About a
fortnight ago I went down to West Ulladulla Sports Park to check out the issues
that are going on there.
Issues like
car parking and access road are ongoing and super slow- especially since they
are costly beasts.
The netball
courts have problems especially the splitting and cracking in the surface that
makes it hard to play.
The juniors
footballers want a big fence to stop the roo’s running through their training
sessions, and the drainage fixed up so that wet weather doesn’t keep them of
the pitch so long.
AFL made the
point that they would like their field finished to a good standard for the next
season.
What also
came through was that they were feeling a bit left out of the process. Some
groups had offered assistance to get jobs done with voluntary labour; others
felt they could source materials etc a better deal than council.
So I spent
the weekend going over this stuff in my head and put the following motion up to
Council.
a) For the
2012/13 Budget, Council allocate $150,000 to the Ulladulla Sports Park;
b) Council
seek opportunities to work with the Sports Park Management Committee to
maximise the funding available to the park; ie, through in-kind contributions;
c) The
Ulladulla Sports Park Group provide input into the priority of projects within
the complex;
d) The
current master planning exercise that is underway be expedited to assist the
user groups and management committee with their decision making
I wanted to make
sure we at least secured funding for netball, but at the same time trying to
keep the motion flexible enough so that the sporting groups could work together
to maximise the funds ( since there seems to be so little to go around
sometimes).
The general
manager had intercepted me and made sure the funds were put in the budget- so
by the time it came to the ordinary meeting we were just talking about
structure.
I hope this
minor change makes the west Ulladulla sporting fraternity feel a bit more
empowered to look after their grounds in the way they see fit and I look
forward to some feedback in the not so distant future if it is working out.
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