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# Budget feedback
- URL: https://www.courier.net.au/budget-feedback/
- Published: 2022-07-19T14:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-27T03:15:23.000Z
- Description: WELL done Mt Barker, fail Alexandrina! So only Councillors Lewis, Coomans and Farrier acted on the feedback from ratepayers and residents on the diabolical train wreck of a budget being foisted on the community. The other councillors present...
- Author: The Courier
- Tags: Letters

WELL done Mt Barker, fail Alexandrina!

So only Councillors Lewis, Coomans and Farrier acted on the feedback from ratepayers and residents on the diabolical train wreck of a budget being foisted on the community.

The other councillors present, Gardner, Rebbeck, Keily, Maidment, Carter, Stewart, many rumored to not be running next time, leave a legacy of big tourist projects, debt and hardship for those in our community least able to bear it. Mayor Parkes was uncharacteristically silent.

One hopes the next council will take a leaf out of the Mt Barker Council’s book and not only listen to its community who, with a similar amount of feedback received, lowered their proposed rates.

Well done!

Julie Jordan and Richard Bulmer, Goolwa