Dear Jeff,
thanks for your email updating me
on the feedback you are receiving wrt to the CWF, and might I just say
congratulations (from an 'admin' perspective) - it is great to see the
collected responses (to date) of the candidates (those that have
responded so far) on this issue but most importantly all in one place -
it allows a real appreciation for the range of responses. Some weasel
spin words in some of them.... :)
and a pity that council decisions aren't also so
plainly visible. If elected I would hope to make this part of the
council process more obvious.
WRAG has certainly become much more very sophisticated, which is great to see.
I have had some time to go over the responses and your
earlier email, and find that I am tending to agree with two logical
approaches that are important to me :
1) if
council has made a legally binding decision then this needs to be
carried through, so in that respect I would support the defined usage of
the CWF as outlined by previous council. If this decision could be
changed then I would consider support this also, eg if we can find a
suitable piece of crown land (as offerred by Andrew constance/NSW Gov)
and whatever other important factors line up to make it feasible. Big
ifs here...
My understanding with this offer is that it is merely
lip service at this stage - the council would still have to find and
investigate the land, do an EIS and explain to the larger community the
benefit of moving the CWF after so much time and money has already been
wasted.
2) however, when the facts change, I am inclined to change my mind as well....
But I don't think the facts have changed here.
Whilst
one of my key positions is to be proactive for the tech sector and
innovation in general, in this context I am not sure of what the
increased value this NBN faciltiy brings to the shire if located in the
CWF - it is an upload satelite station, whom will relocate a small
number of skilled staff from elsewhere to man it, and it wont bring the
NBN to our region any faster....there are many other accessible mountain
tops with good satellite access in the BVS, so I don't understand the
necessity for this to be part of the CWF.
I hope this clarifies my position with you
cheers
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