Democracy!
• I agree with 'Community Board Supporter' (last week's Bulletin ) that democracy was not served when the wishes of a local community, as expressed through their elected representatives, were overturned by renegade councillors some of whom serve on both community boards and full district council. Surely when five separate community boards within the Ruapehu district vote for a change to the existing rating system so as to allow for a certain amount of the tatai rates collected to be allocated to the different wards in order to develop some projects unique to that locality, it is the responsibility of Ruapehu District councillors to reflect that decision on behalf of their community no matter what their personal views are. All this talk of commonality of interests between the northern and southern regions of the Ruapehu district is sheer nonsense. Our needs in the Waimarino are not exactly the same as those in Taumarunui and never will be. So let us have some separate funding so that we can develop our own community projects instead of having our list of priorities compared with those in the northern wards.
'Waimarino resident'
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 485, 11 May 1993, Page 2
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188Democracy! Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 485, 11 May 1993, Page 2
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