Recent letter (March 07) published in the Examiner

Having attended the recent (Tue 6th March) workshop held at COG, my eyes have again be opened to the ways of our Local Government.
It seems that according to the Dept of Local Govt, each Council must review its wards once every so many years, to ensure that correct voter representation can be seen to be observed.
The workshop on Tuesday night was an opportunity for the public to be informed of the various options and to allow discussions on this subject.
The point that I find most interesting was that the option of leaving the current ward system was not presented as an option and that the review was not actually due this year.
At the moment there is an imbalance in the Canning Vale ward, that it is under represented according to the ratio of councilors for that ward compared to the number of voters.
But one fact that I was unaware of is that the ward system that exists only really facilitates the election of councilors for each ward, once elected the councilors actually represent each and every household within the COG, therefore it must be said that how can we be under represented when each councilor represents us.
Personally I believe in self representation, phone the council yourself, attend meetings yourself, raise issue yourself, get out there and be part of the system, the issues may not seem to not affect you but eventually they will impact upon yourself and your family.