Council reminds me of a fat person at the buffet complaining that there is not enough food.

No matter how much you give it, it is never enough and the thought of making better use of what it has is, of course, preposterous.

There are so many examples of council’s wasteful practices which have been talked about in the community and by this paper and, yet, council’s leviathan ship continues on the same course.

For example, Kyla Hall at Tuross Head was allowed to run down through neglect.

The community was then slugged $360,000 for $120,000 worth of repair work.

A simple maintenance program would have saved a lot of money.

Or the op-shop started by Tuross people that led to funds for volunteers to build a cycleway that went forward in leaps and bounds until council decided to become involved.

In a short time the progress had slowed, costs had gone through the roof and the volunteers had given up in disgust.

Then there is the Tuross Head Progress Hall diddle, where residents were promised money from the sale, after costs.

The community is charged $40,000 for kerb and guttering along the old hall property, while neighbours to the hall site are charged $2500 for half the amount of kerbing.

While council can’t find any money to do its job, it appears to have endless amounts to continually improve its conditions and pursue disabled old couples with mildly questionable hoarding habits until they are bankrupt and broken.

Most people could not stand by and watch that kind of punishment meted out to an old couple but, then again, most people aren’t councillors.

Even fewer people could inflict that kind of punishment on an old couple, but our council could . . . and money was not a problem.

I suspect the rate rise will be granted with the same vote that condemned the old couple - 5 to 4.

Michael Johnson

Tuross Head