Light Rail Support Committee membership announced

COMMUNITY LIGHT RAIL SUPPORT PLAN COMMITTEE

Randwick City Council has today (6 August 2014) announced the members of Council's newly established Community Light Rail Support Plan Committee.

The Committee will provide an additional avenue of consultation and feedback to Council over the next five years on its Light Rail Support Plan.

The light rail support plan proposes allocating $68M in future draft budgets, subject to detailed community consultation, to build a multi-storey car park in Kingsford, claw back street parking removed because of the light rail (such as along Anzac Parade), upgrade drainage, create new urban plazas and develop better cycleway connections.

Council will also be conducting wider consultation with all affected residents, businesses and ratepayers and use our established consultation methods such as local Precincts, www.yoursayrandwick.com.au and Council's social media channels.

The committee will meet this month to establish its terms of reference, a meeting schedule and clarify the role of the group.

Members of the Light Rail Support Plan Committee are:

Randwick Council representative - General Manager or delegate

Souths Juniors representative - Mr Geoff Knight, CEO Souths Juniors

Cycling industry representative - Mr Jim Hope, Bike East

Resident representative - Mr Mark Haldane

Resident representative - Ms Paulette Barahona

Resident representative - Ms Lily Liu

Resident representative - Mr Terry Lustig

Resident representative - Mr Paul Harapin

Business representative - Mr Peter Schick, President Kingsford Chamber of Commerce

Business representative - Ms Carmel Ellis-Gulli, College Director Randwick TAFE

Business representative - Mr Shane Vincent, Belle Property Randwick