Bankstown City Council
From Bankstown Greens
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Goals
The next local government election will be in 2008. The Bankstown Greens currently have no council members. We aim to run 12 candidates in the next election and elect a Bankstown Greens councillor.
Council Meetings
Everyone is invited to attend regular Council Meetings. Ordinary Council Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month while Development and Committee meetings are on the second Tuesday of the month. Business papers with the meeting's agenda are available at libraries and Council's Customer Service Centre on the Friday before the meeting (they usually come very late, so it is advisable to collect them on the following Saturday).
To address Council on an item on the Business Paper, call the Public Officer on (02) 9707 9531 at least 24 hours before the meeting.
Meetings start at 6pm and are held in the Council Chambers at the corner of The Mall and Chapel Road.
- Agenda of the ordinary meeting of Bankstown City Council, December 2005
- Agenda of the ordinary meeting of Bankstown City Council, July 2005
- Agenda of the ordinary meeting of Bankstown City Council, June 2005
- Agenda of the ordinary meeting of Bankstown City Council, April 2005
Council Public Exhibitions
CITYPLAN
The CITYPLAN guides Council's efforts strategically and operationally in the near future. It is an excellent resource to gain an understanding of the City of Bankstown and the priorities of Bankstown City Council.
CITYPLAN contains Council's vision and mission, as well as a series of corporate outcomes that Council has set for itself, following extensive consultation with the community. Strategies and actions aimed at achieving these corporate outcomes are also included, together with Council's budget and financial forecast for the coming five years.
Environmental issues
Throughout its history, Bankstown City Council has systematically annihilated every freshwater creek and channel to the extent where today only scraps of intact floodplain wetland exist.
Media
- Resident anger erupts over gas pipeline route
2006-10-03 - Councillors' big mobile costs
2006-08-28 - Councillors scrap over rubbish
2006-07-11
Did you Know?
That Bankstown Council has failed to recognise places of Aboriginal historical value such as Salt Pan Creek. Between 1926-1935 Salt Pan Creek, an Aboriginal squatters camp south-west of Sydney containing refugee families of the dispossessed and people seeking to escape the harsh and brutal policies of the Aborigines Protection Board becomes a focal point of intensifying Aboriginal resistance in NSW. Significant alliances, strategies and future leaders are developed. People such as Jack Campbell, George and Jack Patten, Pearl Gibbs and Bill Onus all spend time in the camp. In 1933 Joe Anderson was filmed at Salt Pan Creek by cinesound news making a strong statement in support of Indigenous Rights.
Salt Pan Creek had been a site of Indigenous resistance from as early as September 1809, when Tedbury (son of Pemulwuy) was involved in a skirmish that saw Frederick Meredith, one of the first two white farmers in the area, injured with a spear wound and forced to abandon his farm. Being between two arms of Salt Pan Creek, the area was probably an important food source for the Aborigines, who no doubt viewed with dismay the intention of Meredith and fellow white farmer William Bond to settle, clear and cultivate it. http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/timeline/histimeline.html
References
- FAQs - General: http://www.bankstowncity.nsw.gov.au/faqGeneral.cfm#5
- http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/timeline/histimeline.html
