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Climate Action and Environment
- Help residents and businesses install solar panels and batteries to lower power bills
- Install EV charging stations across Boroondara to improve EV uptake
- Help residents transition from gas to lower power bills
- Support the electrification of Boroondara Council
- Protect trees and grow our canopy. Boroondara's canopy is way below target
- Develop community gardens and encourage planting along naturestrips
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Services, amenities, and quality of life
- Keep rates low! Boroondara recorded a $14m surplus last financial year!
- Protect and expand our parks and paths
- Support local small business via support for the Business Associations in Boroondara economic development plan
- Deliver quality reliable services in healthcare, maternal care, and child care
- Support local schools, libraries, and sporting clubs
- Enable sustainable development whilst protecting built heritage, expanding local amenities in line with population growth, and ensuring residents are consulted
- Restore in home aged care support
- Support residents in combating the surge in crime with better lighting, cameras, support for neighbourhood watch and advocacy for more police
- Lower the cost of bins and improve the regularity of pickups
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Local Projects
- Lobby for the removal of Glenferrie Rd Rail Crossing
- Build the Hawthorn to Box Hill bike trail
- Support the renovation of Hawthorn RSL
- Advocate for the development of affordable housing at the Denmark St VicRoads site
- Make Glenferrie Station and Boroondara Trams wheelchair and pram accessible
- Establish a LGBTQIA+ Advisory committee
- Create a pedestrian crossing in vicinity of Auburn Rd and Urquhart St
- Establish the feasibility of a bike overpass between Bills St and Talbot Cres to connect Kooyong Station to the new housing precinct at the Melb Uni / Bill St sites in order to alleviate traffic congestion
- Work with state government to provide secure bike lockers at train stations.
***More policies will be added as I consult with the community. If you'd like to tell me whats important to you just reach out at [email protected]