update

Apart from Council meetings, here are some of the events attended by me as your Greens Alderman this month:

• Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme briefing
• NT Stimulus Package briefing
• Alice Springs 2030 (x2)
• Launch of Athol Pine Management Manual
• Sustainable Building Advisory committee
• Environment Advisory committee
• Araluen Access Grants committee
• Sunday Markets
• Opening night Sydney Travelling Film Festival
• MacDonnell Shire Committee Meeting
• Local Govt Assoc NT Executive Meeting
• Local Govt Assoc NT Strategic Planning (Darwin)
• Local Govt Assoc NT AGM (Darwin)
• Totem Theatre meeting
• Community Gardens Committee
• ABC local radio (x2) re: re landfill, dumping rubbish on crown land, E waste, community garden

Community Garden

After 3 years of meeting talking and negotiating, it looks like Alice Springs will get it's first community garden.

Council has approved Francis Smith Park as the first location for the development of a community garden.

A community garden provides a space for interaction and community cohesiveness on many levels. Watch this space for more developments.

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