Wednesday 7 October 2020
Griffith City Council is calling on residents to help provide feedback for a survey asking how best to increase customer comfort in the main street during summer.
Rising temperatures and an increase in heat wave activity in the future could mean much of Griffith's commercial strip will be too hot to comfortably walk along.
In an effort to address this issue Council is submitting a grant application to the Increasing Resilience to Climate Change Grant Round 3 to create an inter-council climate resilience program that includes mobile climate respite stations which will have facilities included to help reduce heat stress during summer.
Griffith Mayor, Councillor John Dal Broi said, these stations can be used at community or sporting events as well in the CBD and other areas around our region.
"We have partnered in principle with Carrathool Shire Council and Murrumbidgee Council as well as the RDA Riverina and the Cancer Council Riverina in order to broaden the impact of the program," said Cr Dal Broi
"Acting now to cool down our City will mean shoppers, diners and visitors can continue to comfortably travel around our commercial precinct for years to come."
Residents are urged to take the short survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/ClimateRes
