NSW Government's policy review on Local Council Amalgamations does not affect Blacktown City Council and we are not amalgamating. Which is good that the NSW Government has not touched our local government area and that would be mainly due to our consistent population increase.
Check here for NSW Amalgamations for Councils
Looking at the brief amalgamations for Sydney Councils, it seems substantiated that I notice both North Shore Councils will be halved and the eastern suburbs will be taking from Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick Councils to merge as their population is some places 8/10- 9/10 smaller then our population in Blacktown.
We will see 43 Councils reduced to 25 councils in Sydney and regional councils from 109 to 87 Councils. Yes, there will be a cost-cutting initially once all the Councils are amalgamated. There will also be less strong Councillor representative from each Ward, should should mean each Councillor will have a larger responsibility of constituents to look after. This is where I think their wages should increase!
This is where we have to refresh our memory on what politicians get paid per voter. I did my own survey prior to last years state elections, variables would be different now, yet you can understand how politicians get paid (really not much). Although we complain they get paid a lot!
Click here for my survey on our paid politicians!
So that being that, the real news from this post is that the NSW Council General elections have been post-phoned until 17th March 2017.That means we are left this year with just a Australian Federal General Election, later this year.
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