By JOLENE OGLE
MEMBER for Noosa Glen Elmes has released his five-point plan for Noosa’s future, with plenty of cash promised if he is re-elected.
Along with the clean-up of Noosa River announced on Tuesday, Mr Elmes pledged $2.5 million for the completion of the Eumundi Road upgrade to Dustin Road, with work proposed to start after the school holidays.
Mr Elmes also made a “Noosa Hospital service guarantee”, stating that if Queensland Health regained ownership of Noosa hospital in 2020, Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg had guaranteed public health facilities at the hospital from 2020 to 2030.
The Noosa Tigers AFL grounds have also been promised $250,000 in funding, should Mr Elmes be re-elected, with the funds to be used for works to be decided by the club.
And music to most ears was Mr Elmes’ promise to reduce household costs and drive down the cost of living over a five-year period, with savings of up to $577 on power bills and an $80 rebate on water bills among the benefits listed.
Since being elected to parliament in 2006, Mr Elmes said he was most proud of securing de-amalgamation for Noosa.
“The new Noosa Council, which we regained on 1 January 2014, would not have been possible without my effort to establish de-amalgamation as LNP policy and retain it as policy under four different LNP leaders,” he said.
“This is the achievement I am most proud of, but it is one amongst a list which has made Noosa a better place in which our children can be educated, where community groups have been partnered to solve environmental issues, where our community assets have been improved and the estate added to.”
