On the 9 August (Week 4 Term 3) the Tuggeranong Community Council’s Youth Engagement Committee held a forum to find out from the youth of Tuggeranong what they think, what they would like to find out, and have done about a series of topics relating …
Next week on Wednesday afternoon, the 9 August (Week 4 Term 3) the Tuggeranong Community Council’s Youth Engagement Committee will be holding a forum to find out from the youth of Tuggeranong what they think, what they would like to find out, and have done …
The recent AGM of the Tuggeranong Community Council had resulted to some significant changes to the executive. After many years of outstanding service, two of our long-standing members, Beverley and Max Flint have stood down from the TCC Executive.
As a follow up to the proposal to develop an Environmental Sporting Precinct at West Greenway, a planning group from the West Greenway Stakeholder Panel met to talk about running a number of events to explain the idea. A decision was made to start to …
The Tuggeranong Community Council welcomes the recent announcement to fund improvements to Anketell Street and Kambah Village where: $3 million for the Tuggeranong Town Centre will be used for a “raised pedestrian zone and low speed traffic environment, new on-road cycle lanes, tree replacement and …
Well is has been a busy month for meeting and events. As you are aware they have lowered Upper Stanger Pond and Isabella Ponds, where they removed over 2000 carp some a massive size. They are also going to lower Tuggeranong Pond by 1.5 metres …
On Sunday 5th March as part of Clean Up Australia Day over fifty people helped clean up the Lake. Organised by the Tuggeranong Lake Carers (TLC) over thirty two bags of rubbish were collected as well as multiple shopping trolleys, a number of mattresses and other debris. The TLC were well supported by Tuggeranong Community Council then put on a BBQ for all participants and the Tuggeranong Sea Scouts who had well over 20 scouts, cubs and parents helping out, including suppling a car, trailer and driver to go around to pick up rubbish left in various pre determined points and bring back to the Scout Hall.
I hope you all had a good break, we at the Tuggeranong Community Council are now gearing up for the new year. We will be looking at following up on issues identified by our recent survey i.e. ways to revitalise the Tuggeranong Town Centre, emphasing the need for upgrades to town centres in Tuggeranong particularly Kambah Village, pushing for better roads and public transport in the region as well as ensuring that the importance of work to improve the health of Lake Tuggeranong begins. We are also looking at the possibility of organising/supporting a possible Street Market/Festival later this year. To this end we will approach the government to see if they are able to support us in this endeavour.
Well our School Community Awards are well underway with Trinity Christian School last week and Caroline Chisholm School earlier this evening. Presentation will happen at Namadgi School and Lanyon and Calwell High schools later this week and Wanniassa School and Erindale and lake Tuggeranong Colleges …
I would like to thank Wayne and the team for running the last meeting, it is great to have a deputy and a team to support the organisation. It will also be great to get back to normal after our recent ACT election. Other events …
In addition to the committee members who were voted in last meeting we have now seconded Andrew Eppelstum to be our new Secretary. Andrew and Taryn, the new coordinator of the Community Health and Education subcommittee, are now looking after the TCC Facebook presence and for the first time we used Facebook to promote the Brindabella Candidates Forum. The forum, was held on Wednesday 14th September at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
This will be the last meeting for this committee that I will report on before the AGM, which will be held later in the night. It has been another eventful month for Tuggeranong. Hopefully by now, you will have filled in out Tuggeranong Livability Survey, designed to find our what people want for Tuggeranong. It is available on our website at www.tuggcc.com
