Ambitious spending

By Nasik Swami Naracoorte-Lucindale mayor Patrick Ross has defended the council’s ambitious spending on livestreaming council meetings to the public. The council has spent $72,472 for the supply and installation of the live streaming and recording systems in the current council chambers. The previous council had included $40,000 in its budget to enable meetings to be livestreamed, but that never happened. Based on recommendations purely from the council’s IT team, the new council added $32,472, bringing the total spend to $72,472 on the purchase of the livestreaming equipment. In a public letter, former mayor Bill Pomery questioned the council’s spending of ratepayer funds on live streaming the meetings. He asked, “Does the livestreaming merit such a large amount of rate payer money when the meetings were open to the public and media coverage was excellent?” In response, Mr Ross said he wouldn’t be able to tell whether this was a […]

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