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Adelaide City Council will vote to start meetings in the early afternoon to prevent staff and elected members from sitting past midnight after long-term councillor Anne Moran threatened legal action over the lengthy duration of meetings.
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Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor wants to slash rates for city hotels and function centres and halve the rent for Central Market traders and council tenants to help the city rebound from COVID-19 – but some Adelaide City councillors have questioned whether the move is equitable.
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State Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has called on the Adelaide City Council to rescind its “abhorrent and deplorable” decision to commission a legal review of the Hutt Street Centre, pledging to explore “all parliamentary options for intervention” if it fails to listen.
Cutting homelessness spending, delaying the completion of separated bikeways and shelving street upgrades are part of an Adelaide City Council plan to claw back over $24 million in the wake of a financial hit from COVID-19.
Adelaide City Council could lose up to $30 million in income over the next three months as a result of COVID-19, prompting its executive to consider raising the council’s debt ceiling and pausing projects and services to deal with the “massive” financial blow.
The Adelaide City Council is set to abandon its goal to become a world leader on carbon neutrality amid competition with interstate and overseas cities and rising transport emissions.
