Hot on the heels of John Day's calling for his electors in Kalamunda and Mundaring to be given the right to a poll (http://ianrker-vincent.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/well-done-john-day.html) comes Mundaring Shire President, Helen Dullard, saying:"Our position has always been to remain as is…"
"If forced to merge, amalgamation allowed for a fairer process with both Councils abolished (not just Mundaring), a new Council being elected by the whole district, and the community having the right to a poll".
Dullard actually goes further than Day by saying that amalgamation is the 'fairer process' and not just because it give electors the right to a poll.
This is even more illuminating than Day's statement, as Helen Dullard is a member of the Local Government Advisory Board that made the recommendations and that could, if it wished, have amended the proposal it accepted to define it as amalgamation.
Since the Minister's declaration that conflicts of interest did not apply in the LGAB metropolitan reform process came well before completion of the LGAB's assessments, she was able to mount these arguments but presumably was unable to convince more than one other member.*
* A recommendation of the LGAB requires an absolute majority. Since the LGAB has five members, that means three needed to vote for each recommendation.
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