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RESIDENTS across Ipswich will soon be given the opportunity to voice their concerns or frustrations in person to a couple of the city’s elected representatives.
Division 3 councillors Marnie Doyle and Andrew Fechner are set to appear at local businesses across the region in coming months.
The pair will visit multiple sites over a five-week period, including Booval Fair and Ipswich Central Library, as part of council’s ‘Community Matters’ program.
Visits to Coles Silkstone, Leichhardt One Mile Community Centre, Riverview Community Centre and Redbank Plaza have also been scheduled.
The program will start on June 14, winding up little more than a month later on July 19.
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Subscriber only IPSWICH City Council has adopted a new corporate plan which will guide the strategic direction of the organisation and its 1400 staff over the next five years. From July 1, iFuture will replace the existing Advance Ipswich community plan and the 2017-2022 corporate plan to serve as the council s guiding light. It includes a wider plan for the next 20 years as Ipswich s population of 233,000 is expected to more than double to 558,000 by 2041. Acting CEO Sonia Cooper. The council engaged just over 2000 people to help form the plan and this included the city s nine councillors and 478 council staff. The plan is split into four themes with broad goals the council wants to achieve by 2026.
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A POPULAR Indian restaurant in the heart of the CBD will remain in the heritage-listed building it has called home for more than a decade after councillors voted for a new lease to be offered to the business owner.
Indian Mehfil’s lease for the council-owned building at 116 Brisbane Street was due to expire on June 30.
The council will now enter into a new five-year lease with owner Raj Sharma to remain in the building built in 1878. Priyanka Sharma and Baljit Sanger ahead of the 2019 Diwali Festival. The Sharmas organise the annual event.
All councillors voted in favour of this option with the exception of Division 3’s Andrew Fechner, who was out of the room due to a conflict of interest related to his family’s business in the city centre.
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WITH a huge amount of food scraps ending up in landfill when they don’t need to be, Ipswich City Council is offering its green waste service for free for residents for a limited time in a bid to curb an alarming level of wastage.
The council is falling well behind its landfill diversion target set by the state government.
Ipswich City Council currently offers a paid service with a choice of either a 240 litre or 360 litre green waste wheelie bin, which costs $20 a quarter and is collected every two weeks. Green bins were introduced in Ipswich in 2011.
The lease for the building is due to expire this year. Council officers outlined how the 143-year-old building be could used as a bistro or cafe to compliment the Ipswich Art Gallery next door instead