COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
HEADED ITEM NO.
HEADED ITEM: N. Noonan
Have Your Say Update
REPLY:
The deadline for submissions for €300k Have Your Say - Clondalkin passed on April 9th with the Council receiving 230 entries, an increase of 70 on the 2017 version of Have Your Say. A series of meetings were then carried out, first between Senior Management and then with the Steering Group, in which they considered all of the submissions by members of the public. These were assessed and then presented as a recommended shortlist for approval at the full Council meeting on Monday, May 14th.
Voting was scheduled to open following acceptance of the shortlisted projects by the Council’s elected members and is scheduled to close just before midnight on Sunday May 27th. Voting is being carried out online through the Have Your Say website (https://haveyoursay.southdublin.ie/) and in venues on specific dates and times throughout the Clondalkin Electoral Area.
Those are:
Clondalkin Civic Offices – Monday, 21/05 – 9.00am to 5.00pm
Clondalkin Library – Monday, 21/05 – 4.00pm to 7.00pm
Rathcoole Community Centre – Monday, 21/05 – 4.00pm to 7.00pm
Newcastle Community Centre – Monday, 21/05 – 4.00pm to 7.00pm
Neilstown Community Centre – Monday, 21/05 – 4.00pm to 7.00pm
Council staff members will be present during the alloted voting periods and all ballot boxes will be locked throughout, only opened once they have been returned to County Hall on Tuesday, May 22nd. Current communications are based around promoting the opportunity to vote and encorporates local press (Clondalkin Echo, Clondalkin News and Rathcoole & Saggart News), The Buzz community newsletter, promotion in county bulildings, advertising on bus shelters and social media, including paid advertising specifically targeting the Clondalkin Electoral Area.
A further meeting of the Participatory Budgeting Steering Group is set for Wednesday, May 30th, to review the results of the vote. This will be followed by the results night on Wednesday, June 6th in the Round Tower, Clondalkin. Invites for this event will be issued to elected members, community groups, special guests and individuals who submitted ideas. Both a photographer and videographer will be on hand to capture the event and press have been notified in advance.
Though the quality was very high, it was necessary to exclude submissions based on the agreed criteria. Common reasons for exclusion included; the project idea already being considered or developed under another programme (Playspace Programme, Corkagh Park or Camac Studies, for example), the cost of the proposal exceeding €300,000, where the proposal included ongoing costs beyond the annual budget provision, if the proposed site was not in public ownership, or if there was no public land available to accommodate the proposal, and if the proposal was outside of the remit of South Dublin County Council. Proposals for Rathcoole Park were unfortnately excluded due to works scheduled by Irish Water within the park during 2018 and 2019, meaning any proposal would fall outside of the timescale for this initiative.