Highlights of Bathurst candidate forum

WATCH: Hear some of the discussion around a special rate variation at the Bathurst council election candidate forum on August 20, 2024.

Transcript

00:00I definitely will not support a rate rise.

00:24Everyone is doing it tough at the moment, cost of living has gone up for everybody.

00:29Interest rates have gone up, rents have gone up, food costs have gone up, power has gone

00:35up.

00:36The last thing we need is for our rates to go up as well.

00:39My platform, and I've said it since about 2010, is we've talked in council regularly

00:48and often about a special rate variation, an increase, yes an increase, it is a business

00:56as William O'Hara just said, it is a business and we have to increase our revenue, how do

01:00you increase the revenue?

01:01Sadly, I don't like it, but it has to happen.

01:07The rates, we had the opportunity and we lost it.