With the local coffers so full that Andrew Barr can give away $23 million of ACT ratepayers money to a Sydney football team, now is the time to bring back a school and community centre at Flynn.

We pulled in our belts during the days of horror budgets; but now that we can afford $650,000 for each and every football game by Greater Western Sydney, it is easy to find the $500,000 for a year needed to bring back education and community at Flynn.

The Flynn community has put in a proposal for a community centre including a small school, multi-use activities centre and solar power generation as part of a sustainable social business. Our suburb is teeming with children and those kids, their families and the adult generations all deserve ACT support just as much as the Sydney footballers.