00:00Members will be aware that Council provides and maintains bus shelters across the City and District with the majority of these located within rural communities.
00:07These shelters are a vital component and connect rural communities and are in use on a daily basis.
00:12In consideration of this, Council has received a request from the Brady and District Alterscross Development Association to enhance five existing bus shelters.
00:20The Association has secured funding to take forward this project on a similar basis to previous schemes approved by Council.
00:26Most recently, a number of shelters within the Ballyard and Chantalo areas.
00:30The Association are keen to engage with the communities in each of the respective areas to design beach book artworks that reflect local diversity
00:37and have included details of this within their application to Council and closed as Appendix 1.
00:42The Association have secured funding for the scheme and are keen that Council support the initiative by requesting that Council agree to the enhancement of the selected bus shelters.
00:51Some minor preparatory works will need to be carried out to three of the proposed shelters as they display some graffiti rust and require maintenance
00:59and Council will undertake this as part of the planned maintenance work.
01:02All enhancement work will be carried out by the groups connected to the Association at no cost to Council.
01:07The artwork designs will be directly painted onto the shelters by local artist Carol Porter from UV Arts.
01:13As again, details of this are closed with Appendix 1.
01:17On completion, this scheme will significantly improve the visual appearance of these shelters at minimal expense to Council for the benefit of residents and visitors.
01:25The local community group will carry out the enhancement work and use local groups to maintain the bus shelters when complete.
01:31Council technical staff will monitor the enhancement work to ensure the structural integrity of each bus shelter,
01:37and the design and the works are agreed as between the Association and Council.
01:41And members are therefore asked to endorse and support the application by Bridian District Dr. Scott's Development Association with the Guarantee Enhancement of Five Bus Shelters within the Fallen Area.
01:51Thanks, Chair.
01:53Thank you, Conor.
01:55Alderman Middleton.
01:57Thank you, Chair, for letting me in.
01:59And thank you, Conor, for the report, which I'm very, very happy to propose and endorse.
02:05I am so excited after over a year since I was first approached by young people and Georgina Key McCarter to see this project being so close to becoming a reality.
02:14So for context, I was initially approached by young people, which I think is just the best thing ever.
02:20who wanted to engage in a project around civic pride and Brady to redo the dilapidated bus shelter in a manner that reflected theirs and the area's culture, their heritage and their identity.
02:33I have worked closely with Georgina and the young people since, even when I was ill in hospital.
02:39This project means so much to our young people.
02:43This project has now been expanded to include other areas across the Fallen.
02:47And this project has brought young people together to create and present their designs, which will be formalized and installed by an artist across Brady, Claudie, Eglinton, Ena and New Buildings.
02:58And I know there's a Letters and Donagh group involved also, but they don't have a bus shelter.
03:02So major thanks to our young people district wide for their vision and their passion for the beautiful Fallen.
03:08To Council's grantee team and to Graeme McCormack for all his help.
03:13I just cannot wait to see the finished design when they're on the bus shelters and I can't wait to do the rural trail.
03:21Well done to all our young people and all involved.
03:24I am so, so, so proud of you all.
03:27Thank you, Alderman and Councillor Fleming.
03:30Thank you, Chair.
03:32Happy to second the proposal.
03:35I want to say thanks to all of the groups that were involved in this excellent project.
03:40And I'm looking forward to seeing the finished articles.
03:43Thank you, Councillor Fleming.
03:45And my own note for being councillor out there too.
03:49It's a good project.
03:52There's been projects done somewhere in Straff Oil, you know, where the bus stops were updated by the U-boats and the history of the area, you know.
04:00And it's a very good thing.
04:02And at the time people said, oh, they'll be still damaged and all the rest.
04:06They haven't been damaged since they went down, which is a really good thing, you know.
04:10So thank you.
04:12Sorry, Councillor Donagh.
04:15Apologies, Chair.
04:16I didn't plan.
04:17But reading, scooting through there, there's, there are Shantone's down there.
04:22But there's, am I right?
04:23There's no bus shelter.
04:24And, and if that's true, what's the story?
04:27Is there plans to put a bus shelter or maybe get it done there to join with the hours?
04:33Through you Chair members, we can find out, like the, we always have a, a list of areas that,
04:39bus shelters are very limited budget that we have.
04:42And we try and do the best that we can with, with the limited budget that we have, but we can certainly look and do that.
04:48I'm not, I'm just not sure today.
04:50Maybe if there isn't a bus shelter, maybe there's a wall or something else there that maybe they could get tied into too.
04:58It was on for Council officers to, to look at.
05:01And.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Happy to consider it.
05:04That's, I believe it's what's happening.
05:06Uh, because you're only, uh, the, uh, there's an only community centre and community, and they're engaging in it, you know.
05:14They're not so, I think it's, they did a, yeah.
05:16Yeah.
05:18The story, maybe.
05:19It, they, yeah.
05:20The, they, yeah.
05:21Itazione
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