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THEY drop out of the sky like mechanical angels, load the sick and injured, and off they go again, heading for one of the state’s top hospitals. Last week it was the Emergency Management Queensland chopper, pictured, which transported an elderly man to hospital in Brisbane. On Tuesday it was RACQ Careflight’s turn after a two-year-old Toowoomba boy was flown to Mater Children’s Hospital amid concerns he had been bitten by a snake after his parents saw one slithering away. They applied a compression bandage and called for assistance as a precaution. The toddler was taken by road ambulance to Texas Hospital before RACQ CareFlight airlifted him to the Mater Children’s Hospital for observation. He did not show signs of envenomation and was in a stable condition.
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the community that the hard decisions we have delayed for too long are being made,” Cr Petty said. “Tenterfield’s Councillors are ratepayers too, and no one likes to have to increase rates, but our road infrastructure and public buildings are aging and in some cases starting to fail. “If this investment isn’t made and our assets aren’t maintained, we cannot sustain our community and economy.” Continued Page 2
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on this huge rise in our rates?” ratepayer Jack Clarke asked. “I for one think that as the vote was tied, then the status quo should remain,” Mr Clarke said. “The vote for (the rates increase) was not successful because there was not a majority.” After the vote the mayor said the shire was “faced with mounting challenges in maintaining and renewing infrastructure”. “It is a credit to the council and
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MAYOR Peter Petty’s casting vote was all that saved CEO Lotta Jackson’s plan to hike Tenterfield Shire rates by more than 80 per cent over the next decade. The vote to apply for a Special Rates Variation was tied five to five and it was up to Mayor Petty to decide the issue. He cast a second vote in favour of the application to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal
(IPART), who will decide the contentious issue. If successful, rates for Tenterfield Shire ratepayers will increase by 15 per cent in the first year and by 10 per cent for the subsequent three years before returning to the allowable rate peg of three per cent. The mayor’s casting vote to allow the motion has caused some to question the process. “What do other people in the shire think of the mayor deciding
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