June 7, 2016, 8:20 p.m.... CLICK HERE
A public meeting to discuss the City of Launceston’s transfer of land to the University of Tasmania has been postponed for two weeks due to the ongoing flood emergency. ......... The public meeting at the Albert Hall in Launceston on Tuesday. ......... About 100 people filed into the Albert Hall just before 7pm on Tuesday to attend the meeting, which had been organised in early May. ......... A motion to postpone the meeting until June 21 was put to the floor just after chair Don Wing was appointed. ......... A number of attendees spoke to the motion, many urging the meeting to support it, but some voicing their disappointment at the “waste of time.” ......... Former alderman Basil Fitch told the meeting that petitioners had tried to persuade the council to postpone the meeting throughout Monday and Tuesday. ......... Launceston general manager Robert Dobrzynski said the council had been in a difficult position because he did not believe they had the “prerogative to make unilateral decisions” on cancellation. ......... He said the decision had been to convene the meeting and then the meeting could determine whether to postpone in fairness to all parties. ......... A petition on the UTAS land transfer deal was presented to council in March. ......... The petition called on the council to hold a public meeting on the decision to transfer the Willis Street Car Park and Old Velodrome. ......... It also called on council to rescind the transfer passed at the meeting of November 9, 2015, and for the land to be placed for sale on the open market with a reserve auction price of $5 million.
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The fact that this meeting happened at all is an indictment of the councillor’s abilities to look after people’s well being. The general manager saying that he didn’t believe that he had the authority to call it off is simply nonsense. Every other time he is very quick to tell everyone who asks him that he has it under the council legislation. It looks like he tells the councillors just that on almost every other occasion he wants to override them. Just have a talk with a councillor and they will tell you that he knows the extent of his authority off by heart. A bit shabby saying this now me thinks.
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The Stillwater Restaurant is telling people to stay safe and they are shutting their doors at least until tomorrow. A pity the council management is so self serving and careless about the city's people. We can wait to celebrate our aniversary
https://www.facebook.com/Stillwater-Restaurant-112886058750780/?fref=nf
I felt so safe (NOT) last night at the Albert Hall because the first faces to welcome us were the 3 porky security staff. I wondered if they had surf life saving certificates coz the Hall is in the same danger flood zone as Inveresk, and at Inveresk residents were being evacuated to the Newnham University, well above the flood plain.
Someone must have thought that the crowd was going to get out of control and arrive with flaming pitchforks or suchlike. Clearly costs were not a issue for Council as we were lulled into passiveness by soft background music, plush velvet chairs and starched tablecloths.
The Mayor and shiny bum aldermen and Germanic looking manager admitted they were incapable, so thank goodness that the audience took charge and out of obvious respect for Invermay residents that were not able to abandon their evacuation to get themselves to the Hall, directed everyone to cease the meeting and go back home.
There will be another time for pitchforks later and the next aldermanic election is looking sweet.
This story The Examiner IN PRINT has been reduced to this " A planned public meeting to discuss the City of Launceston’s decision to transfer land to the University of Tasmania was postponed fo two weeks due to the ongoing flood emergency." ... who's pulling what strings tro save who's skin .... This is disgusting manipulative journalism and someone needs to do something about it!! ... GOTCHA Robert Dobrzynski
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