Where are the parking inspectors?

Have you seen the invisible man lately? Well I haven’t either.

By invisible man I mean our so called parking inspector, whom I am told is employed by our shire to keep people from overstaying in public parking areas.

Everyone knows how hard it is parking anywhere in Warragul, and I haven’t heard of people being booked for overstaying the time limit, or unauthorised cars without permits using the embarrassingly short supply of disabled parking areas.

On top of that take a drive any evening down a Warragul residential area to see cats and dogs running free and unattended.

Where is the appropriate shire employee who oversees these by-laws? Another invisible man? Too right.

Ratepayers should be yelling at council to get these people off their office chairs and out doing the rounds. Being seen doing the job will win council more bouquets than brickbats.

Fines from offenders would soon cover the cost of these officers.

Now don’t get me started again on the multilevel car park for William Street.

Neville Pellitt, Warragul

This proposal is totally wrong not only for Yarragon but for the whole surrounding area.

It will not add anything to what is existing, only take away greatly and all to line the coffers of big business. David Trewern, Yarragon

I live in Warragul and have a second property with my three sons.

We are renovating the joint property and need to take rubbish to the tip.

I rang the tip and was advised you have to register and will have to show your driver’s licence when you arrive.

You are allowed two tip passes per year based on the address on the driver’s licence.

I explained I had a second property but was told by the tip staff and confirmed by Baw Baw Shire that they want to make it fair for tenants to take rubbish to the tip.

I replied that we pay the rates and not the tenant.

I was told that is now the rule. I replied that maybe you should make all tenants pay rates.

And now the shire has increased my residential rates due this month.

Catherine Holland, Warragul ridiculous set of tax based financial criteria was applied, and the former provision for properties contributing to environmental outcomes (eg tree planting) were also able to be considered. Before this “review” was even finished, rate notices were sent out so clearly some ratepayers were already to be targeted.

The re-introduction of roadside collection of hard rubbish has also had the “unintended” result that rural citizens who cannot get a roadside collection (who used to get two vouchers per property) now get only one.

Where were the rural councillors when these attacks of their constituents were being mounted by the administration?

It certainly looks, as Trevor Collins has suggested, that the shire is finding every mean and tricky way they can to get around rate capping.

Paul Strickland, Cloverlea