December 8th, 2021Your say

Council’s decision on The Rex is indicative of the following:

They do not care about council staff, the crappy conditions they work in and the fact that they have been waiting for new premises since 2014;
They do not care about library staff, also working in substandard conditions, in a library which is too small for the community;
They do not care about the much-valued community cinema, which has nowhere to go;
They don’t care that they are locking in a $6 million dollar cash loss;
They don’t care that they will have to hand back the $500K library grant; and
They don’t care that in the next five years they will be starting from scratch, spending more funds on consultants, community consultation, site selection, the planning process, tendering, to build the ‘new Hub’.
The council seems to be under the delusion that abandoning the project now, locking in the $6 million cash loss, buying more land and then completing a building in five years’ time is going to be cheaper than finishing it now.
Disappointingly, we are continually let down by our council. In 12 months the community could have been reaping the benefits of The Rex, now just a ‘wreck’.

• Vanessa Craven, Daylesford