ARE FREMANTLE PROJECTS FUNDED BY RATEPAYERS’ MONEY OR NOT?

Not all is as some want it to appear, as the above Where Your Rates Go by the City of Fremantle shows on this link: https://bit.ly/3PPlZXY

Closer inspection shows that not all the projects are paid for by ratepayers and that quite a few of them are suspended, so is this link maybe a bit of disingenuous spin by Fremantle Council?

For example the claim that $ 920,000 will be spent on the Naval Store at Cantonment Hill, turns out to be fully funded by lessee Enkel, but the project is indefinitely suspended anyway.

According to Hilton Councillor Ben Lawver the $ 767,570 for underground power in the area is fully funded by local residents and does not cost the City of Fremantle a cent.

There is also a play space renewal in the area for $ 544,495 but $ 200,000 comes from the Federal Government.

I very much like it when Fremantle Council tells us what they are doing and where ratepayers’ money is spent, but for transparency clarity they should also let us know how much money comes out of ratepayers’ money, and how much comes from state and federal grants or others. Boasting about achievements with other people’s money is not great form.

Roel Loopers