This really makes my blood boil. Someone from this council is surely going to end up in jail sooner or later.
How much time and money have they already wasted on nevereding community consultations regarding Brookvale over the past three years. In every one the response from the community could not have been any more clear cut. The only person on the online community forum against keeping Brookvale as the Eagles home ground was a councillor who refused to officially disclose this fact to the online community. Its one of the most disturbing abuses of power I have ever seen as this lone crusader posted daily attacks against every member of the Warringah community that presented their ideas for the upgrade. What she didn't do was actually officially disclose who she was and what her position was. If that is not a blatant abuse of power I don't know what is. It should have resulted in immediate disciplinary action.
Whilst this never-ending time wasting was happening in relation to Brookvale, this council was spending 10's of millions on walking tracks, bike lanes and now 'community' Gestapo gardens. These projects attracted virtually no response during the community consultation process because nobody wanted them, needed them or asked for them. Amazingly, the council actually managed to apply for and receive millions in Federal Funding for some of these projects under the 'Community Infrastructure Grants' programme prior to doing any community consultation.
This funding was organised at the peak of the Federal Stimulas frenzy and at the same time they were applying for it they were running this farce Brookvale Park consultation asking people who should pay for the upgrade. Warringah got their walkways while Newcastle, St George and the Gold Coast applied for and received 10's of millions to upgrade their Stadiums under this exact same grant at the exact same time.
Oh yeah, where is that balance of the $6mil in funding provided by the former State Labor Government for Brookvale? I don't know where it is but I can definitely tell you where you won't find it. Don't bother looking through any of Warringah Councils public budget papers or balance sheets because you won't find it there.