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President’s Introduction

The attendance at the AGRA AGM in August was excellent. We believe the count was in the 50's. Two committee members retired due to work pressures and we thank both Graham Malcolm and David Schmidt for their considerable help and support over past years. We welcome new committee member Kevin Cummins who joined the committee at the meeting.

Members of the 2009/10 AGRA Committee are:

Ken Carney President, John Zeccola Treasurer, Serge Yan Assistant Treasurer, Tamsin Bearsley Minute Secretary, David Cree Assistant Minute Secretary, Sam Constantopoulos Vice President & Newsletter Editor and Rene Frighetto Newsletter Advertising Manager. Other committee members are Dan Maloney, Karina Ces and Kevin Cummins. Committee members work on various sub committees, for example Dan and David Cree will be AGRA 's representatives on the COK Sports Ground Steering Committee. While no longer a committee member David Schmidt has agreed to maintain the AGRA Website. Our thanks to David.

The minutes of the AGM will shortly be placed on the AGRA website. As you will remember the President's report was printed in the pre AGM Newsletter however we are considering the possibility of also including the president's PowerPoint presentation on the website as well.

Mark Dreyfus QC our federal MP was an apology. We thank our local State MP's Jenny Lindell and Inga Peulich for attending and contributing to the meeting. This was an excellent opportunity for our state parliamentarians to hear the specific needs of our community and to answer questions during the meeting and to talk to individual residents during refreshments afterwards. Our three local councillors were invited to the meeting. Councillor John Ronke was an apology however both Councillor Donna Bauer and Councillor Trevor Shewan were able to attend. Councillor Bauer chaired the election of the AGRA committee and Councillor Bauer also presented concept plans for the planned Aspendale Gardens Sports Grounds that will be developed on the land specifically purchased by Council situated on the secondary drain behind the primary school. See report. Councillors Bauer and Shewan answered questions from the floor. Senior Sergeant John Pattison from the local police also attended and gave a presentation on criminal activity and hooliganism in our region. Our thanks to both state MP's and local Councillors and Sergeant Pattison from the police for giving their valuable personal time to attend the AGRA AGM.

Kingston Councillor Paul Peulich (Central Ward) attended the meeting for a short time and thanked the AGRA committee for supporting the residents of Dingley in their efforts to convince the Government to meet its past promises to build the Dingley By-Pass.

We also take the opportunity to thank Mr & Mrs Lovell for agreeing to continue auditing our accounts each year.

Your AGRA committee and our community have a very busy and exciting period ahead. So we seek your indulgence if we are not always able to respond immediately to your requests. We always follow up and action requests even if we have to prioritise our workload.

We remind residents that the AGRA Committee meet at 7.30pm on the last Wednesday of every month except for December when there is no meeting. We meet at the Community Centre on Kearney Drive and all residents are welcome to raise a matter or to listen and participate.