Thank you to all who came along to our public forum on 30 August - an interesting and informative evening! A huge thank you to Bonnie Capell for an excellent job as MC and to the candidates on the panel - Sally Townley, Christina Monneron, Mark Sultana, Jan Strom, Mike Squire, David Quinn, George Cecato and John Arkan. It was great to have a representative from every group bar one, plus independent candidate Erhard Dehmelt, who said a few words at the end of the evening.
We were pleased to hear broad support for renewable energy, public transport, divestment, and even moves to become a zero carbon community - though there still appears to be an alarming lack of understanding of the urgency of science-based coastal zone management from some candidates.
Stay tuned for our next blog post very soon for more details on where different candidates stand on these climate-related issues.
We look forward to working for positive, local climate solutions with whoever is elected to Council.
We were pleased to hear broad support for renewable energy, public transport, divestment, and even moves to become a zero carbon community - though there still appears to be an alarming lack of understanding of the urgency of science-based coastal zone management from some candidates.
Stay tuned for our next blog post very soon for more details on where different candidates stand on these climate-related issues.
We look forward to working for positive, local climate solutions with whoever is elected to Council.