J Mackintosh

Rate reduction versus debt reduction. It’s interesting to see where the different councillors sit on this one.

It probably depends on how acutely they feel for the ratepayers suffering from their current rate burden.

A rate reduction provides immediate relief and reducing the debt should provide rate reduction longer term.

But would it? Or would the council soon be back to borrowing to its limit, whatever that is.

Maybe a better way for the council to reduce its debt would be to dispose of someof the fat that it has accumulated over the past few years.