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Welcome to Your Future, Your Say Marrickville
Your Future, Your Say Marrickville is designed to give you and our community members an opportunity to have a say on important issues and projects that shape our future. By participating in Your Future, Your Say Marrickville you will contribute to our community and assist Marrickville Council in making important decisions.
So welcome! We look forward to you adding your comments and ideas to our Current Online Discussions and Surveys from the list on the right hand side as well as letting us know what you would like to be consulted on by clicking on the Your Ideas tab below and telling us what you would like to see discussed by your community.
Have Your Say and help shape our Future!
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We want feedback on a special rate variation to help meet the cost of building the New Marrickville Library.
In order to provide the kind of new Library the community wants, Council will need to raise a total of $30 million. Seven million dollars has already been earmarked from Council reserves. To raise the additional $23 million, Council is proposing a special rate increase of 3.6% (an average of $1 per week for residents and $6.70 per week for businesses) with the cost spread out over 15 years to minimise the impact on current residents.
Without a special rate increase, Council will have insufficient resources to build the new Library.
Council is asking for community feedback on the proposal to increase rates above the normal annual increases in order to pay for the New Marrickville Library. Tell us your thoughts in the online discussion.
by admin 27 Jan 2012, 8:34am
New Library Design Competition and Community Consultation Launch
Monday 22 August
Today, Marrickville Mayor Fiona Byrne launched the New Marrickville Library Design Competition and Community Consultation on the site of the new library.
"It's vitally important that as many Marrickville residents as possible tell us what they want to see in the new Library, as well as what they want their Library to look like. I encourage everyone to have their say during the consultation process," Councillor Byrne said.
You're invited to have your say about the new library site in our online discussion forum!
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by comengage 19 Aug 2011, 8:42am
Have your say on the future of Local Government
Marrickville Council is urging residents to submit their feedback via our survey to the State Government's draft Destination 2036 Action Plan. The draft Plan, released in early December, is the outcome of a meeting of the states Mayors and General Managers in Dubbo in August of this year.
Among wide ranging reform proposals the draft Plan proposes cutting red tape, encourages more Council partnerships and resource sharing, and reviewing the rate pegging system and funding models for councils.
Marrickville Council must submit any comments on the draft plan to the Division of Local Government by Wednesday 15 February 2012, so residents and read more
by comengage 9 Dec 2011, 5:27pm
Marrickville Matters
Marrickville Matters will be delivered to your door in the next two weeks. Check out page 5 for more ideas about what our community wants to see in the new library.
Patricia and her granddaughter have been visiting the library every week for the last two years.
"I'd like to see an annexed area for parents and grandparents to browse through magazines and newspapers with a space for their young kids to sleep. I like to look at landscapes – a garden. They have wonderful services, like the storytime and games for kids. I'd like to see that continue in the new library but in a larger space."
by comengage 26 Aug 2011, 5:33pm
