The 4350water Blog highlights some of the issues relating to proposals for potable reuse in Toowoomba and South East Qld. 4350water blog looks at related political issues as well.
Excerpt from WIN News:
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:59 PM
For many years, the 4350water blog has informed readers of plans by the Toowoomba City Council (now Toowoomba Regional Council) and the Qld government to introduce recycled water for drinking in Toowoomba. It has also looked at the issue from a State and Federal perspective and dealt with related State and Federal political issues. There continues to be a need for the Toowoomba Regional Council to be completely transparent in its dealings with the ratepayers and residents of Toowoomba. There also continues to be a need for open debate on the benefits and risks of potable reuse and long-term studies on the effects on humans of drinking recycled water. Coal seam gas water is emerging as a possible alternate water source for some uses for the region. The 4350water blog is a collective effort and thanks go to its many contributors.
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Ken Murphy says in todays chroicle that there will 20 contenders for Mayor. I think Ian Jones will win any contest an dwould be the best Mayor with experience.
6:50 AM, December 21, 2007
You have to be joking!!!
Snow Manners is the man for the job as he is the only one with the experience to deliver.
He was the one who first stated that this committee is not on top of things and it is the job of the new Mayor and new council to reject these proposals.
Phil Spencer and the boys are setting in place an empire and the community are awake up to it as every where I go they say we don't want people who will rubber stamp this committee. Jones says he is upset but we will have to accept it. That is not the sign of a leader.
The Toowoomba community will support the man who helped lead the No campaign in the water debate as he has the courage to stand up to the bureaucrats.
Ian Jones is on record as a supporter of Di Thorley and her mad drive to make this community the experiment in drinking recycled sewage water.
Ian Jones is not the man for the job!!
7:25 AM, December 21, 2007
Jones will pick up the Clifton vote but maybe not much more.
10:13 AM, December 21, 2007
MEDIA RELEASE: Manners: "Toowoomba Regional Council organisational structure will be reviewed."
20/12/07
Snow Manners says he will completely review the bureaucratic structure of the Toowoomba Regional Council when elected as Mayor.
The Toowoomba Regional Council Transition Committee has endorsed the attached organizational structure for the proposed amalgamation of Crows Nest, Rosalie, Jondaryan, Millmerran, Clifton, Cambooya, Pittsworth and Toowoomba into the Toowoomba Regional Council.
Snow Manners says:
“The Local Government Transition Committee has far too quickly approved an organizational structure with three new departments and twenty new branches without looking closely at the implications for the smaller communities on the Darling Downs.
“Without any substantial debate and I believe without a clear understanding the transition committee members rubber stamped the plan put to them by the interim CEO at the Millmerran meeting last Monday.
“I was invited to comment from the public gallery after the committee debate and before the vote on the structure. Three members of the Transition Committee recorded a vote against the proposed plan.
“This Local Government Transition Committee can make suggestions only. The new Mayor and Council elected on March 15 will adopt, review or reject those recommendations after careful thought.
“Obviously the seven regional Council offices need to remain open as branches of the Regional Council to provide all the services those communities are used to. However a further three departments and fourteen branches in Toowoomba is bureaucratic madness. If ratepayers are to derive any benefit from amalgamations then the Council structure must be lean and consistent with modern business practices.
“I am surprised at the need to create new administrative positions and it smacks of empire building.
“My concern is that after three years the talent and skills that Local Government staff bring to country towns will gradually migrate into Toowoomba and the skills they bring to their local community organizations as volunteers will be lost.
10:31 AM, December 21, 2007
Number 4 Mayoral Candidate is Mr Henry Johns a former senior Director of BHP in financial operations.
10:36 AM, December 22, 2007
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