Today’s announcement of forced mergers between Gundagai and Cootamundra Shire Councils and Harden, Boorowa and Young Shire Councils is a great disappointment to the communities which have worked hard for a different result.
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I did everything I could to forward each council’s respective stance.
I publicly declared my full support for a Cootamundra Harden merger, and my full support for Gundagai to be allowed to remain a stand alone council.
I made submissions to the delegates in support of each council’s original submission to the Government’s Fit for the Future process includingGundagai’s stance to stand alone. I encouraged the community to take part in the process and make submissions to the delegates.
I spoke at Council Boundary Review Public Inquiries, again strongly in support of each Council’s original submission on Fit for the Future.
I have lobbied the Minister for Local Government, the Premier and the Deputy Premier extensively, and made many, many representations on behalf of my constituents to the Minister, the Premier and the Deputy Premier.
I have worked hard behind the scenes to put forward my councils’ and their communities’ wishes.
I have again today expressed to the Minister that Gundagai should remain a stand alone council.
However, as proclamations are imminent I will be seeking to meet with the Gundagai Administrator Paul Braybrooks and the Hilltops Administrator Wendy Tuckerman to talk through concerns that will need addressing within the new councils.
