Narooma News letters | Nov. 4

Updated November 4 2015 - 12:23pm, first published October 29 2015 - 9:36am

Response to EBCF

Ian Hitchcock, one of two convenors of the largely unheard of EBCF (Eurobodalla Business and Community Forum), makes some incorrect suggestions and allegations in his letter to this paper last week, which need a response. The message from the State Government wasn't, as he asserts, that our Council must wake up to the need to consider amalgamation. If fact it was the Government, not us, which said in the first instance we were a "no-change' Council and, after we had conformed within their set parameters, deemed us as "Fit for the Future". At the Local Government Conference a fortnight ago, I heard the Premier and Minister say that the process wasn't "one size fits all" so the idea that mega-councils are part of the process is not correct and "community of interest" is an important factor. I've seen no evidence at all that the northern communities of the shire want to join Shoalhaven Council nor that southern areas want to join Bega Shire.

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