Is it the job of our Shire CEO to tell us whether we need Wards? .

Is it the job of our Shire CEO to tell us whether we need Wards? .

What do our representatives think on the matter..... or doesn't it matter  ?
  Is the  system better or worse since Mr Kennett decided that bigger is better; that less reps are more, and they need to be paid more in order to to be credible? 

Surely briefing 1 local rep  is better than trying to brief 7 who get votes from all over the place . Does changing the people who sit on the now seven seats ( cf 11 before) stop the system from being easily stacked and silent on controversial matters? 
How many recent planning decisions,  like the one that cost the southern ward years of wasted work on the Barham River floodplain, and the North eastern ward a non starting new quarry , would have been nipped in the bud by better informed and more representaive counsellors? How much have all these non starting developments cost the council and the reputation of planning departments , let alone some of our now much poorer ratepayers ?  

If  the Liberals want to win back Corangamite they need to do more than impose big signs and big government on us.  Do the Liberal party think we are stupid and need more business people in government .?  Living off the land, we are not stupid. We can tell that  others are making decisions for us for which we have no part , which are often not well informed and go nowhere , and which cost us a lot more than they need to.  
We notice d you recently supported a house to be built down on the coast - all your pictures in the paper