Ropp did extremely well in Octobers Council elections having 2 out of our 3 candidates winning seats at Council. Unfortunately Sami just missed out having been pipped at the post by Heather Consolo another independent candidate for Gateway Ward. This was very unfortunate for the future power battles making it more difficult to gain the advantage with a 5 vote to 4 needed to get motions across the line.
Your independent Councillors Christina Sirakoff and Rhonda Clark have been extremely busy since the elections coming up to speed with council operations and getting to grips with other councillors. Their biggest challenge will be to work with like minded councillors to bring our high spending Council under control. For over 20 years this high spending Council has been left unchecked governing for political parties and narrow ideological interests and having lost site of its purpose being to govern for the whole community. (Council Officers are required to execute Councillor voted motion but in the past Council was dominated by Labor/ Greens/ progressive independents) But RoPP’s independent Councillors have shifted the balance of power and our councillors will not be bullied and hoodwinked by a council that has previously run anti-community and high spending agenda. RoPP have a small but growing support team of experts that are there to assist our Councillors to make sense and analyse the mountain of paperwork placed in our councillors paths to make their lives more difficult than it should otherwise be.
The power play will be most interesting as our team start to hit their straps and gain confidence in doing battle with the intrenched self interest factions within council that pander to a conga line of vested interest and overly represented minorities. RoPP members can be assured that our team are focused on holding Council accountable to sensible spending and the first core item on the 2021 agenda is RATES.
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