The February Committee meeting of the Progress Association will be held on Monday 1st February 7-9pm at the Hall, with a light supper provided. All members are welcome to attend and join in some interesting discussion.
The Transition Town Steering group meets the 2nd Monday of the month 4-6pm at the Hall. Planning for the awareness raising events is underway and anyone willing to lend a hand is most welcome to come along and find out a bit more.
The Membership renewals will be arriving very shortly. Apologies for the delay but in the cause of good governance a privacy policy for dealing with email addresses was needed so that it was clear for what purposes the email addresses would be used.
A copy of the draft policy can be seen at http://coalpointprogress.blogspot.com/ or if you would like your own mailed to your inbox send a request to
coalpointprogress@gmail.com.
Alcohol Free zones in the Reserves of Coal Point?
On New Years Eve at Birriban reserve a considerable crowd of revelling youth, partied on into the wee hours causing disturbance to the local residents through abusive language, not-so-indiscreet displays of overt affection and lack of use of public toilets and rubbish facilities for disposing of personal and other kinds of waste.
This gathering appears to have suffered from the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption in the reserve. There have been other incidents recorded in local reserves of anti-social alcohol-induced behaviour as well.
A suggestion has been put forward to consider alcohol- free zones in the reserves as a way of addressing this issue. This issue will be discussed at the February Progress meeting. Any comments or suggestions are most welcome.
Agenda items for the February meeting include alcohol-free reserves, the privacy policy, events for the year, the Annual General Meeting, Environmental Education Grant submission for introduction to the community brochure and Transition Group events.
