DISTRICT Councillor Hazel Wright's disappointment that a public consultation meeting to discuss the setting of Stratford Council's council tax for next year was attended by just eight members of the public should have come as no surprise to her (Advertiser, December 15).
While Mrs Wright's statement that "it's important people do let officers and councillors know their views" is very true, the poor attendance of which she writes is the result not of apathy but of disillusionment, if not despair.
There is a feeling abroad that the views of the man in the street are no longer listened to.
Our district councillors and their paid council officers are believed to be dismissive of our views.
They squabble too much in public, to no good effect, they appear to waste much of our money and the inevitability of continued escalation in the council tax rate leads to a total loss of confidence in their ability to control their and our affairs.
These are the reasons why the ''tax meeting'' was so poorly attended.
Arthur S Daniels
High Street
Studley
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