Formal Complaint - Breach of Pecuniary Interest Provisions

I lodged a formal complaint yesterday against the self-serving director(s) of the Interim Mid-Coast LHPA Board who participated in the decision to maximise the "base charges" components of the 2009 rates, inflicting huge percentage increases on small landholders, so that the larger landholders, including and especially themselves, could avoid paying significant increases. Full and literal wording of the complaint follows.

Breach Of Pecuniary Interest Provisions - Formal Complaint

That one or more Directors of the Mid Coast LHPA Board, while serving on the Interim Mid Coast LHPA Board during 2009, did use his or her office or position for personal advantage, in contravention of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 - section 57B (1) (c) by taking part in a decision to set the LHPA rates base charges at the maximum allowable amounts.

Setting of the base charges at the maximum allowable levels made it possible to avoid increases of the incremental rates attached to notional carrying capacity. Accordingly, this decision caused a substantial shifting of the burden of costs to the small landholders for the commensurate advantage of the large landholders.

Any substantial landholder on the Interim Mid Coast LHPA board would have derived a personal advantage arising from his or her participation in this decision.