Aims and visions
“My main aim is simple. I will give the Residents of Division 9 a stronger voice in Council and I promise to always put the needs of the community first. You are my priority."
There is a clear, undeniable and underpinning responsibility of a Councillor and that is to represent the residents who have elected them into their positions.
The local Government Act 2009, Chapter 2, Part 1, section 12 states: “Responsibilities of Councillors (1) A councillor must represent the current and future interests of the residents of the local government area.”
My vision
I don’t want our beautiful region to turn in to a metropolis. I don’t want endless new housing estates with no soul. I don’t want parking problems and streets with no footpaths.
I want our Council to help climate control at the local level. I want our Council to be efficient with resources so we can reduce levies.I want to assist with affordable housing. I want to remove red tape. I want kerbside rubbish collections and free dump vouchers. I want sealed roads in rural areas and on school bus routes. I want more community recreation areas and bike lanes. I want our kids to be safe, and I want our elderly citizens to be cared for. I want our small businesses to prosper.
For these reasons I have nominated for the position of Councillor, Division 9, in the 13th March elections, and I would like to ask for your support.
As your Councillor, I will:
* Be independent
* Listen to you
*Improve core services
* Manage growth carefully
* Aim to reduce levies
Bruce’s aims and vision for Division 9 include:
- Enforcing Council's core responsibilities.
- Increasing council services to provide ratepayer value for money.
- Continuing to seal, maintain and upgrade urban and rural roads (particularly school bus routes). Attend to dangerous road sections and intersections.
- More (and wider) footpaths, designated bike lanes.
- Council to upgrade its main community recreation areas. Particularly parks, gardens and facilities. Apply more streetscaping and landscaping to public areas.
- Assist in providing affordable housing.
- Council to do its own kerbside cleanups and issue 2 tip vouchers per year to ratepayers.
- Committing to keeping rate increases low by creating new revenue streams.
- Providing much-needed infrastructure by attracting greater funding from State and Federal governments.
- Fostering ongoing community support and input into Council’s processes.
- Striving to achieve sustainability in finances, the environment and important community and social structure.
- Controlling and managing area-appropriate development both locally and region-wide.
- Maintaining and promoting the unique identities of each of our communities.
- Promoting alternative/public transport.
- Removing unnecessary council levies. These levies increase rates by stealth.
- Providing and fostering support for youth facilities and programs.
- Supporting community projects.
- Listening to community concerns and fostering an open, transparent and accessible relationship with residents.
- Personally dealing with current local issues as well as planning for the future.