It would seem that council (COPP) and the SMBA have finally realised they are not in sync with the local business community's needs and wishes and plan to abandon their special rate scheme.
Council's website lists their options as abandoning the special rate, or trying again later. (See agenda at: http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/Report_15_South_Melb_Special_Rate.pdf)
Trying again later will encourage the same reaction from the local businesses who are forced to fund the rate, so let's hope that sanity prevails and they abandon the scheme.
Meanwhile, what fate for the self-appointed SMBA? They are non-representative and non-transparent spenders of millions of dollars of community rates. What a junket!
Let's hope it over, and we can get on with the business of running and promoting our businesses and the local area in ways that are measurable, relevant and controlled by business owners who pay.
Well done and thanks to all who stood up for their rights to have a say about how they spend their own marketing dollars.
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