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The issue of pedestrian access over Monkittee Bridge could addressed in the first Ordinary Meeting of Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council.
Council will hold its first Ordinary Meeting on Wednesday, after Tim Overall was elected Mayor and Trevor Hicks Deputy Mayor last Wednesday.
The narrow footbridge over Monkittee Creek Braidwood has long worried families living to the north of Braidwood.
Kids and parents with prams must cross the creek on a narrow path, not designed as a footpath, and a continue uphill on unpaved rocky path, all within inches of passing highway traffic.
Councillors Peter Bray and Trudy Taylor will move that the council receive a report addressing options for improved pedestrian access and pedestrian crossing safety over Monkittee Bridge on Wallace Street, and consider including funding in the 2017-2020 delivery program.
Councillor Peter Marshall will move that council webcasts be made downloadable, and that council make councillors declarations of interests available online.
Several reports will also be received by council, including those relating to developments, the adoption of a resourcing strategy and the replacement of Back Creek Bridge on the Cooma Road, Braidwood, the Queanbeyan Head Office and the demolition of the former Queanbeyan City Council administration buildings.
The meeting follows a confusing Extraordinary Meeting, in which councillors spent a significant portion of the meeting ironing out the differences in protocol between the former Queanbeyan City Council and Palerang Council.