• Using an accessible, quick method of online engagement to encourage participation.
• Multiple methods of engagement, including:
• Online engagement
• In-person engagement at a pop up outside Frankston South Community and Recreation Centre
• Enabling translation into any language on Engage Frankston

• Simple explanations and project information on Engage Frankston.
• Centre staff were available to support participation for the duration of the engagement period.
• Promoting the engagement via a range of methods for multiple audiences including email notifications to Engage Frankston members (675 recipients), letters/postcards delivered to residents nearby, social posts, and signage.
• Community centre communications via their newsletter, social media, and signage (QR code scanned 57 times).

The community input will be used to report back to Council, as a naming authority, with the community feedback and seek a decision to approve the proposed name and proceed with formal naming with GNV.

• Engagement closed on 27 March 2025. This naming project is currently on hold while Council carefully considers the feedback received from the community.
• Further updates on how feedback has been considered in the naming of this feature and the timing of the report to Council for decision will be provided to this page as the project progresses.

This question was answered by 139 contributors. The name was supported by 84 contributors and not supported by 55 contributors. "Very supportive" was the most selected option (71).

For contributors who selected that they did not support the name, they could select up to three reasons why they felt this way. This question was answered by 53 contributors.

Reasons provided for being unsupportive were:

• It does not represent public interest or have a long-term benefit to the community (41)
• I do not like this name (5)
• I do not support commemorating this event, person or place (4)
• It could create confusion for transport, communication and mail services (3)
• The name is not relevant to the local area (2)
• It does not recognise and use Aboriginal languages in naming agreement from Traditional Owner group(s) (1)

The most selected reason for being unsupportive was "It does not represent public interest or have a long-term benefit to the community" To better understand this response, comments about this reason have been analysed, and can be summarised as:

• "Recreation" more accurately describes what is on offer at the centre (8)
• Concern that removing "recreation" from the name will mean recreation activities will be less supported at the centre or removed from the centre (5)
• Name change not needed (2)

Other reasons given

• "Many of the activities that run here are recreational. There will be too much confusion in the community as to what is offered."
• "Waste of money"
• "Unnecessary"
• "Indicates it will no longer support recreational activities"
• "I believe the name change is to remove support and maintenance for recreational usage"
• "Keep recreation" (2)
• "How will people know recreational programs run at the centre?"
• "Came to centre as knew it had recreation"

• Yes, people who identified as women were more likely to support the proposed name, while people who identified as men were divided almost equally between being supportive or unsupportive.
• People who identified as women or non-binary were 67% in support of the proposed name with 33% being unsupportive.
• People who identified as men were more divided with 49% being supportive of the proposed name and 51% being unsupportive.
• 43% of men and 21% of women who did not support the proposed name selected the reason "It does not represent public interest or have a long-term benefit to the community"