Inveresk
THE University move to Inveresk has again received comment from Malcolm Scott and Geoff Mclean but they miss the central issue.
The university has promised 10000 additional students from their proposal.
If that’s the promise, make it part of their contractual obligation to council with financial penalties for non-performance.
This is the ‘social dividend’ that ratepayers expect for giving valuable free land to the university; this is the economic and social benefit that is proper ‘payment’.
Of course the university is terrified of such a commitment because no one really believes the hyperbole. Other than university spruikers not one informed senior staff believes it.
They have stripped courses, staff and functions from the north and downgraded the campus.
As it is said, ‘by their fruits shall you know them’ and their actions tell it all.
Put in writing the promise to build a campus of 10000 extra students over ten years and I will give my total support to the university’s plan.
Without it, it is a sham.
— DR MICHAEL POWELL, Launceston.
1 comment:
Spot on.
For we ratepayers the central issue is "why specifically, did our Council decide that a return to ratepayers was not required as a fundamental part of the transaction? Why were ratepayers' assets offered free?
And if Council thinks that we can afford to give an asset worth $4 million dollars or so, does that mean no rate rises in the coming year?
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