Rate rise for Palerang Shire

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Nope. With amalgamation, they made “bigger” councils. Qbn City Council got surrounding rural areas that used to be Yarrowlumla. Then the bits of Yarrowlumla nearer Bungendore (further east, basically) were part of Palerang, which is based around Bungendore and Braidwood.

The new Qbn area extends onto Captain’s Flat Road, and stops around Clydesdale Estate, about 6kms in.

I thought QBN was under the Palerang label ?

Half of our district got put with Queanbeyan, the other half got put with Palerang. The Queanbeyan ones are paying a fraction what we’re paying. The only services I consume are when they put some black stuff in a pot hole. That’s worth $600 a year?

Thats the Palerang Council for you… at what point in time did it ever make a sound decision.

this is utter BS. What a f-ing joke. 85% of residents voted AGAINST the special rate rise. they amalgamated a solid council (Yarrowlumla) with a lame-duck joke council, Talleganda. So we inherited crumbling infrastructure, and first year of this, they slap these huge rate rises, which saw people nearer canberra paying tons more, because our properties were worth more! to pay for the easterners failure to stay solvent. this year, the western-based councillors want to spread the pain, the eastern-based want to keep claiming that the westerners should pay for them, and those of us who live in rural areas are asking, what the hell are we paying for? We get NO services, and don’t want them either. Yet we are expected to pay for all kinds of nonsense in the towns, plus subsidise the eastern side of the new shire.

If the other amalgamations are as dreadful as this one, I don’t know where it’ll end.