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THE BYRON SHIRE Byron Bay Volume 31 #17 Film Festival Program in Wednesday, October 5, 2016 this issue www.echo.net.au Phone 02 6684 1777 [email protected] [email protected] 23,200 copies every week CAB A PLEBISCITE – MEANINGLESS AND IMPOTENT LIKE A TURNBULL AUDIT Falun Gong and It’s tick season! Matthew Newton’s Ms Nolan: aff ordable Online in netdaily Byron Lighthouse Run stalwart the Chinese Get informed new fi lm From housing and other remembered for 10th birthday Nowhere echo.net.au/byron-lighthouse-run- organ trade – p5 – p7 – p18 myths – p33 stalwart-remembered-10th-birthday Rate rise fl agged Jesse averts disaster Up for discussion and voting by the Shire thought road maintenance new crop of councillors at their fi rst was within the top three priority offi cial meeting this Th ursday will issues for the Shire.’ be a proposal by staff to increase Councillors have been presented rates with a special variation of 12.5 with three options: Th e fi rst is to do per cent over four years. nothing and apply the estimated 2.5 Th is includes the estimated 2.5 per cent rate peg (classed as ‘dete- per cent rate peg. riorate’). Th e need for more cash for Coun- The second is to implement a cil, says director of corporate and special rate variation of 7.5 per cent, community services Mark Arnold, each year, for four years (classed as is owing to a commitment to the ‘maintain’) and the third option is state government’s Fit for the Future to apply a special rate variation of program and the need to maintain 12.5 per cent each year for four years and improve infrastructure. (classed as ‘improve’). Neighbouring Tweed, Kyogle Th e potential result of a proposed and Clarence Valley councils were rate increase of 12.5 per cent ‘will see considered ‘unfi t’ for the future by a potential approximate $22,254,000 the state government in October raised over a four-year period.’ last year; however, Byron Shire was found to be fi t. Amalgamation fears After his usual school holiday climb of a fi g tree above stallholders and market-goers last Friday morning, Mr Arnold says in his report in Mr Arnold also warned that if Jesse Hutton spotted a massive crack and told his dad Jon. Thankfully the area was evacuated just in time as this week’s agenda that a ‘key com- Council was considered ‘not’ Fit for the tree collapsed soon after. Resident Ruth Laxton told The Echo, ‘The Hutton family of Crabbes Creek Wood ponent of the Fit for the Future the Future, it could be ‘considered Fired Bakery need to be recognised for saving the day.’ She says if the area wasn’t evacuated, ‘I’m sure people program was the requirement for as a possible amalgamation target.’ could have died or been injured when the massive tree cracked and fell.’ Jesse has been recommended by each council to prepare and submit ‘If a decision is made to not in- local police for a bravery award. Market manager Allie Godfrey is pictured centre. Photo Jeff ‘Cracked’ Dawson a Council Improvement Plan (CIP).’ troduce a special rate variation… Byron Shire Council’s adopted Council will have some diffi cult de- plan contains six key improvement cisions to make concerning a reduc- Best shark mitigation strategy ignored? strategies, he wrote. tion in services, maintenance and Th ey are: ‘Pursuing new, recur- facilities.’ Hans Lovejoy 17-year-old Cooper Allen at Ballina’s garding how to minimise the risk of rent revenues such as pay parking, Community consultation and Lighthouse Beach, one of those new shark bites at surf beaches in NSW asset realisation (sale and develop- awareness regarding the special rate Th e peak body that trains beach in- strategies – an Aquarius Barrier at over the last 20 years.’ ment of land), increasing rates be- variation is planned, with a hand- spector lifeguards has told The Echo Lennox Head’s Seven Mile Beach – ‘Th is advice is that at locations yond the rate peg in future years, out booklet for ratepayers via the that the state government is ignor- failed to withstand ocean conditions where there is a spatial overlap of effi ciency savings through strategic October rates notice which Council ing best practice shark-mitigation and will be removed. people recreating in the surf, and procurement initiatives, continua- distributes. Consultation will also strategies that are in line with an The Australian Professional known aggregation of sharks and tion of savings generated through include a random telephone survey independent report and recommen- Ocean Lifeguard Association (APO- at historically patrolled locations, operating efficiencies and signifi- ‘of a representative sample of 400 dations by a NSW Legislative As- LA) say their $50,000 grant applica- a system of having a qualifi ed life- cant increase in expenditure on in- local residents.’ sembly committee. tion to establish Surveyor lifeguard guard in an elevated position trained frastructure such as roads.’ Submissions and online surveys Last October, the NSW Depart- towers was recently rejected. The to identify shark activity and shark- One of the underpinnings for will be sought, while information ment of Primary Industries (DPI) an- proposal would have seen APOLA bite victims should be fundamental the rate rise, Mr Arnold says, is stands will be available at markets nounced $16 million for shark mitiga- also contribute $50,000 to their trial. for any beach-patrolling system. that ‘community satisfaction sur- and through print and electronic tion over fi ve years, which was touted APOLA’s Ken Holloway says his ‘The lifeguard in the tower is veys conducted in 2013 and 2016 media and presentations to the busi- at the time as being a world fi rst. organisation ‘has given consistent supported by at least one other showed that residents of the Byron ness and community roundtable.’ And with last week’s mauling of advice to the NSW government re- continued on page 3 “Our Solar Power and battery systems can provide a substantial return on investment which tops property, Take Back Your Power! shares and super. 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