Who is Carrying Who?
Remember back to the days just before concil amalgamation?
That was the time when the good people of Maryborough were complaining that they would have to carry the people of Hervey Bay because Hervey Bay had such high debt levels … and Maryborogh council knew that Hervey Bay had high debt levels because the Hervey Bay Council didn’t try to hide that information.
Well now it seems that it’s not the good people of Maryborough who are going to have to carry the Hervey Bay community … instead it’s us, the people of Tiaro Shire and the people of the old Woocoo Shire who are going to have to chip in to support Maryborough and their failing sewerage and water system.
It seems that these were problems that the Maryborough Council knew about well before amalgamation but decided not to tell anyone about.
Of course now there are some questions that we’d all like answers to … questions that are asked over on Strewth is Back … questions that are probably way too hard for anyone from the old Maryborough Council to answer.
January 5th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
As I have stated many times before parochialism is rampant in our region and I don’t want to add to it. However, the facts are Maryborough’s rates were kept artificialy low, there was no way their rates were going to keep up with the towns needs. But it did insure their councillors got re-elected.
You also read many times how the FCRC is Hervey Bay centric even though Maryborough has just as many council representaives as the Bay.
If they also got the support of Tiaro and Woocoo they’d dud Hervey Bay every time.
The fact is the Maryborough people have been duded by their own people and the Bay’s ratepayers will have to carry them for many years to come.