ARARAT Rural City Council has identified seven priority projects it would like funded as part of election commitments from the major parties.<\/p>\n
With a federal and state election due this year, Council\u2019s CEO Tim Harrison said he and his team will be working hard to achieve commitments from both sides.<\/p>\n
He said 2022 was an ideal opportunity to get funding commitments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t get a double election year very often and it is the perfect time for us to get commitments to benefit our communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got politicians who want to get elected and we\u2019ve got to take full advantage of, dare I say, pork barrelling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Harrison said council officers have been working on a \u201cwish list\u201d or priority projects requiring funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we have tried to do is keep the wish list practical and short so that it is understandable to politicians and achievable. There\u2019s nothing worse than going forward with 40 projects and maybe getting two funded because they (the politicians) couldn\u2019t understand what you\u2019re trying to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been pretty clear, we have about half a dozen projects on the books, pretty high value projects but ones we think we can achieve,\u201d Dr Harrison said.<\/p>\n
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The projects council hopes to receive funding commitments for include:<\/p>\n
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Dr Harrison said he was confident all of the projects will stack up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are all practical, necessary projects that will deliver better outcomes for different communities. I\u2019m confident we can achieve funding for most if not all of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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ARARAT Rural City Council has identified seven priority projects it would like funded as part of election commitments from the major parties.
\nWith a federal and state election due this year, Council\u2019s CEO Tim Harrison said he and his team will be working hard to achieve commitments from both sides.
\nHe said 2022 was an ideal opportunity to get funding commitments.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t get a double election year very often and it is the perfect time for us to get commitments to benefit our communities,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got politicians who want to get elected and we\u2019ve got to take full advantage of, dare I say, pork barrelling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Jo-Armstrong-and-Pete-Armstrong-2-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-d3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}