Eurobodalla Sire Council Response to Grants

Finally received a response from Eurobodalla Shire Council Infrastructure Support Coordinator as follows in part:

“….we do apologise for the delay in responding.”

“We can confirm that Council has submitted applications under this grant program and are also preparing to submit applications under the next Boating Now grant program.”

“Council applied for projects that had been discussed with Marine Parks and had been discussed with us by the Community or Community Associations.”

“Council are currently in the process of preparing a Marine Strategy to identify priority marine projects, which will assist in the readiness for grant applications.”

Then a paragraph asking for information about the BB Boaters Association.  This person has clearly had her head in the sand since 2015 when the Association was formed and had not searched either their internal databases of Association or any communication with the senior executives.

It goes to show the isolation and lack of communication with Community groups and valid local knowledge stakeholders with the input of grants.

The Association has escalated the misapplication of Boating Now funds by Councils to an interesting level.  Watch this space.

The person undertaking the Marine Strategy has, even after repeated request, not made contact with any fishing or boating stakeholder that we know of.