Byron GM Maintains Hard Line on Rate Rise

Byron Shire Council General Manager - Ken Gainger
“Rate increases are never popular, but in this case they are necessary”: Byron Shire Council General Manager Ken Gainger.

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CALLS FROM local Country Labor Party branch members to crack down on holiday letting, increase commercial rates and raise paid parking in certain areas to address the Shire’s ailing road infrastructure have been rejected by Council’s general manager Ken Gainger as an inadequate revenue source.

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Lightening Belts Byron Bay Lighthouse Overnight

One of the severely damaged sections of the Byron Bay Lighthouse circuitry, struck by lightening. Photo: Geoff Bensley.
One of the severely damaged sections of the Byron Bay Lighthouse circuitry, struck by lightening. Photo: Geoff Bensley.

BYRON BAY Lighthouse was struck by lightening last night Dec 5, causing serious damage which, without an electrician of Geoff Bensley’s talents, would have made tonight a very dark night indeed at Australia’s most easterly point.

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Labor Says Suffolk Park Land Should Have Been Free

Byron Shire Council. Photo: Eve Jeffery.
Byron Shire Council. Photo: Eve Jeffery.

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ACTING SECRETARY of Byron Bay Labor, Asren Pugh, has criticised Byron Shire Mayor Simon Richardson’s deal for Council to purchase the Suffolk Park sports field for $900,000, telling Echonetdaily that if they had been properly conducted, Labor’s policy to see the land gifted to the community could have been achieved.

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