Don’t channel CCTV funding elsewhere

Noted in the latest Gazette that Baw Baw Shire was awarded a federal grant of $92.083 for CCTV cameras in Queen Street.

Now for such a specific amount one must presume council got the grant that they requested.

But Phil Cantillon of the council advises that their placement will be decided after community consultation and worryingly throws in that it will be part of Warragul's streetscape programme.

One would have thought that for an exact amount of money the positioning of cameras would have to have already been decided otherwise how does council know that $92,083 is correct.

I do hope none of the money is being diverted to any streetscape project.

On another note, congratulations to Russell Broadbent for getting his photograph in The Gazette at an opening that was not an opening. Bob Graham Yarragon the past, has shown a respectable concern for asylum seekers.

Sadly, Mr Broadbent has not lived up to this compassionate image and has been silent on all vulnerable people, whether they are those in the miserable gulags on Manus and Nauru or those others on welfare on Australian soil, who suffer the degradation of poverty and homelessness.

I want compassionate local and national representation that works for everybody. I would also like to remind all McMillan constituents that a well functioning society is judged on how well it treats its most vulnerable. Jennifer Meyer-Smith Drouin