While the Quaama Bushfire Relief Centre must move out of its town's hall it will hopefully reopen in a nearby demountable building.
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Bega Valley Shire Council is calling for feedback from the Quaama community on the plan to move the relief centre out of the Quaama School of Arts Hall and into a demountable, the use of which has been donated, on the hall's grounds.
It is a move that the relief centre's coordinator Veronica Abbott has been calling for since June.
"I didn't want to be here this long, but we did need somewhere to house the relief efforts," she said.
"I know our community needs to do other things, we need to do the things that were happening before the fire."
She said the hall has been used for dance sessions as well as by the local school, and council said "the hall needs to be available for groups to hire for other community purposes".
If the centre moves to the demountable it will continue to be a place to offer support for people, but Ms Abbott said it will not be as focused on distributing items as op shops and relief organisations are back in action following the COVID-19 shutdown.
There will be a focus on helping people access building materials or assisting with gardens, and it "won't be as much about clothes and linen", she said.
"We're going to change the name, it's going to be the renewal centre, because that's where we are now," she said.
Ms Abbott said the onset of spring, the recent rains and being able to see gardens growing back have all helped the community recovering in the wake of the summer bushfires.
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She said it was also important how everyone in the community shared positive news with each other, like one person whose rebuild has finished.
"But I think everybody is absolutely exhausted," she said.
"It's been this relentless process, with COVID mucking up everything in the middle.
"I feel for people forced into building a house that was never in their future; that's really hard, trying to navigate it when it was never going to be something they did.
"I think people thrust into this situation, they are struggling the worst."
Aside from moving the relief centre into a demountable on the hall's grounds the other option council has presented to the community is the centre not operating on the hall grounds, although it is also asking if the community has any more ideas.
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