by Charles Jago, 3rd August 2023 In the last week, a new hot water system was installed in our house. Unlike the pre-existing hot water system (a 4.8 kW, 250 litre electric Rheem system which was showing signs of age), the new system uses a “heat pump” with reverse-cycle air-conditioning technology. Not only that, but […]
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by Councillor Charles Jago Recently I visited Concord High School and was pleasantly surprised to see the upgrades that have been done in the last couple of years. I saw a new multi-use playing area, a new COLA (Covered Outdoor Learning Area), upgrade to the school tuckshop, new seating and tables, new toilets and much
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by Councillor Charles Jago At this week’s council meeting (20 June 2023), Council adopted an updated delivery plan, operational plan and budget, which included the rate increase (special rate variation – SRV) which was recently approved by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). This rate increase is an important issue which directly affects the
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By Councillor Charles Jago Summary The Heath Street cycleway is a section of Canada Bay’s 7km East West cycle way which connects Concord to the Bay Run, running for two blocks (210m) from First Avenue to Henley Marine Drive. The Heath Street section was available from 22 November 2022 to 26 April 2023: it lasted
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By Councillor Charles Jago Summary: For the Bushells site on Burwood Road Concord, councillors approved a development that was roughly twice the scale of surrounding developments, and strongly opposed by the community. Their argument was that if they did not approve it, the government would approve the same or worse. But they have never been
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Yesterday I met with senior nurses Alison, Stephen and Mavi from Concord Hospital, where I learned about the difficulties nurses and midwives face because they are continually understaffed. I support nurse to patient ratios because they provide better patient care, they protect nurses and midwives from burnout and they ensure better mentoring of younger nurses
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by Councillor Charles Jago A number of residents emailed me in my first term as a councillor with problems about trees, usually their neighbours’ trees causing them grief. Recently I found a great legal resource at legal publisher Lexology.com (originally written by Cordato Partners) which gives a really great overview of residents’ rights in regard
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By Councillor Charles Jago Now that the ABC has listed me as re-elected to Canada Bay Council, I would like to say thankyou to everybody who supported me in my election. Especially, thanks to everybody who helped on the campaign. For this election, the Greens have campaigned strongly on overdevelopment and the need for more
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Despite the very windy weather, Canada Bay Greens members and supporters turned out to meet and eat In Real Life at the launch of our Local Government election campaign. Cheering campaigners on was Balmain MP, Jamie Parker, who reviewed how his suburb transformed from being a working class Labor suburb to a Greens stronghold once
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By Councillor Charles Jago At Tuesday night’s meeting of Canada Bay Council (28 September 2021), Councillor Marian Parnaby moved a notice of motion entitled “Infrastructure needs in the future“. In my view, the basic idea of the motion was sound, but it lacked sufficient teeth to have any significant impact. It was a wide-ranging motion
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