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Premium Content Subscriber only A Townsville dad who was high on ice when he attempted to hijack a car outside a Townsville home has been released from custody. The father of eight faced Townsville District Court where he pleaded guilty to a string of offences in December 2019. Crown prosecutor Siobhan Harrison told the court Patrick Charles Smith, 28, scaled a fence in an attempt to flee officers when they caught up with him. Ms Harrison said Smith had been the passenger of a stolen car th...

s is how to find people who have an interest, or even a latent interest, and make them aware of these meetings, and really get the turnout. we did have some budget community meetings as part of this cycle. they were not overwhelmingly popular, but they were attended. we had a decent turnout in those meetings. i was happy to see some new faces, not that i mind seeing not new faces, but it was good to see people i have not personally encountered before. they were asking good questions an...

fund renewal. i do not want us to sit idle on this and as my colleagues have clearly articulated, we have to be strong and continued to advocate for funding from the states so our city does not have to continue to augment what they cannot provide. and we have to make sure that we continue to keep our nose to the grindstone and do the hard work that we do. and continue to thank our voters who support us in the ways they do because were going to -- we have got to -- two large funds that ...

away from us. i will remind everybody they took over $20 million. it was $2 billion this year, $2.20 billion. that is about $20 million for us. they took away that last summer. we are not even getting any of this faq. when people say we are going to pass this and it is going to help us, it will help us better than none, but we have been basically in deficit, all the school districts. they are not making up the money they have already taken away from us. i wish i would share the optimis...

increasing ada pattern, the school receives funding based on higher ada. not the prior year if it was in a lower level. it works the other way for a district that is moving in a decreasing ada pattern. if a district loses ada from one year to the next, it is based on the prior years hire a -- higher ada. we have had steady, modest, but helpful increases in our ada in that regard. we do get funded next year if we see increases in our eda. we will get funded on that level. for purposes o...

prop h renewal and a childrens fund renewal. i do not want us to sit idle on this and as my colleagues have clearly articulated, we have to be strong and continued to advocate for funding from the states so our city does not have to continue to augment what they cannot provide. and we have to make sure that we continue to keep our nose to the grindstone and do the hard work that we do. and continue to thank our voters who support us in the ways they do because were going to -- we have ...

residents. just a very big public thank you and shut out for that. if it was not for you, we would not be able to continue to do the hard work we do with our students who are our highest priority. this was also a reminder to us that we have got some things coming up. were doing it to your budget in two years and were looking at a prop h renewal and a childrens fund renewal. i do not want us to sit idle on this and as my colleagues have clearly articulated, we have to be strong and cont...

out there for consideration. >> i would agree, but on top of that, when you say if things happen to work out better -- if either of those initiatives passes, particularly the governors initiative, we still have to make cuts. that is not going to be enough to be the magic thing that would fall from the sky to allow us to have additional resources to put back programs. realistically, the putting back programs, in the best case scenario, is probably a couple of years away. that is why we ...