The Community Group : Neighbourhood Forum 5

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Wollongong Council Administrators established eight different Neighbourhood Forums in 2009.

Each forum meets once a month and is open for anyone in the local community to attend. An elected convener coordinates the forum, and a Council worker attends each forum to report back on issues raised within the forums.

Neighbourhood Forum 5 covers the Wollongong City area, and also includes Gwynneville, Keiraville and Mangerton. Felix Bronneberg is the convener of the forum, which meets at Wollongong City Library on the first Wednesday of each month.

“The neighbourhood has an opportunity to voice their opinions on, if you like, the Council’s agenda and they can also raise their neighbourhood issues,” he said.

“This is an attempt to establish some linkage with the community, and whether you call it democracy, or something else… It’s commendable in that at least they’re making some effort.”

In this interview Mr Bronneberg talks about the way the Neighbourhood Forum works.
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Felix Bronneberg - Neighbourhood Forum 5 convener



September NF5 - Keith Tognetti on Civic Plaza

At Neighbourhood Forum 5, community members have the chance to raise issues that are important to them. Keith Tognetti is passionate about the environment, and in September he raised his concerns about the way Wollongong City Plaza is being developed without Illawarra rainforest plants. This was put forward as a motion to the Administrators.

By the time the October meeting came around, Keith was in talks with Council planners about the types of plants being placed in the new plaza.