s
report:
The June
closing balance was presented along with expenditure, as well as the report for
2017-18 to date.Guest Speaker :- Department of Consumer Affairs:
A speaker presented to the meeting the level of scams in Victoria - $18 Million lost last year; 31,667 reports .
After an interesting talk, and a number of handouts, the following were advised
https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/scamschoolconsumer
Dob in Scam 1800 55 8181
Other
Business:
Meeting closed at 8:20 pm
Next Meeting 26th October 2017
