I formally object to a rate rise. The reasons are as follows:
Services have and continue to decline;
Rents have declined by hundreds of dollars a week;
Rental properties are vacant;
Sale properties are not selling;
Residents are leaving the community;
Business are closing; and
There is little to no incentive for investment (particularly with the council giving themselves the option to kick tenants out to get a better offer).
Increasing the rates annually is not sustainable for the town or the ratepayers. It should not be up to the rate payers to make up the Shire's budget shortfall.
It is wrong that the community is in such a dire financial position and yet lack lustre performance does not impact on CEO and Director's salary packages. Particularly when they are not financially invested in the community.
Again, it It should not be up to just the rate payers to make up the Shire's budget shortfall.
In this current economical time of uncertainty SWEK should be doing everything to attract businesses and people to the region. Rates rise, people leave, rates rise, people leave it's a vicious cycle.
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Joshua Letchford
10 years ago
At the current moment, it would be better to reduce spending on nice things, rather than keep the rates so high.
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Corie Rasmussen
10 years ago
Come on Seek pull your head in. Take a hard look at your expenditures and see what can be adjusted and managed better instead of taking the easy road out and take money off the local rate payers.
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Tamara kap
10 years ago
no more high rates
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Warren Shaw
· petition starter
10 years ago
No to Differential rates!
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David Muller
10 years ago
Let's have the SWEK counsellors actually listen to us for a change
I formally object to a rate rise. The reasons are as follows: Services have and continue to decline; Rents have declined by hundreds of dollars a week; Rental properties are vacant; Sale properties are not selling; Residents are leaving the community; Business are closing; and There is little to no incentive for investment (particularly with the council giving themselves the option to kick tenants out to get a better offer). Increasing the rates annually is not sustainable for the town or the ratepayers. It should not be up to the rate payers to make up the Shire's budget shortfall. It is wrong that the community is in such a dire financial position and yet lack lustre performance does not impact on CEO and Director's salary packages. Particularly when they are not financially invested in the community. Again, it It should not be up to just the rate payers to make up the Shire's budget shortfall. In this current economical time of uncertainty SWEK should be doing everything to attract businesses and people to the region. Rates rise, people leave, rates rise, people leave it's a vicious cycle.
At the current moment, it would be better to reduce spending on nice things, rather than keep the rates so high.
Come on Seek pull your head in. Take a hard look at your expenditures and see what can be adjusted and managed better instead of taking the easy road out and take money off the local rate payers.
no more high rates
No to Differential rates!
Let's have the SWEK counsellors actually listen to us for a change