FROM BASIL'S JOURNAL
"With the State Govt spruiking supposedly billions of dollars’ worth of developments going on through federal City Deals funding, they are all in limbo – STEM, light rail, Macquarie point, Utas, T-tree bend upgrade, Tamar silt, Bridgewater Bridge and more. No business cases or approvals are currently in play and a number of them old news (UTAS 4 years already) and some gone dead (like a couple of hotels in Launceston)....../ Scomo will arrive in his election campaign early next year telling everyone how good they are with these City Deals, and it will inevitably end up being a hoax with the money not being readily available...... People’s expectations will have been made high in the meantime, but if all the promises are delivered tomorrow, there won’t be a budget surplus in sight, let alone construction workers! How much longer will we need to wait for Utas to be built? ......... Land has been gifted by LCC already when ratepayers could have the benefit of that money, by being sold off and the money used to pay off all our debt instead so that LCC can keep our rate increases at bay (provided they could turn things around and show future fiscal constraint……..)
YES, YES, the word is out! UTAS have finally done a rough cost analysis for Inveresk to move from Newnham and SURPRISE, SURPRISE it's $400m NOT $200m. Come on Mr Mayor, are you now going to get Mr Gutwein to come up with the extra cash or are you going to sting the ratepayers of the Launceston to get this thing over the line that you have repeatedly told everyone it would be the best thing for Launceston??
Think of what that $200m could do for our hospital and schools instead! This pushes up these CIty Deals (as mentioned in previous posts) to now running around $4.5b and not one cent has been handed over by the federal government to put a spade in the ground.
When are the fairy-tale stories going to finish with this mob! Just as well it's Christmas time, because they think I believe in Santa!
Five new alderman have inherited this mess and now have to help sort it out.
Stay at Newnham, and take back the gifted ratepayers land!
Some common sense PLEASE!
FROM BASIL'S JOURNAL
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