Anger at Resources for Regions Axing
BY DI SNEDDON Singleton Council is expected to unanimously support a mayoral minute at its October council meeting demanding Resources for Regions be reinstated. The program, that has delivered $25.29million to Singleton over the past three years, was scrapped in the State budget delivered last month. Instead there is a new $350million Regional Development Trust […]
Community big winner in Resource funding change
SPECIAL REPORT BY DI SNEDDON Changes to the Resources for Regions funding is big news for Muswellbrook and Singleton and particularly so for community and sporting organisations. For the first time coal mining communities will receive guaranteed funding for the next three years and, for the first time, it is not just for councils to […]
