Pomona Place Plan

Amelia Lorentson223:46

Pomona placemaking plan I'm to place not me making money.

Councillor, today I'd like to present to you the Pomona Place Plan, the final plan for endorsement. The Pomona place program commenced in June 2023 after Pomona was endorsed by Council for the location for the placemaking pilot in February in 2023. This report presents the final Pomona plan for endorsement by Council. The Pomona Place Plan has been prepared in partnership with the Pomona community and is the result three rounds of community engagement. The first round of engagement was undertaken in August till October in 2023 to determine the visions and values of the Pomona community as well as asking the community what made Pomona a great place to live and how we could make it even better. Over 500 people participated in the engagement through a range of activities with 250 people completing the community survey identifying a diverse range of ideas for potential actions in the plan. Also had two workshops with community organisations and we participated in a walk-on country with the Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation. The Pomona Place Plan engagement summary report was endorsed by Council at its meeting in December '27. Second round of community engagement was undertaken in May to June of 2023, sorry, 2024, where the committee were asked to prioritise actions from Round 1 engagement and to confirm the vision statement. The plan, we received over 240 survey responses with approximately 60 participants attending pop-ups and separate workshops were also held with community organisations and the Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation. This then allowed us to prepare the final and draft plan which was then underwent a third round of committee engagement from October 18th to November 17th in 2024. The purpose of this round was really the draft Pomona Place Plan to the community to confirm the visions and actions, reflected their aspirations and to enable community members to nominate to be involved in specific community led actions. Council received 40 online submissions to the place plan as well as some submissions via email. We also heard a workshop with community organisations to discuss implementation. The final command permanent and place plan has been developed based on the community input and responses from all three rounds of community consultation and has been amended considering those submissions from the most recent round. The majority of changes really focused around providing further clarity, further detail around some actions, some functionality and readability of the document and strengthening the issue of quarry trucks moving through the village.

Brian Stockwell0:09

So welcome Councillors and everyone in the gallery to the General Committee Meeting for March 2025. I declare the meeting declare the meeting open. We have all Councillors present except Councillor Wegener is attending via Microsoft Teams and will vote electronically. Now move on to the Acknowledgement of Country and today we're going to consider the Pomona placemaking plan. So I thought it might be appropriate to use the words of Norman bond, the Chair and Director of Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation. And he said, "We acknowledge our ancestors and elders who over thousands of years have cared for country as skilled land changers and place makers with deep knowledge and connection to these landforms, waterways and rainforests. Country is where we connect with each other and our ancestors. It is where we are at peace and find strength and connection with our community." By working together and embracing community, we can protect our shared values and aspirations for a healthy and sustainable future. So I think that's a wonderful sentiment to consider as we move through today's agenda. We next have confirmation of minutes. Would someone like to move the Minutes? That's moved, Councillor. Which minutes are we moving? We're moving the Minutes of the February General Committee Meeting.