The Launceston City Council has a responsibility to demonstrate good governance in framing the forthcoming 2015/16 Budget to ensure fairness, transparency and accountability.
With the Consumer Price Index for Tasmania to March 2015 being only 0.9%, the Alderman have no other option than to declare a zero rate increase, including indirect fees and charges.
To speak of a rate increase of some 2.5% reflects poorly on our elected representatives who appear to not understand the depths of despair currently prevailing in our city.
Ian Routley
Launceston
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| Launceston's Aldermen |
The aldermen don't have to struggle because they are using other peoples' money to pay themselves and to pay for their considerable benefits.
ReplyDeleteAt a first quick look this budget looks like more and more and more of the same. That translates as inequity in many aspects of it and on the face of it administratively self serving. In the USA this would most likely qualify as a snow job due to ordinary people's inability to penetrate it or the rationales driving it. This will require a bit of thinking about.
ReplyDeletethis looks like an idea free zone and a load of old tosh but we have to pay up or move on and in my case its the landlord who'll be moaning and putting up my rent isn't that called gouging but you cannot go to the freakin council for help
ReplyDelete"PROGRESS WITH PRUDENCE" what a lot of horse do do!
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