My HTV

Dear voters,
This is my suggested order for your ballot paper. I'm happy to answer any questions on why I have ordered preferences in this way. I can be emailed at voterachel@bigpond.com
2 - Pidegon
6 - Zylberspic
8 - Bauch
4 - Poletti
5 - Webster
1 - Powning
3 - Carter
7 - Robins

Your vote this Saturday

Over the past weeks I have been doorknocking across the ward. If I have missed you then you may have found one of my calling cards under your door. Thanks for all the great feedback and welcome smiles. When doorknocking I have found a great diversity of views, which is to be expected and is good to see. What residents do have in common though is the desire for a councillor who lives locally, and who can represent them on a broad range of issues - from effective governance to clean streets. I'm not a single issue candidate, and I live here in Carlisle ward.
I need your vote on Nov 29th. When you vote, make sure you number all the boxes, or your vote will be invalid. And please, use your preferences wisely...

Thanks for your support,
Rachel

If elected my priorities for our ward will be:

• Taking climate change seriously - reducing Port Phillip's carbon footprint
• Ensuring development planning puts locals and sustainability first (including on the Triangle site)
• Making our streets and parks safer
• Supporting local traders and local artists - this means protecting what we love about our strip shopping centres
• Ensuring high quality and affordable community services, including housing, childcare and aged care

What do we do about ABC Learning in Port Phillip?

Like many others I am very concerned about the future of the 4 ABC Learning childcare centres in Port Phillip. With fellow CAPP candidates I have issued 2 media releases outling where to from here on this topic. I am calling for Council to play an active role by implementing community management of the centres. We will need federal government assistance to purchase the buildings if required. In my view childcare is an essential service, and its quality must not be compromised by market volatility.

Community Survey Results

Thank-you to the residents who were able to post back their community surveys.
I understand you are concerned about climate change, and want council to do more to prepare for it.
I also hear you are concerned about planning and development, and want to see the interests of residents and local business put first. Community safety is also a big issue in Carlisle ward, as is the dumping of rubbish on our streets.
I will work hard to address all of these issues. I will post my policy and actions statements on the blog shortly, and this will provide details of my comittments in all these areas. If you still have a survey, by all means please send it back, I'm still keen to hear your concerns.

Regards,
Rachel

My Community Survey

Thank-you to all who have taken the time to respond to my community survey. If you have only just received it or still have it lying around, I'd still like to hear from you. I'll be posting the results of the survey received to date here on the blog in the next day or so, and will keep it updated as more responses come in.

Rachel

Sustainable Communities

Sustainable Communities

As the environmental impact of human activity on global weather conditions becomes clearer there are many things that local communities can do to lessen our household Co2 emissions. If elected to represent Carlisle Ward I will be advocating for the following:

• Conduct a major information campaign for households on climate change and global warning and the implications for Port Phillip
• Initiate Tune Up Port Phillip: a project to bundle together existing incentives, knowledge and skills into a retrofit service at scale for householders. Tune Up PP would offer householders on a street-by-street, locality by locality basis:
• A high quality residential environmental audit
• Based on the audit results, design and building advice to retrofit
• An attractive financial package for householders to take the next steps
• Installation in households of appropriate environmental products and services to a minimum standard (this could include a range from insulation, glazing, lighting, heating, water, and other solutions)
• Training and education for householders in the use, maintenance, performance of these products, and other environmental steps.
• Support and training for designers, builders and trades to develop the required solutions and to make them work.
• A green certificate which adds intrinsic value to a householder’s property.
• Conduct an energy, greenhouse gas and water audit of all Council buildings and services to determine the potential for and costs of conversion to green power, solar energy generation and water recycling.
• Research and identify the major commercial and residential greenhouse gas emitters in Port Phillip.

If we all work together we will be able to reduce our overall emissions - it seems that what is missing is the political will to make that happen.

A vote for Rachel Powning on Saturday is a vote for sustainable communities in Port Phillip.