This is the personal blog of Ian Ker, who was Councillor for the South Ward of the Town of Vincent from 1995 to 2009. I have been a resident of this area since 1985. This blog was originally conceived as a way of letting residents of Vincent know what I have been doing and sharing thoughts on important issues. I can now use it to sound off about things that concern me.

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Real Numbers Starting To Appear On Costs

The Town of Victoria Park had budgeted $750,000 for 2014-15 for costs associated with local government so-called reform.

The City of Fremantle has budgeted $1 million for 2014-15.

Both these sums are for issues to be addressed before the new entities are even created. We all know that most of the costs will come from July 2015 onwards should the forced changes go ahead.

If these are typical, we, the ratepayers, are looking at up to $30 million before the nitty-gritty implementation of changes. Given that Victoria Park and Fremantle are smaller than average for metropolitan local governments (just over 3% of population), we could be looking at many times that.
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  1. AnonymousJuly 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM

    The Commissioner for the City of Canning has moved $4 million from reserve funds for 'Expenditure associated with preparing the Organisation's people and processes for Local Government reform may also be funded from this Reserve.'

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