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JUNK DUMP ANGER By Sarah Vella AN honest Leongatha citizen who reported a dumped bed has been told by the South Gippsland Shire council they’ll have to pay $40 for its disposal. Despite being initially left on council land, then moved and thrown onto the vacant block of Heather Poletti in Eleanor Court, Leongatha, council said because the bed was on private land, the cost of removal would be at the ratepayer’s expense. “We contacted the South Gippsland Shire Council local laws officer who told us because it was dumped on private property, they were unable to remove it,” Mrs Poletti said.
Mrs Poletti then asked the officer if she moved the bed base to the naturestrip, could it be removed. She said she was threatened with a fine for littering. “I don’t think the local laws officer was doing his job properly. He should have been able to offer us a solution,” she said. The ratepayer, like many in South Gippsland Shire, is still trying to come to grips with the massive hikes in rates in the past three years. A triple whammy of a 4.9 percent rate increase across the board, the new farm rate differential and the new green waste service has seen rates skyrocket as much as 19 percent for some ratepayers. Continued page 4.
O T G U L $40 S D E B E V REMO Just garbage: Lisa, Isla and Sienna Burge and Heather Poletti with the piece of rubbish that was discarded on their Leongatha property. They are now stuck with the garbage and are faced with a cost of $40 to dispose of it correctly.
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