EAT Street food vans are required to pay $2000 a year, be there four nights each week and renew licences every six months.
The conditions imposed by the council are so food-van-negative that only three vans have applied for the four available positions. Darren Alexander must be pleased.
At the same time a food van just outside the Town Hall, to service aldermen and council staff, less than 30 metres from the permanent coffee and food outlet in the library, seems to operate unimpeded with its biennial licence. Why is this so?
Eat Street vans meet the needs of families in a healthy open air environment and were highly successful before the council intruded. Does the council generosity towards its staff obviate its service to the wider community?
It is to be hoped ratepayers note the stance of individual aldermen in this sorry debacle, and remember when they vote in the October elections.
Dick James, Launceston. in The Examiner https://www.examiner.com.au/story/5472034/june-18-your-say-on-bowel-cancer-employment-and-eat-street/?cs=100
YES MR JAMES! Ratepayers really should take this kind of thing into account at the elections but it is rumoured that Ald. Alexander will not be in the race.
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