Korumburra grateful to council

AT THE last council meeting, Cr Davies spoke to Council on how grateful the ratepayers of Korumburra should be as over the last five years the council had spent over $20 million in Korumburra. Could

I just ask Cr Davies to identify which Korumburra businesses received that $20 million to install the infrastructure she refers to. How much of that money made its way into wages and the homes in Korumburra? From there, how much of that $20 million made its way into the shops and businesses in Korumburra? Construction work was undertaken in Korumburra, but was the money spent elsewhere, Leongatha by chance. What Cr Davies should have said was, over $20 million was spent in Leongatha for the people of Korumburra, and the people of Korumburra should be grateful.

The upcoming streetscape upgrade costing many millions of dollars will be performed by a well-known Leongatha company. I feel the pain of Leongatha as that money flows through the shops and businesses there. You just need only to walk the main shopping centres to see where the money is going. Cr Davies logic appears that it’s the senior citizens who should pay the cost of council’s generosity, they should be more grateful. They should also totally ignore their safety concerns in regard to the extremely dangerous siting of the Hub on one of the steepest streets in Korumburra, despite recommendations to council from its own feasibility study identifying the very poor disability access. If the council had proceeded with locating the Hub on other flat land sites as they proposed to the senior citizens we would not be having this discussion. Yes Cr Davies, the ratepayers of Korumburra are grateful for every dollar spent in Leongatha on Korumburra. 

Harry Prosser