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Speaker 1: The council chat time and Boss hamus Riak has rolled in. First,

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Speaker 1: do we have an update on the situation around the

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Speaker 1: Mount Summer's Domain campground yet?

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Speaker 2: I still work in progress. Look, we're good feedback from

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Speaker 2: the community. I think there's about over seventy submissions. I

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Speaker 2: saw that, Yeah, and so they are now being considered

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Speaker 2: by the Mount Summer's Reserve Board. So councils supporting the

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Speaker 2: Reserve Board to make the decisions about their reserve and

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Speaker 2: the campground. But it's really on them, well whether they're

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Speaker 2: the decision making. Yeah, they're to support them to do that.

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Speaker 2: So I know the Reserve Board's about to work through

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Speaker 2: those submissions and they really please the community has responded

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Speaker 2: the way they have and the process will carry on

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Speaker 2: over the next week or two.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I see we've got some special guests in town

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Speaker 1: this week from First Retail Group, Lorraine Nicholson and Chris Wilkinson.

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Speaker 1: What are they doing here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well they're doing this work around the CBD for

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Speaker 2: us and the business and the community to try and

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Speaker 2: understand how our CBD works. What key difference is that

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Speaker 2: I drive a great CBD. They had a bit of

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Speaker 2: a walk around yesterday I got some anecdotal feedback from

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Speaker 2: people they're talking about and they've got a couple of

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Speaker 2: sessions in Fadakati in the event space in the library

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Speaker 2: there today one at ten thirty and one at four

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Speaker 2: thirty that are interested to chat about and think how

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Speaker 2: the CBD for ashburden can be maximized.

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Speaker 1: So who are these sessions designed for? Is this for

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Speaker 1: business owners?

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Speaker 2: Yes, but anyone's welcome. So we'd love to see people

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Speaker 2: who care about their CBD, but business owners in particular,

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Speaker 2: what can be done to keep the CBD a vital,

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Speaker 2: thriving place.

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Speaker 1: What spurred their visit is this in response to business

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Speaker 1: owners asking for this is.

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Speaker 2: A piece of work that we signaled we wanted to do.

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Speaker 2: That can caused a little bit of comment last year

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Speaker 2: and its part of the Economic Development pro Council set

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Speaker 2: asides of money to get an independent perspective on the

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Speaker 2: CBD and how it's working, how it might it might

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Speaker 2: be better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, I always find it interesting there's pressure on

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Speaker 1: council to help drum up local business. So I sort

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Speaker 1: of think that council has done a great job as

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Speaker 1: it is. We've got the CBD streetscape that's the place

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Speaker 1: looking great, there's there's ample parking. Surely now it's on

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Speaker 1: the businesses themselves to give people a reason to come

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Speaker 1: a shop.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and indeed that's a big, big part of it.

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Speaker 2: And this piece of work is to invite in some

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Speaker 2: externalize and heres some experts that don't get tangled up

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Speaker 2: in all the things that people already know and all

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Speaker 2: the reasons why things are what they are, just to

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Speaker 2: have come in and have a lot to talk to people,

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Speaker 2: get different ideas, bring all their own experiences and say well, hey,

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Speaker 2: did you know maybe the businesses could do this and

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Speaker 2: it might be better, or maybe you could think about this,

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Speaker 2: or maybe you can change this. And so it's part

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Speaker 2: of that picture. But yes, in the end, the CBD

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Speaker 2: rises and falls on the environment created by the businesses

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Speaker 2: and the CBD. We we do a bit with the infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: This piece of work is just to get some externalizer

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Speaker 2: and see if it can't be better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they can be pretty beneficial. And Chris and Lorraine,

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Speaker 1: they're also open for one on one catch ups. I

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Speaker 1: understand if there's any local businesses that want to chat

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Speaker 1: to them, this week's the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: That's right, They hear a week and so I've got

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Speaker 2: to I've got to catch up with myself tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at I think I do as well.

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Speaker 2: There we are, so we're looking forward to that. And

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Speaker 2: if anyone would like to book a time with them

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Speaker 2: Economic dot Development at ADC dot g v T dot

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Speaker 2: n Z and you can book a time or great

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Speaker 2: while they're here and have a one on one