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Thursday 22 October 2015
ISSUE 361
IMAGE: Cabonne Councillor Kevin Walker said the Council will now wait for further information.
Cabonne Council Not Fit For The Future Cabonne Council has been deemed “not fit for the future” by the IPART Report which was released on Tuesday. The sole reason for this final assessment was due to the scale and capacity criteria, which focuses on the population forecast for the next 20 years. Cabonne Mayor Ian Gosper said the Council has until November 18 to provide any further considerations to the Government. “I don’t see how we can change it,” said Mr Gosper. “We only failed on one benchmark and that was Scale and Capacity, and we can’t reach that because we are a rural area.” Member for Orange Andrew Gee said that IPART’s assessment of Fit for the Future Proposals was disappointingly light on meaningful analysis as to why Cabonne and Orange Councils should merge. “IPART dealt with why Cabonne did not
meet the ‘scale and capacity’ criteria in just four dot points. It’s hardly enough to warrant Cabonne merging with Orange,” Mr Gee said. “For a report that was built up so much, it was really weak.” “I do not support a forced amalgamation between Cabonne and Orange Councils,” Mr Gee concluded. Amalgamation No Thank You (ANTY) spokesperson Marj Bollinger wants to know how the voices of the people can be ignored. “The millions of dollars that have been spent to date on the Fit for the Future process that was flawed from the beginning, set up by the Government to arrive at the conclusion they wanted could have had far more community benefits had it been spent on infrastructure improvements,” Marj said. Continued on page 2
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