Shoalhaven
Greens councillor snubs State Government expression of interest.
Shoalhaven
Greens councillor Amanda Findley is calling on fellow Shoalhaven Councillors to
not respond to the Baird government’s forced council amalgamation Expression of
Interest process but instead to submit to the Minister a Notice of Democratic Mandate.
“Councillors
should not support moves by the Baird government to sack democratically elected
councillors in areas targeted for forced council amalgamations,” said Shoalhaven
Greens Councillor Amanda Findley.
“I
have altered the Expressions of Interest form sent by Minister Toole to
councillors listed for possible forced mergers ‘who wish to be considered for a
role in shaping the new council’, so that it now reads Notice of Democratic Mandate,”
said Shoalhaven Greens Councillor Amanda Findley.
“The
EOI form has a red line through all the Minister’s selection criteria and I am urging
other councillors to highlight that they were ‘elected by the people of
Shoalhaven to serve them until the September 2016 election’ and insist on their
democratic right to continue to serve their local communities,” said Cr Findley.
“I along
with the other current Councillors have been elected by the people of Shoalhaven
to make decisions that are in the best long-term interests of the broader
community, not to act as a tool for the Baird government’s agenda,” said Cr Findley.
‘This
whole process has been rushed, displaying incompetence which is even reflected
in the Expression of Interest which lists the wrong email address for the
lodgement of the form’.
Expressions
of Interest were due on 15 April, but I urge all Councillors who have not
submitted to send a Notice of Democratic Mandate in a show of solidarity
against the proposed merger. I also call on Shoalhaven Councillors to reveal to
the public if they have capitulated to the State Governments pressure and sent
in an EOI.
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