Ever wondered why your rates in South Gippsland Shire are higher than many other comparable Councils?
Could the Shire Have Given a 3% rate Burden Reduction
Just 4 months after adopting the Budget in August 2019, the Council slashed $1.8m from the capital
works budget. This is not work deferred but work cut all together.
We are all in this together” – how often have we seen this or heard it said over the past 2 months.
Well it does not seem to have been applied at the local elite work force at the South Gippsland Shire Council.
This is a Council where workers who have had their place of work closed (i.e.. Caravan parks, coal creek, libraries) are still employed and paid for by ratepayers at SGSC Centrelink.
The SGSC resort to claiming that because the Auditors look at their reports that it is satisfactory not
to have transparency with the Council financials. If one looks at issues with Councils where fraud
has occurred it is not the auditors who discover these issues.
South Gippsland Action Group (SGAG) is encouraging the Council to talk to the community
about future items for the Council Plan due to be updated later in the year.
The South Gippsland Action Group have just received a reply to questions which indicates that Council do not take any notice of Presentations until they are made at the Annual Budget and Council Plan sessions once a year and then with just short notice and time to have anything discussed.