Fraser Coast Regional Council to become divided
Friday, November 4th, 2011Next year’s local government elections here on the Fraser Coast has become even more interesting than it was obviously going to be.
Local Government Minister Paul Lucas has just announced that the Government had accepted the recommendations of the independent Change Commission to change the Fraser Coast from an undivided council to a divided council.
The Change Commission will now work out where boundaries will be drawn to ensure quotas comply with requirements of the Local Government Act 2009.
And what will all that mean? Only time will tell but perhaps some of the current members of Council will be struggling to make the new Council … and that may not be such a bad thing.
We might even get some Councillors who are prepared to look at their role in a whole new light. Hopefully we’ll at least see an end to complaints that Council is biased towards Hervey Bay or Maryborough.
