WE FIGHT ON DESPITE COUNCIL VOTE

Residents of the Blue Mountains are entitled to know more about the large amount of money apparently lost in sub-prime investments made by the Blue Mountains City Council in the U.S. Our money that is!
Was it two, four or six million dollars , or was it even more? I know that not all councils in NSW were foolish enough to invest in this scheme. Did money change hands as a commission one wonders? and to whom was it paid? We have a right to know the answers.
We recently phoned Council about the possibility of forming a volunteer group to assist in restoring the unique contour map of Australia sculpture in Wilson Park, Lawson. wilsonparklawson.blogspot.com
I was told that Council had absolutely no money to spend on assistance for any project like this.
More neglect for Lawson! The unique contour map is actually the only one of its kind in Australia, built in 1932.
Where has all our money gone? Down the drain in a dodgy US scheme that's where!!!

Now, the majority of Councillors, thanks to Mayor Angel's casting vote, want the 104 year old Mechanics Institute Hall demolished, and soon! Yet the highway widening outside the hall is still years away. The reason for the hasty destruction of the hall and for what purpose we will eventually find out. It definitely isn't for the widening of the highway as they have been telling us for years.

We now discover after the amazing offer by RTA, that to demolish the old hall is actually more expensive than it is to retain it!

To borrow from a famous statement. If demolition takes place, Van Der Kley, Hamilton , Angel and other councillors will be remembered forever as the Councillors who broke the hearts of the people of Lawson and the Blue Mountains.

Congratulations councillors, at least you will be remembered for something.
A puzzle that is concerning many of us is that while Councillors are asking for government funding at this stage, they have never investigated any avenues of applying for any in the past.
It would appear a deal has been struck somewhere, sometime with a developer.