Letter | We need rigour, not rhetoric, when committing ratepayer funds
RE: We Need A Return To Core Council Business, letter (July 9).
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I don't mind seeing money spent on projects that advance our region, but certainly only after the basics are done well.
The problem with most of our non-core projects is that there is no rigorous examination of costs and benefits, of economic returns, of social returns - most of it is measured based on assertions and rhetoric, by our five controlling councilors themselves.
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It is the councillors' job to ensure proper appraisals are done before public money is committed.
If the current lot can't insist on this, then they should step aside for people who will do it.
