What we heard at initial community meetings
- Community – a strong community that works together and looks after each other
- Local knowledge – utilise the community and use their knowledge
- Volunteer/Assist – already a strong culture of volunteering
- Sharing of information – using a variety of ways to get the information out to the community – including social media, local radio and media, and community newsletters
- Healing – having the opportunity to reflect on and share what happened
- Future – building on communities working together, helping them be prepared for any future incidences
- Supporting others
- Prevention – community awareness and training, building and maintaining fire breaks and trails and hazard reduction burns
- Environment – replanting and regeneration, ongoing climate change, focus on the future
- Assistance – evacuation plan development, localised maps (which include where you can get radio, phone, and internet signal), information kits for new residents
- Issue – Too many plans, too many directions, confusion over when to evacuate and where to go
- Support – education for seniors, empowering women, encouraging more volunteers, finding those who are vulnerable,
- Community events – reconnect again after COVID, work together
- Challenges – cost of living, need assistance for older community members, not knowing neighbours, impact on children
- Communication – difficulty in obtaining information and knowing where to go to find it, dedicated officer to field phone calls, reliant on Braidwood FM and Braidwood Bugle, better communication from groups offering services
- Preparedness – emergency check list, being prepared is key
- The plan – available to all residents, provide education on the plan
- Roads and footpaths – better roads, better road signage, safe walking paths, maintenance of roads, access roads
- Communications – telephone upgrade including mobile coverage, lobby Telstra for crisis cell to be set up in emergencies, local aerial (can be a transmitter for mobile), lobby Optus for better coverage
- Services (electricity, hospital) – better electricity, new transformer, generators
- New Council infrastructure – picnic/BBQ areas, playground, air-conditioning for hall, kitchen facilities at some halls
- Council services – more rubbish collections, open transfer stations for longer hours, method of disposing hard rubbish
- Water – bore for constant water, address water security, improve water security
- Evacuation facilities – distinct point/place to gather, upgraded evacuation centres with three-phase power and basic supplies
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