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Speaker 1: Yesterday on the show, we spoke to the Nightcliff Dragon's

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Speaker 1: Footy Club, who raised concerns about the oval at Sanderson

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Speaker 1: Middle School after it was ripped apart by huns. Now

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Speaker 1: they're calling for well for other infrastructure. They'd like a

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Speaker 1: clubhouse there as well, but in the first instance, bollards

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Speaker 1: and irrigation with the oval now unable to be used

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Speaker 1: by hundreds of kids who train their due to safety risks.

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Speaker 1: But we also know, as I've just said, it's a

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Speaker 1: middle school, so there's no doubt that it has an

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Speaker 1: impact on the students there as well. And joining us

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Speaker 1: on the line is Sanders And Middle School's chair Mark Ferguson.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Mark, Good morning Kate and you listen.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Now, Mark, tell me how much damage has been done

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Speaker 1: at the oval on this occasion.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've got two big ovals there and both of

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Speaker 3: them have been ripped up with as you've seen the

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Speaker 3: pictures with tire marks hooning around, and just what they've

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Speaker 3: done is they dug up owls grass area on the oval.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that has an impact in a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways really at those ovals, not only for

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Speaker 1: the football club, but also for students. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: that there are outdoor physical education activities that are meant

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Speaker 1: to happen on the oval at different times.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, definitely, Katie. We've also got so we're trying

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Speaker 3: to get as much community engagement as we can at

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Speaker 3: s Anderson and we've also got the shack. The shack

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Speaker 3: actually is there usually after school as well helping the kids.

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Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, they look after the kids until the

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Speaker 3: parents come home and basically they can't use the oval either.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you know, anybody that's got will a son

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Speaker 1: or daughter, the ability to go out and kick the

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Speaker 1: footy and stuff is something that they actually love being

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Speaker 1: able to do.

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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, But it has been going on this year

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Speaker 3: and we've had a couple of incidents of which we

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Speaker 3: have reported to the Department of Education with a lot

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Speaker 3: of people, where we've had a couple of stolen cars

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Speaker 3: comes through a recess, so it's actually a very big

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Speaker 3: risk for our students. We've actually put in a lot

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Speaker 3: of work to actually get funding.

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Speaker 4: To be able to put the bollards up and we've

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Speaker 4: asked the billards, we've put a risk assessment in. We

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Speaker 4: actually I think last week we actually did have people

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Speaker 4: come out and do a full risk assessment as well.

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Speaker 3: So it is moving forward good at a very small rate.

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Speaker 2: Well do you know what this needs to happen, and

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Speaker 2: it needs to happen fast. I mean, Mark, what.

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Speaker 1: You just said there that you've had situations at the

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Speaker 1: school where stolen vehicles have driven on to the school grounds.

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Speaker 2: That is like, that's horrifying stuff.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it is absolutely And I know for a fact

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Speaker 3: that our principal, all the star, all the students and

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Speaker 3: staff are very adverse to this and has after our

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Speaker 3: students something chronically. We have engaged Kate Warden to assist

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Speaker 3: us in in getting this moved a bit quicker, and

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Speaker 3: she's doing a fantastic joal but trying to get this

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Speaker 3: move really quickly.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, it needs to happen, and it does

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Speaker 1: need to happen quickly because it is a safety risk

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Speaker 1: to students. So I know I would be really concerned.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like the school's doing everything they can to

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Speaker 1: try to make sure that kids are safe. But when

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Speaker 1: you're talking about idiots, it's not even as strong enough word.

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Speaker 1: You know, driving onto that oval then and potentially putting other.

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Speaker 2: People's lives at risk.

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Speaker 1: Obviously the damage is something that you don't want to see,

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Speaker 1: but the risk to life is fundamental.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, That's why we've tried to move on this

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Speaker 3: as quick as possible as the school because as you know,

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Speaker 3: we don't actually have the fund in the school to

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Speaker 3: be able to put ball art here.

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Speaker 2: No, but also it's a public school.

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Speaker 1: Mark like, it's a public school, so at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, it shouldn't be you guys having a

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Speaker 1: foot any kind of bill for it.

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Speaker 3: So we have to go through the process of going

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Speaker 3: through diffluent Education department to put in the works, to

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Speaker 3: put in all the paperwork, and then it has to

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Speaker 3: be assessed and you know, all the red tape.

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Speaker 1: Yea to me and I'm thinking out loud here, but

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Speaker 1: it just it surprises me. I get that there needs

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Speaker 1: to be red tape. I get that there has to

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Speaker 1: be boxes ticked with various things. You can't be spending

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Speaker 1: money willy nilly, but when you're talking about safety out

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Speaker 1: of school, there is nothing more important.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know what we're trying to do is

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Speaker 3: we're trying to minimize the risks for our students and

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Speaker 3: our teachers, for the community, and we really want Nightcliff

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Speaker 3: Dragons to be able to use that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Base, we really would love.

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Speaker 3: To see Nightcliff Dragons use it. But at the moment,

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Speaker 3: because of what as you put an idiot being a

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Speaker 3: little bit down there, the idiots are just chewing up

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Speaker 3: all this graph, which is a risk to not only

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Speaker 3: the community, the Knights of Dragons, but all of us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I know they'd also spoken to us about irrigation

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Speaker 1: there as well. I mean, is that something that you

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Speaker 1: guys are keen to see to see happens so that

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Speaker 1: you can keep those grounds lush.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So we've actually put after the graph has actually

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Speaker 3: been dug up and all that we actually put Emergent

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Speaker 3: works in with the department as well, yep, to be

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Speaker 3: able to get the irrigation and the oval fix for

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Speaker 3: what happened on Sundays. So they're actually working quite fast

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Speaker 3: on that at the moment of.

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Speaker 1: Department, Well, please keep us up to date, let us

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Speaker 1: know how things go. I mean, we had the Education

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Speaker 1: Minister Mark Monaghan on the show earlier this morning. For

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Speaker 1: the week that was, we also had the oppositions Jared

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Speaker 1: Mayleean I said, will you guys, you know commit to

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Speaker 1: it as an election commitment. They obviously they were both

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Speaker 1: definitely amenable to that. But by the sounds of it,

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Speaker 1: you guys are working pretty hard on this as it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying as a counsel, we're trying really hard

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Speaker 3: to fast track this process. Our principal is doing everything

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Speaker 3: he could, Kate's doing everything she could. But hopefully we'll

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Speaker 3: have a resolution before school comes back.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I hope so too.

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Speaker 1: Can you keep me up to date, excuse me over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, because you know, if there

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Speaker 1: is any hold ups or if you're facing any roadblocks,

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Speaker 1: let us know. And yeah, we'll do our best to

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Speaker 1: try and support you as required.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Kate and I would like to say thank you

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Speaker 3: very much for supporting us this week in regards to

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Speaker 3: this damage that they've done. It is a risk to

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Speaker 3: our students, it is a risk to our community, and

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Speaker 3: we're trying to mitigate that risk so much that we

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Speaker 3: want to keep everyone safe and we want to have

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Speaker 3: a very good community base in sanders And Middle School.

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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, And you know I spoke about this,

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Speaker 1: did I like you think when we talk about you know,

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Speaker 1: healthy activities for our young people to be doing it.

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Speaker 1: Sounds as though there's plenty of good things happening there

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Speaker 1: at Sanderson in terms of, you know, the footy being

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Speaker 1: able to be played, the shacks there, You've.

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Speaker 2: Got all sorts of stuff happening there.

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Speaker 1: So you've got to make sure that you know, we're

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Speaker 1: not only able to keep the kids safe, but able

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Speaker 1: to have at a location that you know that's nice

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Speaker 1: and able to be used.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely and you know what, we're all here for the

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Speaker 3: student tank community. We just need to get this up and.

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Speaker 1: Running absolutely well. Mark, let us know how you go.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for having a chat with me

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Speaker 1: today as well. Thank you, no worries at all,