AN announcement was made recently by the NSW Treasurer, Andrew Constance, that a grant of $10 million would be made available to Eurobodalla Shire Council to complete the spine road from Glenella Road to the Princes Highway.
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Since then other grant funding for the benefit of the community in the Eurobodalla Shire has been announced by the federal member for Eden-Monaro, Peter Hendy.
These latter grants also ran in the millions of dollars - $4.5 million in one announcement, and double that in the following year to $9 million, a total of $13.5 million.
Those announcements of promised funding for the benefit of the Eurobodalla Shire’s residents and ratepayers totals $23.5 million or thereabouts over the present and coming council budget periods, equalling about 20 per cent of the annual council budget.
Will those announcements have an impact on council’s proposal to apply to the IPART for a significant rate rise over the next three years?
It will be of real interest to hear what the mayor has to say about all that new promised taxpayer cash and how it’ll be used, won’t it?
Allan Brown
Batemans Bay
