32,330 v. Toowoomba City Council - 1:nil
Storms in Toowoomba and also in the Council chambers yesterday.
Toowoomba was drenched with a couple of inches of rain. Water over near Mackenzie Street was a metre deep. It would have created a torrent through Toowoomba's creek system. Pity, the Council hasn't figured out better ways to catch and use this stormwater!
See - news.com.au - storm photos.
Also see - Chronicle - storm report.
Storms also within Council chambers as new Councillor Snow Manners showed that he actually reads Council documents.
It seems that no longer will Council Committee meetings be lackadaisical affairs where Council employees make points without challenge from Councillors and where (certain) Councillors have prepared scripts so they at least have something they can contribute.
There's new blood in the Council and it seems questions will be asked, positions will be challenged and respect for the position of Councillor will be maintained.
Things just got a lot tougher in the Council bunker.
The game has changed. The only question is whether Mayor Thorley and her clutch of followers have realised it ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:11 AM
5 Comments:
It was so funny when Ramia said on WIN: 'there were a lot of innuendos flying around'. Sounds like UFOS or large insects flying around the council's meeting.
9:50 PM, November 08, 2006
I think this Council are like the aboriginals on Sydney Heads when Capt. Cook sailed in. They were heard to have said " I think there are changes coming".
I think that is an understatement!
10:17 PM, November 08, 2006
The by-election has allowed a new player into their cosy existence. It will never be the same - and certainly not after the next Council election.
10:29 PM, November 08, 2006
From WIN News:
Little damage
9 November 2006
Yesterday's torrential downpours have surprisingly caused only minor damage to Toowoomba's eleven million dollar West Creek redevelopment.
The city's retention basins slowing the water's flow through the CBD, which in previous years suffered major flooding.
7:34 PM, November 09, 2006
What is surprising is that the Councillor is surprised that it works!!!!
8:11 PM, November 09, 2006
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