The site was purchased in early 2016 with fanfare about a "gateway development for the shire", yet this blighted, over-priced, largely useless site has dropped out of consideration for the complex. Will this waste ever be explained?

It continues to be called the "Batemans Bay" Regional Aquatic Arts and Leisure Centre (BBRAALC), not the "Eurobodalla" RAALC.

Why should the rest of the shire be expected to pay for it when rates inevitably have to go up - subject to the confidential business case (is there one?) showing otherwise.

Some seem to think low-interest rates are an invitation to borrow. Maybe these political expedients and economic rationalists see opportunities for extra filling for the big hole in Mackay Park from the bushfire recovery monies by changing its name to BBRAALEEC i.e. EE=Emergency Evacuation.

The ongoing costs of ownership and operation are the "crunchers". Let us see the business case that shows otherwise before spending more.

The council's stance has been that it was unaffordable to have an Olympic pool or a decent performance space. Sensible features like a creche have been eliminated and exhibition space reduced "to save costs", but the gym area is enlarged. We will lose the iconic, rent-paying, tourist-attracting Mini Golf.

If capital funding is no longer the insurmountable issue, give us our Olympic pool, performance space, creche, other eliminated niceties, and Mini Golf, to attract the maximum paying patrons.

How about a pause until after the next election, when we might have someone with back bone and civic and commercial nous?

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