Well! Our council sells one of our best community buildings in secret.
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I wonder is this to subsidise our worst; who could ever want to buy its replacement? Or to attend a group class there?
Comparing respective running costs might be interesting, and with a proper triple bottom line.
Now then, which of the two buildings is the under-performing asset?
Is our shire now just a cashbox and a coal seam? A business?
The useful Old Council Chamber offers comfort, intimate size, acoustics, accessibility and amenity unmatched in Scone.
It is well used and much needed.
Profit would increase with time.
The library and resource centre need stability, as do we all.
The building has long been an item of local significance on the LEP Environmental Heritage Register.
How can council ignore the historic merit of its own chamber, to allow it to be cut up for offices?
The cash couldn’t replace the shire’s public treasure and amenity.
Goodbye, a piece of quality life, and sadly, our trust in council.
Commerce needs to support community, not betray it.
Councillors are supposed to tell people if takeover plans threaten public investment and amenity; and to seek guidance from their electorate.
I believe council’s first duty is to the people, not to its own purse; and certainly not to a single casual purchaser.
With no pressure to amalgamate, this council is in no way forced to sell its grandmother to appease the state!
Even Baird doesn’t direct councils to degrade their people’s lifestyle for profit.
Even he pretends to ‘consult’ a little, when planning to use public proceeds from our port’s sale to destroy our intercity rail amenity and a city with it, for developers’ profit.
Let’s hope our council will not act against other Scone assets including the one remaining park, using this money.
I can’t see how the sale of the library building could be regular and valid.
I hope it is properly annulled and ethics restored, before precipitate waste and destruction robs us of an irreplaceable, finely performing asset.