Foreshadowed Motion: (Da Cruz/Kiat)
1. Adopt a service
standard for street sweeping of seven days per week for mainstreets;
2. Retain the
existing service standard for street sweeping of a 40 working day cycle for
residential streets;
3. Council maintains the
mowing policy of the former Ashfield Council in relation to Verges in the
former Ashfield LGA and;
a) Notes
the cost of extending the verge mowing service to the old Ashfield LGA would
cost $1.2 million (or $720,000 if privatised);
b) Notes
that there has been no community consultation on whether residents in
Ashfield wish their rates to be spent in this way; and
c) Consults
with the community in the old Ashfield LGA on measures to improve street
amenity, including options such as verge mowing, garden planting, preventing
and addressing illegal dumping, and footpath repairs or upgrades, with a view
to spending some or all of the $1.2 million saved per year by not extending
the verge mowing service.
4. Adopt a service
standard for verge maintenance of a 20 working day cycle from November to
March and a 40 day working cycle from April to October.
5. Council consults with the
community on a Verge Maintenance Policy to transition away from council
maintained lawn verges to:
i)council
maintained habitat verges providing where required paths connecting the
footpath and kerbs or
ii)resident
maintained verges including grass lawn and providing where required paths
connecting the footpath and kerbs.
The Foreshadowed Motion lapsed.
Minutes at http://innerwest.infocouncil.biz/Open/2019/06/C_25062019_MIN_3699.htm
Sustainable Streets https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/environment-and-sustainability/in-the-neighbourhood/clean-green-streets Council maintains our streets on a full time basis, with a combination
of staff and contractors. At the Council meeting on 25 June 2019, new
harmonised service standards for the Inner West were adopted. The new
standards are as follows:...https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/information-for-residents/roads-and-footpaths/nature-strips-and-verge
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