Labor councillors lose their way on graffiti
West Ward Liberal Councillor Ross Grove has today criticised Labor councillors for their plans to abandon the graffiti policy they took to the September council election at the upcoming council meeting on Tuesday night.
“Labor have lost their way in the month since the council elections- they went to the polls with a policy to add an extra graffiti crew to council staff but now that they’re in bed with the Holroyd Independents they’re doing something completely different.” Clr Grove said.
“Under Labor’s coalition with the Holroyd Independents it has become more than obvious which party wears the pants- the Holroyd Independents are pushing Labor in a completely different direction to what they promised voters only a month ago.
“The Holroyd Independent Party copped a thrashing at the recent election because people were fed up with the way they were running the council- the Labor Party have a mandate from the community to implement change but that change has to be their change and not more of the same from the previous mob.
“This whole backflip over graffiti undermines Labor’s mayor and his comments from a week ago that he wants a report on council finances before embarking on any new spending projects and if his own caucus isn’t prepared to back his leadership then its a sad indictment upon those councillors who put him there in the first place.”
“Unfortunately the real victims of Labor’s backflip are the local families who live in our area. A rewards system for information on graffiti won’t clean the park benches – but the broken promise of a graffiti cleanup squad will!”
The Liberals also went to the polls with a policy to get offenders to clean their own mess under a restorative justice program and will consider presenting it to council but only when the report requested by the mayor on council finances is brought to council.
