Toowoomba Regional Council burning transitional funding ...
... must be all the gourmet sandwiches.
Excerpt from ABC News:
Qld Govt urged to provide more shire 'transition' funding
19 December 2007
Crows Nest Shire councillor Crystal Stark says councils are having to divert more money and resources towards the creation of the Toowoomba Regional Council because the Queensland Government has not provided enough funding.
Cr Stark says only $445,000 has been allocated, but the local transition committee has already spent $680,000 and is anticipating spending a total of $2 million.
She says the Queensland Government must provide more money.
"Our ratepayers are pretty cheesed off because staff have been pulled in from all the surrounding shires to work in Toowoomba on this," she said.
"Our rates are still paying them, the councils are still paying their wages."
See - Transitional team burning money.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 1:43 PM
1 Comments:
Cr Stark should realize that the government is not going to give more money and if the transitional committee watched what they spent the money on we would not be facing a debt in March when the new council is elected.
Peter Taylor has his hand up for the position of the new Mayor but how could we vote in some-one who can not rain in the bureaucrats and their spending on the likes of consultants and many many staff to help out the CEO.
At no time has he stood up for the community he is supposed to represent. These same citizens have voted no to amalgamation in droves.
11:10 PM, December 19, 2007
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