In a shabby state

January 22 2015 - 4:22pm

IN case others overlook the significance of his words, Russell Schnieder’s letter (All in the planning, Bay Post, January 14) should be emphasised in large print: "Eurobodalla Shire Council’s attempt to hike rates by 26 per cent over three years results from a self-inflicted wound caused by council and its advisers … Its restrictive policies … have gutted the shire’s rateable base … Between 2011 and 2014 rateable values in the shire dropped by 5.3 per cent … Those in neighbouring shires which had developed far less alarmist policies rose by between 4.3 and 7.9 per cent.”

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