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With pre-polling for the Rockhampton Regional Council Division 3 by-election underway, candidate Grant Mathers has spoken with residents about the issues they would like council to address.
Mr Mathers said he had spoken with hundreds of residents while doing letterbox drops and at the pre-poll booth, as people went to vote.
“I have ranked the community’s concerns into a top 10. The list is not ranked in order of importance, but each of these issues has been raised several times, and each is important to those who raised it,” Mr Mathers said.
The top 10 Rockhampton Regional Council issues raised by Division 3 residents to Mr Mathers were:
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Rockhampton Regional Council was recently subject to a credit review and received a good outcome, with a moderate rating and a neutral outlook.
The credit review was undertaken by the Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) and was based on information up to November 30, 2020.
The credit review evaluated council’s current financial policy, ongoing financial viability, borrowing capacity for individual projects and overall businesses, debt funding requirements and financial targets and strategies to achieve those targets.
Council’s borrowings are forecast at $55m for the current year.
The credit review stated council had “stable financial performance, adequate debt serviceability and expected improvement in leverage metrics over the 10 year forecast period”.
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Houston Police officers Kenneth Bigger, center, and Aaron Day, center-right, hand out blankets to people as a winter storm continues to hit the area Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, under the elevated portion of I-45 in downtown Houston.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Regarding “Officials want Texans to conserve energy. So why was downtown Houston’s bright skyline lit up?” (Feb. 16): My kids and I always had a tight network of church and neighbor friends that got us through with no family to speak of close by, but great friends checking on us and we on them. It does take a village, but many don’t have “networks.” We were very fortunate.