THE recent approval by iPart for the increase in Council rates to be levied on Wingecarribee Shire residents came as no surprise given the current council's headlong rush into pushing the agenda irrespective of the views the ratepayers.
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What is surprising however is the statement by Mayor Whipper which appeared in the SHN earlier this week and I quote.
"During the extensive community engagement program undertaken prior to council submitting its SRV application, people overwhelmingly said they expected better infrastructure and were willing to pay for it," Cr Whipper said.
Certainly many residents were supportive of the need to provide better services but very few were supportive of anything more than a rate peg increase.
Most believed the solution was in better financial management; something that this current elected council seems to have little time for.
Obviously Mayor Whipper must have had access to a totally different consultation report to that which was published on the Council's website (plus the petition signed by 615 residents; tabled at the Council Meeting in October 2015; totally opposing any other than the rate peg increase) as neither of those two documents could, by any stretch of the imagination, be construed as indicating 'an overwhelming willingness to pay' if one used traditional mathematical, scientific or statistical interpretations.
But perhaps in the end it has all been worked out using the 'New Math'
- Denis Nosworthy, Colo Vale
