By DANE LILLINGSTONE
TENTERFIELD Shire Council will benefit from the Federal Government’s $1.105 billion allocation for local road and street works following the reintroduction of Consumer Price Indexed-linked fuel excise.
The council has been allocated $643,230 for 2015/2016 as part of the Federal Government’s Roads to Recovery initiative.
At last month’s council meeting, councillors voted to spend these funds on gravel re-sheeting of Paddy’s Flat Road at a cost of $150,000 and a further $484,230 towards the ongoing widening, reconstruction and sealing of Mt Lindesay Road.
Mayor Peter Petty said, “This is certainly good news, however council is still in desperate need of around $23 million for the remaining works on Mt Lindesay Road.”
“We are continuing to lobby our local members for any available funding for our local roads, however many of these grants require matching funding which council simply does not have,” he said.
The Federal Government is expected to contribute a total of $3.2 billion to the Roads to the Recovery program by 2018-2019.
