Rates affordability Debate

Environmental Benefits - Ecosystems & Biodiversity

Option 1

The resident supporting Option 1 emphasizes the critical need to maintain current levels of funding for weed control, biodiversity efforts, and climate change initiatives, highlighting the urgency and irreversibility of environmental and ecological challenges. They argue that while some infrastructure and road marking projects can be deferred without immediate severe consequences, pausing or reducing efforts on environmental fronts would lead to detrimental and potentially irreversible impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity. The comment underscores the belief that proactive environmental conservation is essential and should not be compromised, as the long-term costs and ecological damage of inaction would burden future generations.

Table of comments:

Point No

Comment

898.1

I think some of the options for cutting the budgets are sensible, e.g. road marking, etc.  However I strongly support retaining the current provisions for weed control, all biodiversity work, and action on climate change. Infrastructure can be fixed later, and markings on roads can as well.  But weeds grow, biodiversity continues to decline, and we face both a biodiversity and climate crisis.  We can't pause action on those as we pass the costs of them onto future generations otherwise, and face losing critical ecosystems, habitats, and potentially irreversible outcomes result.