Incompetent or misleading?
The State Government announced the Regional Relocation Grants on June 24.
The Member for Gosford put out a press release that day which appeared in your edition on June 27.
It spoke in glowing terms of the scheme and how it provided opportunities for families to relocate to the Central Coast and in particular the Peninsula region.
It went on to quote the deputy premier and to lavish praise upon his party for their efforts and the positive outcomes which would follow.
Nothing unusual you would think.
Wrong, as apart from the name of the scheme the media release was entirely erroneous.
Such a scheme provides families relocating from the Sydney metropolitan area to a regional area who sell and purchase real estate to make application for a grant to assist in offsetting the costs involved.
The scheme is administered by the Office of State Revenue and the metropolitan -regional area is defined by reference to Local Government.
By definition Gosford and Wyong council fall into the metropolitan area.
Either the Member is completely incompetent or else he was deliberately misleading.
I don't know which alternative is the worst.
Email, 4 Jul 2011
Katie Smith, Umina