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  1. DCCP is PLEASED to announce the EDL debt will be 20k less than last year. What are they doing with the subsidy and the money that is paid on time by consumers? Drive in masterplans that’s what! The administrators’ definitely need some financial guidance. Trips to Canberra for awards they did not win and could have been accepted via skype or zoom. Our rates are through the roof and now they want to pat themselves on the back.

    Very annoyed ratepayer

  2. What should be raised at this meeting with the CEO present is how much has been spent on legal fees chasing a whistleblower. Why have the administrators denied in a meeting in the Italian club to the minister for local government that there was anything before the courts about that matter? There are three matters before the Courts. Two with the District Council of Coober Pedy for Defamation, Victimization and Negligence. The council is being sued for $1.8 million. And another case with the previous administrator Tim Jackson.

    A.J.Walsh

  4. There are many questions in the supermarket about what the council does with our money, once we pay our electricity invoices. It is generally assumed that our timely payments go into general revenue giving a false impression of cash at hand.
    Judging by the excessive rate increases, residents believe they are now being forced to pay the same electricity invoices several times over!

  5. Under the local government act it is illegal to amalgamate all monies in council to create one fund. Electricity, water and municipal must be kept as separate entities. This is part of the reason council was put into administration and was identified in the Auditor Generals report. Former CEO Fiona Hogan and Lindsay Morley controlling Council finance were found to be paying their wages from the RAES subsidy. Sheridan identified in a public consultation meeting in JUNE/JULY 2023 that Jackson and Miller had been doing the same thing. He actually stated that the RAES was being used as an over draught. Sheridan in that meeting refused to take what he had found to the OPI. This can be confirmed by former Councilor Des Roffey who questioned Sheridan and exposed that fact.

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