At last night's (5th November) Council Meeting, the Vincent Council unanimously supported an urgent potion brought forward by Mayor John Carey that restated and reinforced the Council's position on forced amalgamations, and specifically expressed its opposition to the exclusion of part of the Banks Precinct from the proposed new City of Perth. The motion as passed had a minor amendment to strengthen 6.1, but was otherwise passed as presented.
Caroline Cohen and John Hockley, joint Chairs of the Banks Precinct Action Group, and a number of other BPAG members spoke from the public gallery on the issue, expressing their horror at being excluded for no apparent reason. There is no doubting that the 450 residents of this area want to be part of Vincent (even if that means Perth), not Bayswater/Bassendean.
I also spoke, on the broader issues still to be faced, including, as I have previously argued in this blog, that there is still no certainty that the Government's proposal would be the one finally endorsed by the Local Government Advisory Board.
A battle might have been won, but the war is far from over.
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