I’ve had queries in recent months about what’s happening at council. Marian Street Theatre, Roseville Chase and Gordon Bowling Greens, footpaths, the Village Hubs, Council’s four year Delivery Program and ten year Long Term Financial Plan (LTFP). Many of these issues are connected by a central theme: the challenge of meeting a wide range of expectations with a limited pool of funding.
The great thing about democracy is that each councillor brings a range of ideas, but it also means that the council hasn’t quite figured out the best way to fully meet the financial challenge. Each of the June, July and August Council meetings have finished late and included long and varied debates on how to fund a pipeline of services and projects that exceed our income. And as part of the debate, ideas have come and gone. Should we be selling our recreational assets? Should we be reducing our financial commitments by stopping non-core initiatives? Are there other ways to fund the delivery of services? We haven’t quite got the answer yet and it’s been a bit of a frustrating process (for me anyway) because a lot of the comments that get thrown about the public sphere aren’t exactly balanced, accurate, informed, or fair. We’ll have to wait to see what happens and I’ll let you know once there’s an answer.
As for separate issues such as town centre changes, I’ll be covering them in separate posts in the coming weeks.
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I’ve had queries in recent months about what’s happening at council. Marian Street Theatre, Roseville Chase and Gordon Bowling Greens, footpaths, the Village Hubs, Council’s four year Delivery Program and ten year Long Term Financial Plan (LTFP). Many of these issues are connected by a central theme: the challenge of meeting a wide range of expectations with a limited pool of funding.
The great thing about democracy is that each councillor brings a range of ideas, but it also means that the council hasn’t quite figured out the best way to fully meet the financial challenge. Each of the June, July and August Council meetings have finished late and included long and varied debates on how to fund a pipeline of services and projects that exceed our income. And as part of the debate, ideas have come and gone. Should we be selling our recreational assets? Should we be reducing our financial commitments by stopping non-core initiatives? Are there other ways to fund the delivery of services? We haven’t quite got the answer yet and it’s been a bit of a frustrating process (for me anyway) because a lot of the comments that get thrown about the public sphere aren’t exactly balanced, accurate, informed, or fair. We’ll have to wait to see what happens and I’ll let you know once there’s an answer.
As for separate issues such as town centre changes, I’ll be covering them in separate posts in the coming weeks.
