Scrooge Campaign (Stop Council Raiding Our Open Green Environment)

Facebook Event: Scrooge Campaign (Stop Council Raiding Our Open Green Environment) 

• Organised by: Karingal Local Area Planning (KLAP) Committee
• Location: Karingal Neighbourhood House
  Karingal Place, 103 Ashleigh Avenue, Karingal 3199
• Date:  10 October 2013
• Time: 7PM - 9PM
  

For some years there has been an ongoing battle between Frankston Resident in Karingal and Frankston City Council. The battle has never been declared, but it none the less exists.

Several years ago, but not to many years ago, the Karingal Tennis Club ceased to exist, purportedly due to lack of interest.  Who knows the exact reason, I certainly have no knowledge of that time, but as always there could have been many reasons apart from the official line. Their site on Gretana Crescent in Karingal became abandoned as a result. But the land, facilities and buildings were under the control of Frankston Council, public land created when the estate first came into being.

Any reasonable person would have seen that a viable site could have been offered for use to some one else. You just have to ask around, a Community Garden, a play area for the kids that are coming into the area with new parents, a Men's Shed. Some have been lobbying for these activities for years. But all this community concern has been ignorantly and blatantly ignored. Worse than that, a valuable and usable site has been neglected so badly, that just a short time ago Council voted to have the Club Rooms as they were demolished - whether that is reasonable or not, no one knows for sure. A bureaucrat will always make the excuse their is no alternative, it's to expensive to renovate, if that's what suits, or makes their job that much easier.

Now Councillor's want to sell the site. Despite, years of opposition to selling, many many meetings, countless hours sent by citizens in good faith, Council wants to act in bad faith.

You will have to read other posts on this site as they are loaded to get the full picture, but it is certainly not a picture of Franskton Council acting on behalf of the community it collects rate from.

We encourage you to come to the meeting on 10 October at Karingal Neighbourhood House, Karingal Place in Ashleigh Avenue 7:00PM. Everybody is welcome.  This is the Facebook Event link: Scrooge Campaign (Stop Council Raiding Our Open Green Environment)

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