So, one of our assignments for TAFE included attending a council meeting, and reporting on one of the issues that was brought up.
I have been so tired lately with TAFE, homework and life in general that going to a council meeting was one of the last things that I wanted to do.
The council meeting was at 7pm, which made things a little hard as well. On Wednesdays we finish TAFE early so it was a little inconvenient knowing at 2pm that we still weren't done for the day, even though we'd left TAFE.
After spending a few hours doing homework, I thought I'd better head over to the council chambers. When I left the house it was miserable and raining, and I hate driving in the rain.
Once I got to the council chambers I walked to what I thought was the front door, and saw a sign saying that their hours were between 8.30am - 4.30pm. Luckily I decided to walk down the street a little, because I realised that there was another entrance.
When I got inside, I noticed that almost half of my TAFE class was there. Everyone looked just as thrilled as I was to be there.
When we got inside, we were no more excited. Most of the issues brought up were neighbour complaints regarding development and complaints about certain roads.
Most of the class were there for probably less than half an hour, but another girl and I wanted to stay to try and get a slightly more interesting story.
The only remotely interesting story that came up was a debate regarding funds to build up the city of Blacktown similar to the CBD.
Certain councillors are trying to convince state government to fund building up the  Blacktown area by giving large companies incentives to bring their business to the Western suburbs.
Their argument there is that the majority of the workforce are from the Western suburbs, and people are sick of having to travel all the way to the city for work each day.
Another councillor debated that even if the large companies did bring their business to Western Sydney, they would still have similar issues regarding public transport, as many of Western Sydney's industrial areas have no train stations, and bus services don't run frequently enough, late, or early enough for people to be able to get to work on time.
One councillor's argument against this, was regarding the city of Blacktown itself. He says that Western Sydney is a rough area, and most people are afraid to be out in Blacktown CBD past 6pm. He even went as far as saying that the only way that they would be able to entice large companies to Western Sydney would be if the entire city of Blacktown was demolished by an earthquake or fire and they were able to build Blacktown CBD from scratch.

Lela xx