On the Nature of Your Local Council

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A video clarifying the events around the City of Greater Geelong Council's scrapping of the Belmont Bike lanes project. Council was Lawfully Noticed by me both at the April 30, 2019 regular council meeting, where the Council originally intended to approve the Belmont bike lanes project. At that meeting, when I took the microphone and addressed the Council, I Noticed them, verbally, as to their commercial liability over the project, in that, should the traders along that route suffer major financial losses, or even go to the wall, Council, as an organisation, could expect the traders to make claims against the Council, and against each councilor individually.
My address to that meeting, at approximately 42 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFg_adjCitk
Council again sought to approve the bike lanes project on July 26, 2022, having deferred the vote for all that time.
On that day I issued a written Lawful Notice, via email, again holding the entire Council to their commercial liability. The approval was again deferred, and then the contract was subsequently scrapped, the local newspaper, the Geelong Advertiser reporting the scrapping on August 22.
The only other effort was a petition that was read out in Parliament on behalf of the traders along the bike lane route, petitions having no legal force t all.

Some pertinent links:

Victorian Government compensation precedents:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mcdonald-s-demands-super-size-compensation-for-losing-busiest-city-store-20190626-p521kd.html
Provan's Hardware compensation:
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/state-forced-to-pay-millions-more-in-east-west-link-compensation-20190618-p51ytd.html
A Foreign Military Occupation-Rom Stewart:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IDJOXn2CPfgm/

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