A wonderful waste of money

Like everybody else I have just received my latest rate notice.

It was hiding amongst a pile of bumpf.

There was a fridge magnet telling me about things happening on the north of the Coast and a really glossy brochure named Coast Matters.

This wonderful waste of money included an article by Administrator Ian explaining why nothing is being done, and nothing will be done in the foreseeable future.

On page 2 there is a photo of a worker directing a couple of blokes to the nearest pub or somewhere.

The photo also shows a blue thingummy on some sand bags and a ditch digger with no driver.

No wonder the total cost allocated for road upgrades needs to be $156 million.

It is also interesting to note that the only road on the Peninsula to be repaired is a less than major road in Booker Bay.

While I am very happy for those fortunate few, I just wonder how this road was chosen when there are so many potholed kilometres of more significance being ignored.

While I found some of the other articles spell-binding I do not believe that the publication delivers any information which could not have been conveyed on re-cycled newspapers, if it needed to be shared at all.

Perhaps the Council web-site could include an Opt Out option so my poor postie isn't lumbered with having to carry all this extra weight.

Better still, the Peninsula is serviced by two excellent local papers, which are free.

I am sure the editors would be only too happy to include details of such earth-shattering importance for our edification.

Email, 29 Oct 2016

Laurie Powell, Woy Woy