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Amalgamation is seldom easy, just remember your family and your partner’s family when you got married and multiply that saga by at least 1,000.
The amalgamation of councils has had little success and failures are lining up.
History will probably record the event as “Baird’s Folly”.
Unless you have been there, spare your criticism and be doubtful of those in the tent making the most noise.
Regarding the “sack them all” ragers; experience is the best teacher.
Spare a thought that no councillor intended this to happen.
Consider that most of them were politicking in two smaller patches and doing okay.
Also, remember that local government is the last call in the democratic food chain and they have never had enough funds to achieve the ambitions set for them.
So, before you toss them all out, consider the experience they have gained that no others have.
They will also be hell bent on clearing their names and there is no better motivation for success than that.
Email, Feb 22
Bob Davies, Buff Point
Anyone could have done a better job sack them all
We all drive around and see ten blokes on a job that takes two it’s a disgrace I had a blown water main and I had too buy out of my own pocket dirt too fill only cause they didn’t come back as much as I got reference number kept ringing then they came put some dirt in one ditch not the still no turf suppose I have too buy that too and they 40% increase in rates what a joke they damage things and don’t fix it SACK THEM ALL
LINING THEIR OWN POCKETS
WORK FROM HOME THEY SAY IVE BEEN TWO ADMIN HOUSES TOO DO WORK ONE WAS CLADDING HIS HOUSE OTHER ONE WATCHED TELEVISION ALL DAYSO THOSE PEOPLE WE DONT NEED HOW MANY MORE ARE THEIR THAT DO NOTHING
SACK THEM ALL
They shouldn’t be paid what they are paid to ‘learn on the job’.