Bally Hooley railway station.

To make way for the shared path upgrade the Oaks railway station was demolished this week bringing us one step closer to getting a wider and straighter path. The narrowest part of the shared path still remaining is from the entrance to the Country Club to our North and the Captain Cook Highway well to our South. With the now omnipresent electric scooters the widening of the path has become more urgent. Costs for this project come from a grant.
Our section is Priority A and is one of seven offshoots to the Wangetti Trail.
The new path should be of benefit to owners allowing us to add more privacy in the form of plants along our front on Port Douglas Road.
That stretch where the station was will also become the entrance to the Port Pacific Retirement Facility our neighbours on the Northern boundary.

Spring has sprung

Pied Imperial Pigeons have returned heralding the start of Spring. An Australian native bird this sub-especies (Torresian) of Pied Imperial Pigeons spend winter in the Milne Bay area of South-eastern tip of the Papua New Guinea mainland but breed here. Our local birds nest on Woody Island of Low Isles. Scientists have been doing a count at the end of the breeding season since 1994 and come up with 20,000 to 25,000 individuals.
Soon to join them will be another Australian native Metallic Starlings. Passage migrants have put in a showing particularly the cuckoos, Brush Cuckoo, Eastern Koel and Channel Billed Cuckoo all three of which are often called stormbirds. October and November will be prime time for visiting birdwatchers

What is a "special resolution"?

I have left this here because it may be one of the most important decisions owners may need to make at the upcoming Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) with regard to how we are to conduct Body Corporate Committee elections:

There are 3 aspects for a motion to pass by special resolution.
1. At least two-thirds of the votes cast are in favour of the motion; and
2. The number of votes counted against the motion are not more than 25% of the number of lots included in the scheme (in our case 34.7); and
3. The total of the contribution schedule lot entitlements for the lots for which votes are counted against the motion is not more than 25% of the total of the contibution schedule lot entitlements for all the lots included in the scheme (in our case 500 with most lot entitlements being 13 = 38.5).
It is up to us to determine if the wording of the motion is fair and reasonable in the circumstances of the scheme.