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15-6-06
Heffron Park: Randwick-Botany Greens
Not Supporting High Rise Funding Proposal
The
Randwick-Botany Greens and their Councillors have resolved not to
support the residential development option for funding the
refurbishment of the Heffron Park sporting complex.
Last week
Labor Councillor and Maroubra MP Michael Daley effectively blocked a
Greens alternative plan of asking the State Government for
dollar-for-dollar funding.
Finding a way to fund the very
worth while project is now becoming critical.
Greens Deputy
Mayor Murray Matson vowed this week to save the project by keeping
the pressure up on Cr Daley to ask the Government for the funding. He
elaborated,
“The Labor MP for Maroubra should do his job
for the community and demand that his parliamentary Labor colleagues
give Eastern Sydney the sporting complex that it deserves. All the
Greens want is dollar-for-dollar funding.”
One of the
few options left is Cr Daley's contentious proposal (Southern Courier
8thJune 2006) that the Council should borrow the money.
This
choice would reverse a decade old stance by Labor Councillors against
borrowing and would be opposed by the Green Councillors. Murray
Matson.
Cr Matson claimed that borrowing $40 million
would,
“... turn Randwick City Council into an
impoverished third world enclave within metropolitan Sydney.”
He
elaborated,
“Adoption of Cr Daley's borrowing proposal
would mean the slashing of Council services to meet the interest
payments. This would mean fewer pavement replacements, higher child
care charges, less street tree plantings, empty libraries, less
rubbish pick ups and shabby run down beaches and parks.”
CONTACT:
Randwick Greens Councillor Murray Matson