It is pleasing that Blacktown City Council has accept my submission to it's Draft Operational Plan for 2017-2018.
There were 3 main areas that I focussed on: The main important issues of why all 3 tiers of governments have declared draft budgets at different times of the year, not matching levels. Whilst Council agrees that this is not logical - they are doing their job based on the Local Government Act of 1993 and following the current proper process. This is where all stake holders in all tiers of government should get together and change their appropriate Acts to have Budgets released from Federal, State and then to Local.
I warmly confirmed the focus that the Blacktown City Council is taking for improvements within it budget and I provided them with an idea to increase councillors to another 3 and Ward to another one to offset increases to local government area population and future populations. So again here, the NSW Government will need to change the Local Government Act of 1993 to raise the maximum number of Councillors to 21. I would like to request our NSW State Representative, Mr Edmond Atalla, Member for Mount Druitt, to consult Council and his fellow colleagues in NSW Parliament and legislate for this - helping the future growth of Blacktown City.
Click here to check out submission to Blacktown City Council Annual Budget 2017-18
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