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Come to Gold Coast Council Meetings at Bundall if you possibly can--Please attend and tell and bring others. It is worth keeping, under public scrutiny, the Councillors who gave away under licence, for a dollar a year, a site worth ten million and a site, with its 35 year flowering as a haven and refuge, worth infinitely more. We have contacted the Turf Club (several times), as advised by Councillor Donna Gates, former Turf Club Board Member, asking them to receive the over 39,000 signatures against filling the Lake. This is a remarkable number. We return to endeavour to present them to Cr Donna Gates, who found herself unable to to appear for a few minutes, before or after the last Council Meeting, to accept a sheet of paper with the screen photo shot of the (then) 38,340 signatures. Councils all over South East Queensland have come under scrutiny via the Crime and Corruption Commission. The saga of how a Lake came to be given over for a carpark, via Councillors, many of whom had gratis membership of the club , has been submitted, along with a number of other matters, to this Investigative Body, which has now turned its sights upon the nature of governance in this, our Golden City..

Some Councillors, who survive community scrutiny, may wish to try again for paid public office at the elections in a year and a half. Councillors Peter Young, Daphne McDonald and Bob La Castra have been staunch supporters of the Lake. Councillor Dawn Crichlow is now on record as saying that in the light of facts now known she would not have granted the licence to the Turf Club. We only need four more votes to rescind the ten year licence to the Turf Club.Please lobby the following and have others to support this . Councillors Karen Boulton, William Owen-Jones, Glenn Tozer, Paul Taylor, Gail O'Neill and Pauline Young have been contacted by Wildlife Q GC & Hinterland re this, They may wish to be re-elected. Crs Cameron Caldwell, Hermann Vorster, Donna Gates, Tom Tate who spoke for the motion and the mover of the motion to condemn our Lake, Gary Baildon, are not considered worth lobbying, although some may wish to try. However, we only need four votes so please email and phone.

Boulton 0429 722 952 & 55 816 434 division4@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Owen-Jones 0412 242 622 & 55 828 555 division2@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Tozer 0419 558 685 & 55 811 883 division9@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Taylor 0439 226 521 & 55 811 883 division10@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

O'Neill 0438 810 023 & 55 815 275 division14@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Pauline Young 0475 677 181 & 55 817 282 division12@goldcoast.qld.gov.au It would not be in the least surprising if seats were lost over this. The issue of the giveaway of public assets and the trashing of our environment have unseated other publicly employed representatives. If there is an objection that the turf Club will go for costs and repayment it is needful to remember that they already get $50,000 of ratepayers money and rental terms for Traintech. Ensure Councillors give their answer as to whether they would support a motion to rescind.And publicize in letters to editor, their responses.