No more free passes to the races

I was watching the local news on New Year's night when they interviewed a bloke from Gosford Racecourse.

He said that this year Central Coast Council had not given ratepayers a free pass to the races.

As I am getting on a bit and not remembering too well, I didn't twig that was the case.

I have not been to the races for a number of years and never used the free pass.

However, it would have been nice to have had the opportunity had I wanted to go.

We, here on the Peninsula get little enough for our rates and this is just another example of penny pinching and a miserly mob.

While I was thinking about this, didn't we have the opportunity to pay our rates for the year in one go and have a chance to win a nice prize?

Seems that went by the board too.

Do we get anything at all free that we have already paid for?

Seems not.

Email, 2 Jan 2019

Laurie Powell, Woy Woy