I WRITE in support of Bruce Rapkin’s letter (Bay Post, November 21), especially with council’s back door cash grab by increasing fees and charges after 2011, and a failure to gain ratepayers’ agreement to increase rates.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
Council seems to have a myopic view of the shire’s demography when trying to convince us to pay more.
We watch with concern as council’s rates, fees and penalties, like Noah’s flood, creep higher and higher.
One cannot contest many of the good works council does for us; it’s a long list of much merit.
However, there is a limit of what it can expect to get from those who have little to give.
I know there is email, councillors and snail mail all the time, but maybe there could be value in an annual promotion that canvasses constructive, creative suggestions from residents on cost savings, expenditure cutbacks, and better service.
Institutions can create a culture of an “internal hive of busy business” to such a degree they become blind to their mission statement, resulting in “them and us”.
That is a negative, unfortunate outcome, for all of us.
Peter Gorry
Moruya
