I have been taking a bit of a break from Blogging over the last couple of weeks, but now it’s time to get stuck into it.
There have been 16 nominations for councillor, from which we have to elect 8, so half of us will have to miss out.... Is the number a bad thing or a good thing? Well we will just have to wait and see.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks doing some background work. I’ve organised and printed some flyers to go out later in the campaign, as well as started a campaign diary to organise all of the upcoming functions and appointments.
One of the things I have been working on is a policy overview document outlining my position on issues such as Centralisation, Equalisation of Services, Roads, Flood Mitigation, The Neil Turner Weir, ULDA, The Resources “Boom”, Emergency Management, Community Events and Organisations, Local Suppliers, Communications, Community Consultation and many others.
Over the next 5 weeks, I will post a different issue in each post, interspersed with posts of issues of the day or my thoughts on campaign happenings.
So, Here we go....
Equalisation of Services
There has been much talk in this term of council about the equalisation of services where different levels of service where provided by different councils prior to amalgamation. This is where Issues such as the Maranoa Retirement Village and the Booringa Bulletin became hot issues.
It is important to review all of the facilities and services offered by council and it is equally important to standardise these things across the entire Maranoa region. This does not automatically mean that we all have to have the lowest common denominator. Equalisation of services is not automatically about the simplest/least/most basic, it is about providing the best/optimal/most suitable. We shouldn’t automatically be doing away with things that other parts of the region don’t have, we should be looking at whether or not it is a good idea and if it is, maybe we should be rolling it out across the entire shire.
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