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TIME TO REASSESS TCC SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDING ALLOCATIONS With reported funding allocations as follows: • North Queensland Cowboys: $250,000. • Townsville Fire: $180,000 + $1 peppercorn lease. • V8 Super Cars: $1.8M + free promotion. • Townsville Enterprise: $330,000 + $1.8M in events. • Smart Precinct NQ: $60,000 + $1 peppercorn lease. • NQ Spark: $300,000 debt loan + $160,000 write off. Should the Townsville City Council reassess its funding priorities to shift support from professionally sponsored organisations, advocacy groups, and grant-funded companies towards local community charities and non-profit organisations? It took the state government to demonstrate to TCC the error in judgement council had made around funding cuts to community events like India Fest. By Premier Crisafulli appointing best event in Queensland to India Fest it demonstrates councils incapacity to make decisions in the publics interests. Time to put community first. Having spent time in office, the ‘free tickets and events’ councillors, council executives, and ‘self-appointed’ city leaders attend at ratepayer expense (THE PERKS) far outweighs the costs being cut by council for our local community organisations. It is also time to review ‘preferred contractors’ when a local community event is organised, often TCC appoints its own contractors, at inflated costs to event organisers; it is time to clean house and remove unnecessary funding allocations. DISMISS TOWNSVILLE CITY COUNCIL PETITION Queensland Government e-petition link: www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/Petition-Details?id=4245 PLEASE SIGN & SHARE