Minutes for meeting 26th of April 2016 at the Austral Hotel Korumburra Meeting Commenced 7.10 pm Present Luke Phipps David Rasmus Joy Saynor Travis Longmuir Max Semken Brian Hess Andrew McEwen Mary-Ann van Ballekom Simon Helps Apology Chris Canton Bret Levenspiel Confirmation of Minutes The minutes of the previous meeting were endorsed General business Luke Phipps Luke was welcomed to the group. He had been invited by Chris Positive assessment of rail Top tier accounting firm cost of rail lot of positive for Australia Regional Public Transport Plan The regional transport plan is due to be released shortly. Resolved to wait the report and then to present a submission to the Report practically proposing a southern Gippsland ring route between the towns with a map and press release for papers Web site functionality In the absence of Chris and Brett the issues of the web site functionality and the relationship to the Facebook site was held over. Talk to them to see where they are up to Solving South East Melbourne’s Transport Problems The majority of the meeting was a discussion of the draft paper Andrew had prepared. A revised paper is attached for comment and feedback. On the basis of the feedback a third version will be prepared and sent out for further comments Next meeting Thursday 19th May 7pm Austral Hotel Korumburra Meeting Closed 8:35 pm "Stop Fiddling With The Problem" - 'Solving South East Melbourne's Transport Problems' Documents are attached in image files to the post available via Facebook. Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1034659023275010&id=551962224878028 Message sent on behalf of the South & West Gippsland Transport Group. "The South & West Gippsland Transport Group aims to improve public transport. It is advocating the return of rail services to Leongatha, to establish a rail loop between Cranbourne and Pakenham and to improve bus services between towns and Melbourne”.