Rate Payer Feedback Form - Other Project Objections & New Project Recommendations
Most hard copy rate payer feedback forms viewed/received stated realistic everyday issues they want MICC to fix, besides their public proclamations announcing their fierce objections to the 6% MICC proposed rate rise price hike increase as detailed below;
MICC to focus on fixing the real issues in Mount Isa and Camooweal, which needs to include suburb improvements, upgrades and beautification instead of always focussing on the CBD and pleasing minority groups living in Mount Isa. MICC & the Councillors are more concerned about tourism than the locals and long term rate payers, who are paying and funding all these projects with very little to no benefits for us and the entire community.
Fix our roads properly (everyone’s sick and tired of driving over potholes and openings showing up even after the smallest rainfall, which has caused damage to our vehicles. Decent roadworks maintenance contractors need to be sourced and engaged (at reasonable quoted prices) to carry out this road works efficiently and effectively, so our road surfaces remain intact for many years.
Lighting problems in outer suburbs and parts of towns main roads (eg. Abel smith parade, Trainor st, East st, Pamela st, Urqhuart st) Night driving can be very scary and dangerous when you can’t see people walking on and near the side of these unlit main roads) Lighting steel mesh covers/protectors could be utilised to protect lights getting constantly damaged.
Arterial heavy truck/road train bypass road needs to be designed, developed and built to stop heavy truck and road trains traffic driving through our main roads and within the CBD. This will improve road safety for locals driving and walking on our towns main and CBD roadways whilst also improving road conditions and reducing costly road repairs and maintenance through out the year.
Rate payers don’t want their rates money wasted on unappealing bronze statues costing rate payers $100,000+ per statue, placed around town (They believe this town has enough to satisfy the tourists)
Excessive rate payer money spent on the ridiculous amount of work always being carried out in the CBD, whilst neglecting all other suburbs of Mount Isa & Camooweal to appease all the Tourists and visiting so called important dignitaries to our town.
Many suburbs are seriously lacking recreational and entertainment fun parks for children and families. Fun and Skate parks are always planned and built on one side of town, denying and prejudicing the children and families living in other certain suburbs of Mount Isa. (Security lighting, Police/PLO drive by behaviour and conduct checks, recreational and entertainment equipment should be built from robust, strong, durable materials for longevity and cost saving effectiveness.
A sturdy cement skate bowl style set up needs to be built in Pioneer/Sunset, which would assist to reduce the community’s widespread youth boredom problems and any attempt at improving and reducing the towns ongoing youth crime community issues.
Community consultation needs to be offered to rate payers and other community members on a more regular basis and held in a neutral and friendlier environment setting instead of MICC’s stifled, controlled and official Council chambers.
MICC needs to hold more inclusive and transparent rate payer community meetings, to guide better planning and decision making, particularly when discussing and proposing sizeable financial project commitments, which detrimentally affect the entire community as a whole.
Councillors behaviour and conduct in Council meetings are despicable, self-centred, immature, aggressive, disrespectful and extremely unprofessional. Rate payers are extremely embarrassed these councillors who are supposed to be our communities representatives and future community drivers have been publicly manipulative and deliberately operating against and voting in opposition to the Mayor (Daniele Slade) to benefit an ex-Council work colleague as well serve their own inflated ego’s and selfish community driven agendas.
Photo attached (pretty photos of Cr George Fortune from MICC Website) FYI & incase you see them on our streets and would like to have your direct say and thoughts about their proposed ridiculous rate rise increase and Pay rise.