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Annual Report 2005-2006 - Waverley Council

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<strong>Waverley</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />

State of the Environment Activities <strong>2005</strong>/<strong>2006</strong><br />

Social<br />

Traffic and Transport School Safety. 82<br />

At least one school is being patrolled each day during the morning<br />

and afternoon start and finish times.<br />

In addition, a mobile speed board has been purchased and is<br />

being used to monitor the speed of vehicles near schools.<br />

Number of library members. 96<br />

The total number of registered members as at 30 June <strong>2006</strong> was 33,399. Of these, 27,277 are<br />

adults, 5,623 children, 351 members of the Home Library Service, and 148 institutions.<br />

Number of committees receiving specialist support. 109<br />

Committees receiving specialist support during the period included: <strong>Waverley</strong> Community and<br />

Seniors Association, ECHO, EATS, DIRC, Norman Andrews House, Junction House, Randwick/<br />

<strong>Waverley</strong> Community Transport, Bondi Outreach Project and Bondi Youth Accommodation.<br />

WAVES was provided with extensive assistance with wind up, after the NSW Department of Health<br />

absorbed the service.<br />

Staff also provided support to the management committees of Kindamindi, Bondi Beach Cottage,<br />

Grace Child Care Centre, Bondi Toy Library and each of the five OOSH Services in <strong>Waverley</strong>.<br />

Activities included assistance with grant applications, financial management, recruitment, conflict<br />

resolution and team building, annual general meetings, service review/ business plans for funding<br />

bodies, client surveys and staff management<br />

Number of community issues taken up and progressed<br />

109<br />

through advocacy, research and community partnerships.<br />

(people living in domestic squalor, mental health working<br />

group).<br />

Staff worked with a variety of groups in pursuing issues of community concern. Significant<br />

activities undertaken in the year included:<br />

An extensive advocacy campaign highlighting issues around homelessness in <strong>Waverley</strong><br />

comprising press releases and letters to all State and Federal stakeholders. The campaign<br />

sought action from relevant agencies including the funding for services to rough sleepers, and<br />

resulted in dialogue with ICLA, NSW Department of Housing and City of Sydney.<br />

The development of a strategies to address two issues raised in <strong>Council</strong>’s Community Safety<br />

Plan, binge drinking and related violence among young people (15-25), and domestic violence,<br />

and initiation of the partnerships that will enable their implementation. Funds for<br />

implementation were sought from the Attorney General’s Crime Prevention Division under<br />

<strong>Council</strong>’s Community Safety Plan in November and funds were granted in the last quarter.<br />

Presentation on affordable housing at the invitation of the NSW Legislative <strong>Council</strong> in May for<br />

their inquiry into the Allocation of Social Housing.<br />

<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2005</strong>/<strong>2006</strong>

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