Nick Galvin (BLAG), Jeff Donaldson (Maianbar Progress), Dani Cooper (BLAG), Justin Case (B&M Chamber of Commerce) after the meeting
At Monday night’s full council meeting, Sutherland Shire Council backed down from its outrageous decision to try and steal your library.
Thanks to all your letters, emails, signs, phone calls, petition signatures, film-making, song-writing and general concerted community action we forced council to listen to us.
We can now look forward to the continuation of our community library in the fabulous, new state-of-the-art building.
Congratulations to everybody!
The hard-fought decision finally came in the form of a “Mayoral Minute”.
Mayor Lorraine Kelly proposed the following motion:
“That council continue to provide a library at Bundeena Public School at existing service levels and within existing budget.”
That motion was passed unanimously.
So many people were involved in this spectacular piece of community action it is impossible to name them all. Specials thanks must go to school principal Michelle Shelton who calmly and methodically negotiated with the council to get this great result.
A big thank-you must also go to Councillor George Capsis OAM, one of Bundeena’s councillors, who led the fight within council to get this decision overturned.
If you want to personally thank George, his email address is gcapsis@ssc.nsw.gov.au or you can call or text him on 0434 327 758
Great work Dani, Nick, and so many others. Now, shall we email and write to council etc to thank them too? Stick worked, now some carrot 😉
Yep: email whoever you think deserves recognition. In particular George Capsis was magnificent and deserves hearty congratulation.
congratulations to the Bundeena and Maianbar communities for saving our lovely library. But massive thanks need to go to Nick, Dani, Marnie, Justin, Teresa et al for rallying the troops and providing the framework for protest. Thanks to council for changing your minds, sorry about some of the mean things I have said about you over the last few weeks. Good on you for realising you stuffed up and fixing it.