Tweed Shire meet your Candidates

What is Your Main Motivation for Running for Council?

We’d love to hear what drives you to pursue a position on the local council.

Tweed is beautiful & has much to offer. Having right the balance of liveability & social scale mixed to cater to the growth & economic stability to provide a good mix of jobs & business through a diverse range of outcomes. The building sector & industrial opportunities enable families the ability to live & work in Tweed. Keeping Balance is essential. The Roads Rates & Rubbish & our environment are Vitally important, being rational in our maintenance of Councils input to caring, experience is important.

What Do You See as the Most Urgent Issue in Your Electorate, and How Will You Address It if Elected to Council? If not already mentioned, please outline what you consider to be the most pressing issue in your community and your plan of action to tackle it. Tweeds Water security is vitally important, it is only when dry periods or drought occurs do we see the community concerns, it vital we add additional capacity. The shire keep in step with growth of the Tweed population & businesses needs to ensure water supply can maintain our population. Similarly economics are like tis too. Seeing a step up in understanding that jobs are needed to keep up with the growth of the Tweed.

Anything Extra You’d Like to Let Voters Know

About You: Feel free to share additional information about yourself that you believe is important for voters to know. Please note that responses may be edited for length. There are many objectives I hope to have council support. A Holiday Park at crams farm would be a lovely tourism initiative. Extending the Northern Rivers rail trail to Condong deserves investigation. Tweeds traffc & fows deserve additional attention to create better fow. The repairs of our Tweed roads need urgent attention. Please vote Group F is a below the line, vote requiring you to vote 1 to 4 at minimum. Help Me, Help You & Your Families love the Tweed

Kimberly Hone

Your Name and Length of Time You’ve Lived in the Electorate: Kimberly Hone. 7 years.

What is Your Main Motivation for Running for Council?

I’ve always had a commitment to community service. After being heavily involved in serving my community during the ‘22’ foods and witnessing the pro-longed recovery, I realised that I can make a greater contribution to my community by being a councillor. Which gives me the opportunity to refect the vast and diverse opinions of my constituents.

What Do You See as the Most Urgent Issue in Your Electorate, and How Will You Address It if Elected to Council?

Tweed Shire has a Growth Housing Management strategy on public exhibition now which is seeking community feedback. I encourage my constituents to make submissions. I’d like to open the conversations around medium density buildings which are close to community necessities such as public transport, health care and food outlets.

The biggest cost to affordable housing is the price of land. Council should be working with our major land holder to release more affordable land. This can be achieved by bringing the block sizes down to 250sqm. Resulting in a more affordable price for a block of land, helping young people buy their frst home or retirees to downsize.

I have also committed to supporting second continued next page dwellings on rural land and also building entitlements on rural blocks that at present do not have entitlements. This will bring us in line with all adjoining shires (Tweed Councillors are still in the dark ages). This doesn’t put pressure on existing infrastructure, keeps families together and the cost of living down.

Sustainable growth means successful businesses, jobs and opportunities. To achieve this we need employment generating land. Which will allow small business expansion and jobs. In the Tweed there is limited capacity for our younger generation to get stable employment exasperating the cost of living on families.

Anything Extra You’d Like to Let Voters Know About You:

I am a qualifed wildlife ranger and worked for Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Therefore, I understand the responsibility of maintaining our unique caldera environment and recognise that sustainability and good decision making, we can achieve this outcome.

Introducing the Greens Candidates for the upcoming Local Government Elections 2024 is both exciting and heartening. On 14 September, we have a pivotal chance to transform our community—if you’re ready for change, it’s time to

Olympian Scott Westcott and Paralympian Katie Kelly founded the Casino Fun Run in 2013 to bring professional fun runs to regional areas that often missed out on such events. Since its inception, participation in the Northern Rivers region has grown each year, attracting runners from across the area.

In 2024, the Casino Fun Run is set to become Australia’s most inclusive country fun run, with the introduction of fully accessible courses and a new ‘all-abilities’ race category. This year’s event will also feature New York Marathon runner Eileen Byers as the Casino Fun Run Ambassador and has secured Achieve

Australia as the new Naming Rights Partner.

The Achieve Australia Casino Fun Run will take place on Sunday, 15 September 2024, starting at 8 AM from Queen Elizabeth Park. Participants can choose to compete as runners or enjoy the course at their own pace, walking, jumping, or strolling through Casino’s streets.

“This year, the Fun Run is more accessible than ever,” says Katie Kelly OAM PLY. “People of all ages and abilities can choose from 2km, 5km, and 10km courses, including the new ‘all-abilities’ race category.”

The ‘all-abilities’ race category allows participants to compete against others with similar needs. Kelly emphasized the event’s mission to encourage people of all ages and abilities to get active, particularly children, and to foster community spirit.

The Fun Run also includes competitions for schools, with trophies awarded to the primary and secondary schools with the most participants in the 2km and 5km events. The top three male and female students will receive medals, and there’s a special trophy for the fastest teacher.

The 2024 Fun Run features fully accessible courses, with fat streets and temporary tiles over grassy areas to accommodate wheelchairs and prams.

Kelly and Westcott, who are committed to bringing more sporting events to regional areas, expressed gratitude to the event organizers, including Peta Moloney, Casino Little Athletics NSW, and Richmond Valley Council, for their efforts in expanding the Fun Run to include the entire community.

This year’s event ambassador, Eileen Byers, a Bundjalung/ Wakka Wakka woman, and mentor, encourages other mothers to participate. Byers, one of 12 Indigenous athletes who represented Australia in the 2015 New York Marathon, brings her experience and passion for running to the event.

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