Subject Council Elections
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Residents of the former Great Lakes Council won’t be voting this weekend but there are some questions they should be asking themselves.
1. Why the current State member and former State member support the removal of democracy from residents for 16 months?
2. Why the same people have been complicit in forming a new council that will see millions of dollars of Great Lakes resident’s rates redirected to Taree and Gloucester to maintain infrastructure while promoting increased rates?
3. Why the interim general manager and administrator agreed to pay ex-councillors unelected by residents more than $300k from ratepayer funds over the term of the Local Representative Committee (LRC) despite them having no power and no real responsibility?
4. Why you would vote for the local member or any member of the LRC when you have the opportunity to have a say about what has happened?
5. Whether the Emperor really has any clothes at all?
Ron Posselt,
Former general manager, Greater Taree City Council,
Harrington