THE deadline to vote for the Pigeon Valley Urban Improvement Precinct to be established officially as a public/private partnership is drawing near. Local Glenwood residents have been pledging their interest and support for the formation of the Pigeon Valley Urban Improvement Precinct (PVUIP), and the deadline to vote has been set for October 30, when voting will close.
On Thursday, August 18, a crowd of over 220 local residents gathered at Glenwood Boys’ High School to hear a detailed presentation of the inner workings of the proposed Urban Improvement Precinct and had the opportunity to vote after the meeting.
Nick Alcock and Athol Wesselink, two of the initiators of the Pigeon Valley Urban Improvement Precinct, fielded numerous questions sent via an SMS portal around accountability, affordability, security, and privacy matters, and most of the answers to those concerns have been listed on the website for governance and transparency’s sake.
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Glenwood resident Karen Brokensha said that since that evening, the committee has been hard at work, networking with street representatives and neighbours to inform, inspire and encourage them to vote in favour of the public/private partnership.
“A meet and greet and voting session took place at the KZNSA Art Gallery in Glenwood to make it as easy as possible for residents to vote. Another initiative to make voting easy is the availability of information, voting forms, and voting boxes at local coffee shops. This also provides a great opportunity to connect with one another and support local coffee shops!” she said.
Brokensha says that local ward councillor Sakhile Mngadi was present at the public meeting in August and encouraged all present to vote in favour of the Pigeon Valley UIP, saying, “Please support this because if we do nothing, nothing will change!”
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“We are hosting various pop-up sessions in the next three weeks, and residents can reach out to me for their street/flat representative details to ensure they are getting regular updates and communication, as I send pop-up details to the 40 street/flat representatives for them to send to residents,” said Brokensha.
Forms to vote can also be downloaded from the website below or emailed to admin@pigeonvalleyuip.durban. They can be dropped in the voting box at the Citadel, 394 Esther Roberts Road (above the Glenwood Bakery), or can be completed on the digital app on the street-rep cellphones.
For more information, go to www.pigeonvalleuip.durban/Voting Process
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