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Thursday, October 04, 2012
Facebook & the Shire Election
In the lead up to council elections, what is the biggest issue affecting your vote? (let's keep it clean guys, no personal attacks)
Go to this FACEBOOK page and add your comments:
The more we ask the Shire to do the more rates we pay! We need a way of getting revenue without increasing rates. My suggestion is to allow the building more houses as each household then pays rates. Coldstream could expand to fit another 1200 houses and that is another 1200 rates. At least 500 cat or dog licences. The potential of 2200 more people to fine for having too many pets or parking on the nature strip! The potential of more government funding. WE NEED GROWTH TO STIMULATE THE SHIRE.
Mario, I agree another 1200 houses will generate another $1.6 Million in rates less rubbish collection costs, but dont encourage them with more penalty opportunities and the rates collections will quickly dissapear into more council parking inspector wages.
We are lucky none of the candidates have promised a free ferry service on the Yarra as Robert Doyle has done in Melbourne.
Surely, you have noticed the trend of Candidates becoming popular by promising to give and be generous with other peoples money...the Greeks turned it into an art and our Federal Government is doing it now, the States do it too but less obviously and now the Free Ferry idea just confirms what has been going on for some years in Local Government by mortgaging the assets of those that have for the benefit of the have nots who outnumber the haves by many times over and who also vote with that idea in mind in all three tiers of government including I'd speculate in the Shire elections.
Will be an interesting result of our Socialistic Democracy in action to elect our dictators & rulers for another term.
It seems that most candidates are having a bet each way due to the nature of electioneering these days and one is leaving us in the total dark by expecting us to quess their policies or remember what they were like last time they were in 15 years ago. The only clue we have is the way the candidates have set out their voting preferences and that Healesville continues to be the centre of power and influence.
Would like to know the socio economic makeup of the Healesville area which I suspect would accord with my conclusions in my previous post.
The election results will be interesting if we can find out the stats on how the Yarra Glen and Coldstream voters and or landowners voted and how many voters voted on the {brand} name they remembered or were prepared to try someone new with new ideas.
I'm finding the Obama Vs Romney election contest more interesting and I'm convinced Obama will win no matter how convincing Romney sounds in the debates. Mitt Romney cant reduce the deficit by reducing taxes and you cant win votes by reducing social security and food stamps or by not looking after the unemployed. How can increasing beggars improve America? Gee how lucky are we in Australian?
3945 Page views last month Mario. Have you ever being able to find out who is looking at your blog site? Do any of your local growers pop in to have a look at your weather stats or other posts?
I'm getting a number of Taiwanese fruit pickers contacting me again looking for work and more will as they start arriving in October.
I offer accommodation for Aussies who dont like working and Taiwanese Uni students who if they get work in Taiwan earn about $3 per hour but as fruit pickers in Australia they can earn up to $19.50 per hour. They move between Qld to Tamworth to Mildura, Shepparton to Yarra Valley between Oct- May.
We are lucky they and others from France, Holland, UK keep coming otherwise those asparagus or strawberries will have to be imported because none of the lazy aussies on welfare want to do that type back breaking work.
I maintain that our Planning laws are inadequate to expect fruit pickers to either sleep on camp ground stretchers after doinghard work or pay top dollar for accommodation when we have perfectly suitable bedrooms spread across the Yarra Ranges with comfy beds which are deemed illegal to use for that short term purpose without needing to change to a Class 1b building and all the hassles associated with dealing with the KGB & Commissars at Shire Hall.
Luckily I have a registered premises in Lilydale to offer some a place to sleep on a comfy bed, but I certainly hope some of your readers have raised these issues with the Planning Minister.
Gill The weather station is run by a Coldstream local, Robert Bethall.
I do get a few people coming in to see me. In the main, they want to see Coldstream EXPAND. They know I have been asking for this for over a decade and have great support from a lot of them but not the present council.
Let's hope the next council is less green and can help!
3945 Page views last month must be a record. Makes me happy, BUT, I wish more would comment like yourself.
To be fair the Council is currently looking at supporting options to increasing the population in Coldstream by increasing accommodation options and increasing the transient population by about 5%, but unfortunately it wont result in expanding the housing development zone which would have been a better option. Such an increase would help IGA and the liquor stores the most.
Coldstream could hardly be regarded as the best holiday destination due to its colder weather during winter and the high utility costs to sustain such a population during winter.
It wont solve the problem that the local trades workforce need to travel outside of Yarra Ranges to find work every day and we also now have builders who refuse to take on house building or extensions in the Yarra Ranges due to the reluctance to deal with the commissars at Shire Hall.
The Council has objected to increasing the B & B allowable tourist numbers from 6 to 10 as proposed by Planning Minister Matthew Guy.
The council also continues to slant its policy view to discourage speculation to keep farmland as cheap as possible to allow current farmers to buy in at a non speculative housing value content basis. However in so doing are doing a disservice for current property owners who may wish to sell at a reasonable free market price or to borrow from banks.
This type of policy is the type of Planned Economy you find in dictatorships and communist countries and I dont bellieve it is the role of local government to discourage the turnover of property sales by promoting such policies.
Slowing down turnover with such socialistic policies also affects State Revenues which takes 6% on purchase prices which reduces the ability of the State to do what the local councils themselves want.
The delay and loss of State Revenue occurs every day in every council in Victoria and usually based on silly miniscule points of process or based on the ego of a commissar in all councils areas. The state govt also misses out when people give up on projects which go on for so long or that banks change their own lending policies due to changed economic purposes.
In my opinion when the economy and banks are lending freely is the best time to encourage property owners to get their permits before the banking cycle turns sour again which I have seen occur many times when I was involved in institutional lending. But what 'developers' often experience is a gruelling process going through council bureaucracies which wear out some people who just give up or the banks pull out support. In fact the Republic of Dandenong is now such a council where banks dont want to provide funds due to the long winded procedures and demands put on developers.
One project in Boxhill South took so long to proceed that even though the developer had presold 90% of the units when it came to getting the money his bank had approved for its construction, the bank admitted in court that it just did not have the funds to proceed. The bank had to ration the limited lending funds it did have for its other customers. Consequently the developer had to sell in a distress situation and the whilst the State govt got the Stamp Duty on the purchase of the repurchase of the land, it missed out on the Stamp duty on the eventual resale of some of those 40 units, the builders missed out on businesses, the building trades missed out on work and the building suppliers missed out on all that new business.
Despite the 'bad' name developers are lumbered with...the fact is in the process of achieving their 'selfish' profit motives...they actually create work for people, new business for businesses and housing options for people which last longer than a couple years. Yet we have Greenie Tax funded government officials who prefer things remain the same as when John Batman arrived in Victoria. That recipe of discouraging business activity results in situations where more of some of our economy relying on capital sales or borrowings which the extreme consequencess can be seen in the streets of Greece.
When our treasury politicians put their heads in the sand ....they are passing the buck onto the next generation by delaying the inevitable. Maybe they are right that we should live it up now and keep borrowing and keep selling farms and businesses to generate the illusion of wealth in our country from the capital revenue such as the sale of $hundreds of millions of farmlands, foreign purchases of local businesses, the sale of Telstra, CBA, Qantas, to name a few is just a clever way of making it look like we are awash with business activity when maybe we are just living off our capital and our politicians are hoping the Greece problem will hit us in the next generation after they are long gone and forgotten.
Would it help to encourage others to comment if I made some more contraversial comments Mario? Not sure how far I should go on your blog.lol I think many people dont have time to comment, others feel too embarrassed to make comments in case they make grammatical errors like I often make and others are fearful of letting others know their views. Thats how free our society has become, but at least I'm thankful to you Mario that you'll let me make my comments.
9 comments:
The more we ask the Shire to do the more rates we pay! We need a way of getting revenue without increasing rates. My suggestion is to allow the building more houses as each household then pays rates. Coldstream could expand to fit another 1200 houses and that is another 1200 rates. At least 500 cat or dog licences. The potential of 2200 more people to fine for having too many pets or parking on the nature strip! The potential of more government funding. WE NEED GROWTH TO STIMULATE THE SHIRE.
Mario, I agree another 1200 houses will generate another $1.6 Million in rates less rubbish collection costs, but dont encourage them with more penalty opportunities and the rates collections will quickly dissapear into more council parking inspector wages.
We are lucky none of the candidates have promised a free ferry service on the Yarra as Robert Doyle has done in Melbourne.
Surely, you have noticed the trend of Candidates becoming popular by promising to give and be generous with other peoples money...the Greeks turned it into an art and our Federal Government is doing it now, the States do it too but less obviously and now the Free Ferry idea just confirms what has been going on for some years in Local Government by mortgaging the assets of those that have for the benefit of the have nots who outnumber the haves by many times over and who also vote with that idea in mind in all three tiers of government including I'd speculate in the Shire elections.
Will be an interesting result of our Socialistic Democracy in action to elect our dictators & rulers for another term.
add 1200 permit fees as well!
It seems that most candidates are having a bet each way due to the nature of electioneering these days and one is leaving us in the total dark by expecting us to quess their policies or remember what they were like last time they were in 15 years ago. The only clue we have is the way the candidates have set out their voting preferences and that Healesville continues to be the centre of power and influence.
Would like to know the socio economic makeup of the Healesville area which I suspect would accord with my conclusions in my previous post.
The election results will be interesting if we can find out the stats on how the Yarra Glen and Coldstream voters and or landowners voted and how many voters voted on the {brand} name they remembered or were prepared to try someone new with new ideas.
I'm finding the Obama Vs Romney election contest more interesting and I'm convinced Obama will win no matter how convincing Romney sounds in the debates. Mitt Romney cant reduce the deficit by reducing taxes and you cant win votes by reducing social security and food stamps or by not looking after the unemployed. How can increasing beggars improve America? Gee how lucky are we in Australian?
3945 Page views last month Mario. Have you ever being able to find out who is looking at your blog site? Do any of your local growers pop in to have a look at your weather stats or other posts?
I'm getting a number of Taiwanese fruit pickers contacting me again looking for work and more will as they start arriving in October.
I offer accommodation for Aussies who dont like working and Taiwanese Uni students who if they get work in Taiwan earn about $3 per hour but as fruit pickers in Australia they can earn up to $19.50 per hour. They move between Qld to Tamworth to Mildura, Shepparton to Yarra Valley between Oct- May.
We are lucky they and others from France, Holland, UK keep coming otherwise those asparagus or strawberries will have to be imported because none of the lazy aussies on welfare want to do that type back breaking work.
I maintain that our Planning laws are inadequate to expect fruit pickers to either sleep on camp ground stretchers after doinghard work or pay top dollar for accommodation when we have perfectly suitable bedrooms spread across the Yarra Ranges with comfy beds which are deemed illegal to use for that short term purpose without needing to change to a Class 1b building and all the hassles associated with dealing with the KGB & Commissars at Shire Hall.
Luckily I have a registered premises in Lilydale to offer some a place to sleep on a comfy bed, but I certainly hope some of your readers have raised these issues with the Planning Minister.
Gill
The weather station is run by a Coldstream local, Robert Bethall.
I do get a few people coming in to see me. In the main, they want to see Coldstream EXPAND. They know I have been asking for this for over a decade and have great support from a lot of them but not the present council.
Let's hope the next council is less green and can help!
3945 Page views last month must be a record. Makes me happy, BUT, I wish more would comment like yourself.
To be fair the Council is currently looking at supporting options to increasing the population in Coldstream by increasing accommodation options and increasing the transient population by about 5%, but unfortunately it wont result in expanding the housing development zone which would have been a better option. Such an increase would help IGA and the liquor stores the most.
Coldstream could hardly be regarded as the best holiday destination due to its colder weather during winter and the high utility costs to sustain such a population during winter.
It wont solve the problem that the local trades workforce need to travel outside of Yarra Ranges to find work every day and we also now have builders who refuse to take on house building or extensions in the Yarra Ranges due to the reluctance to deal with the commissars at Shire Hall.
The Council has objected to increasing the B & B allowable tourist numbers from 6 to 10 as proposed by Planning Minister Matthew Guy.
The council also continues to slant its policy view to discourage speculation to keep farmland as cheap as possible to allow current farmers to buy in at a non speculative housing value content basis. However in so doing are doing a disservice for current property owners who may wish to sell at a reasonable free market price or to borrow from banks.
This type of policy is the type of Planned Economy you find in dictatorships and communist countries and I dont bellieve it is the role of local government to discourage the turnover of property sales by promoting such policies.
Slowing down turnover with such socialistic policies also affects State Revenues which takes 6% on purchase prices which reduces the ability of the State to do what the local councils themselves want.
The delay and loss of State Revenue occurs every day in every council in Victoria and usually based on silly miniscule points of process or based on the ego of a commissar in all councils areas. The state govt also misses out when people give up on projects which go on for so long or that banks change their own lending policies due to changed economic purposes.
In my opinion when the economy and banks are lending freely is the best time to encourage property owners to get their permits before the banking cycle turns sour again which I have seen occur many times when I was involved in institutional lending. But what 'developers' often experience is a gruelling process going through council bureaucracies which wear out some people who just give up or the banks pull out support. In fact the Republic of Dandenong is now such a council where banks dont want to provide funds due to the long winded procedures and demands put on developers.
One project in Boxhill South took so long to proceed that even though the developer had presold 90% of the units when it came to getting the money his bank had approved for its construction, the bank admitted in court that it just did not have the funds to proceed. The bank had to ration the limited lending funds it did have for its other customers. Consequently the developer had to sell in a distress situation and the whilst the State govt got the Stamp Duty on the purchase of the repurchase of the land, it missed out on the Stamp duty on the eventual resale of some of those 40 units, the builders missed out on businesses, the building trades missed out on work and the building suppliers missed out on all that new business.
Despite the 'bad' name developers are lumbered with...the fact is in the process of achieving their 'selfish' profit motives...they actually create work for people, new business for businesses and housing options for people which last longer than a couple years. Yet we have Greenie Tax funded government officials who prefer things remain the same as when John Batman arrived in Victoria. That recipe of discouraging business activity results in situations where more of some of our economy relying on capital sales or borrowings which the extreme consequencess can be seen in the streets of Greece.
When our treasury politicians put their heads in the sand ....they are passing the buck onto the next generation by delaying the inevitable. Maybe they are right that we should live it up now and keep borrowing and keep selling farms and businesses to generate the illusion of wealth in our country from the capital revenue such as the sale of $hundreds of millions of farmlands, foreign purchases of local businesses, the sale of Telstra, CBA, Qantas, to name a few is just a clever way of making it look like we are awash with business activity when maybe we are just living off our capital and our politicians are hoping the Greece problem will hit us in the next generation after they are long gone and forgotten.
Would it help to encourage others to comment if I made some more contraversial comments Mario? Not sure how far I should go on your blog.lol I think many people dont have time to comment, others feel too embarrassed to make comments in case they make grammatical errors like I often make and others are fearful of letting others know their views. Thats how free our society has become, but at least I'm thankful to you Mario that you'll let me make my comments.
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