Media Statement

10-2-05

Randwick City Council to Contribute to a Regional Bike Path Coordinator for Eastern Sydney.

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Randwick City Council has accepted a Greens proposal that it agree to contribute to funding a proposed regional bike path coordinator for Eastern Sydney.

The decision flowed from a submission sent to the Greens from the bicycle lobbyist group BIKEast.

It is intended that the coordinator will be hosted at SSROC (Southern Regional Organisation of Councils) and will work in the Council areas of Botany, Randwick, Woollahra, Waverley and Sydney Council.

The resolution that was past at Randwick reads as follows.

That Council authorises the General Manager to write to SSROC:

  1. seeking details of the SSROC's intention to create the position of a regional Bicycle Coordinator for Sydney's east;
  2. notifying SSROC of Council's in principle commitment to a funding contribution of $12,000.00 per annum from the Environmental Levy for three years on the condition that SSROC and Bike East obtain similar commitments from the neighbouring Councils of Botany, Sydney City, Waverley and Woollahra and Government bodies such as the RTA and Health Department; and
  3. Bike East provides Council with a detailed budget on the projected expenditure of the $120,000.00 per annum prior to the grant being finalised.