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BAYSIDE COUNCIL SURVEY ON
BEAUMARIS SKATE FACILITY

To the members of Beaumaris
Conservation Society Inc.

 
URGENCY: Because of the close deadline for return to Bayside City
Council by
Friday, 24th June 2005, of the above survey forms, which we hope you
received
in your letterbox, the full Executive of
Beaumaris
Conservation Society Inc. has met and decided unanimously to
recommend to
BCS Inc. members, and their friends and associates, that they should
definitely
participate in the survey and that they should consider supporting the
Society’s recommended preference order for the three sites that the
Council has
short-listed.

FORMAT OF SURVEY: The Executive meeting was concerned that the survey
invites only a single preferred location to be indicated, rather than
inviting
participants to also indicate their second and third preferences. If
the result
of the survey is that the most preferred site achieves less than 50% of
the
indications received, the Society will not be satisfied that the views
of a
majority of respondents have been allowed to be effective in this
matter, and
it will press strongly for a “run-off”
survey
of views on the two most strongly-supported options in order to
determine which
of them is truly preferred by a majority.

RECOMMENDATION: The Executive suggests members
and supporters indicate
preferences as:
 

 
Council staff have
informed BCS Inc. that a marking of the survey with numbered
preferences will
be treated as though the survey form had been marked with a single tick
in the
square in which the first preference indication is shown. BCS Inc.
considers
that nevertheless such extra information could well be helpful in the
assessment of the survey, and can do no harm. BCS Inc. has been told that those
showing such preferences should also
state a reason for their preference if the preferences are to be
accepted.


IT IS IMPORTANT REASONS BE STATED: BCS Inc. suggests your stated
reasons
could include:

1. This large reserve is much
more
multi-purpose & built-up than the others – another facility would
fit best
there.

2. This tiny reserve is solely
for passive
recreation – its distinctive identity & contrast to the Concourse
must
stay.

3. This large reserve has a very
substantial area of intact bushland whose conservation is essential.
Traffic
alongside it in Balcombe Road is heavier and faster, and thus
much more
dangerous, than our higher preference sites.

Please
contact
BCS Inc. above to get Council to send
you a survey form if you have lost it or lack one.

Adrian Cerbasi

President

Beaumaris
Conservation Society Inc.