A ratepayer has been cautioned about asking too many questions during the Launceston City Council's public question time, with members of the public restricted to three questions per person.
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Trevallyn's Ray Norman asked three questions about the council's plans for its future budget, planning and spending post COVID-19 but each question had subsections asking for further clarification.
Mayor Albert van Zetten warned Mr Norman that in future the council would only answer the first three questions or parts, whatever came first.
"I note that as in [the] past, Mr Ray Norman has asked three questions but all split up into three parts," he said.
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"In future we will just answer three questions, I think it's a way of getting around the rules which is that we allow three questions.
"We will do it for this one but in future we will go back to the three questions per ratepayer."
The council did provide some insight to its future spending at its Thursday meeting by approving its $40 million Accelerated Capital Works Program.
The program will deliver $20 million to market by December 30, 2020 and a further $20 million by April 30, 2021. The council will decide which capital projects will be accelerated at a future meeting but decided 80 per cent must be asset renewal.
Council's infrastructure and assets network general manager Shane Eberhardt said it aimed to provide confidence in the construction market and stimulus to the city's economy.
He said projects would be identified by reviewing the capital renewal and work programs. Another factor includes bringing the spending in line with the council's long term finance plan:
- 60-70 per cent on transportation
- 4-10 per cent on drainage
- 5-10 per cent on recreation
- 3-8 per cent on buildings
- 12-20 per cent on waste management
- 0-5 per cent on other things
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Sports reporter at The Canberra Times. A Novocastrian with a passion for football (or soccer as they call it in the capital) via The Examiner and The Port Lincoln Times.
Sports reporter at The Canberra Times. A Novocastrian with a passion for football (or soccer as they call it in the capital) via The Examiner and The Port Lincoln Times.
