DEAR News Of The Area,
SO we have this system that the council promotes and pushes us to use and it is called “Have Your Say”.
One would have thought it would be used to guide the councillors about how their ratepayers are feeling and what direction they should go in.
But no!
As per the poll on the foreshores, “Have Your Say” is also totally ignored.
At the council meeting on 19 June, the suggestion of whether the council should change from fortnightly meetings to monthly meetings came up.
Some 65 percent of respondents to “Have Your Say” had said it should stay fortnightly.
Did the council listen?
No, the usual suspects, Nikki Williams and her “Independent Nationals” team, think they know better and, yet again, ignored their residents by voting for half the meetings they were having.
I wonder if their pay will halve?
Apparently they want to get out to talk to people more… what at cocktail parties?
Democracy is dead in Coffs Harbour.
Please be honest Mayor Williams and shut down the “Have Your Say” portal and all the costs to ratepayers that go with it.
Be honest enough to say you will be ignoring it anyway, if it doesn’t coincide with your wishes.
Most of us have streets with potholes that need fixing and other less glamorous activities, so save us some dollars and stop with the pretence that we have any say at all.
Regards,
Cheryl COOPER,
Coffs Harbour.
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