A leading advocacy body for ratepayers has raised concerns about the changes to Cityprom which were adopted by the City of Launceston Council last week.
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The Tasmania Ratepayers Association is concerned by the shift in funding, which will be incrementally transitioned from the current business levy to the general rate, and the lack of public consultation.
"That means all across the city, all the areas beyond this new proposed boundary are going to have to pay for it and not even benefit from it," association president Lionel Morrel said.
"Cityprom are not required to focus any activities for people from beyond the boundary."
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The association is concerned by the lack of data n the NOA group report which was used to drive the recommendations.
The report notes 719 recipients received an emailed survey about Cityprom, 287 opened it and 65 completed the survey.
That response rate equates to roughly 11 per cent which the association says that points to a level of disengagement with Cityprom.
"The public arguably had three days from when the agenda was published to when the matter was decided upon at the meeting, that's not good enough," he said.
"They say in the report they had a lot of community consultation, there wasn't not to the community."
The report highlighted the implementation of key performance indicators for Cityprom's outcomes but little clarity has been provided over what indicators will be used.
Cityprom chief executive Amanda McEvoy welcomed the recommendation to create key performance indicators.
"The last two years we have been implementing different programs to measure the impact and success of our campaigns," she said.
"We are excited to be forming KPI's with the working group that will enable us to even better measure our reach and success to ensure we are being effective and results orientated."
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