From the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
The Mayor of the Rockhampton Regional Council is continuing to fight for Rockhampton’s share of a new $315 million government funding package for local councils, to go towards the flood-damaged Rockhampton Airport.
Cr Brad Carter has been in negotiations with the Local Government Association of Queensland to finalise a submission for $600,000 in airport damage funding.
The new $315 million funding package, announced on Saturday 26 February, is for Queensland’s local councils to repair utilities and infrastructure damaged by Cyclone Yasi and January’s floods.
The federal and Queensland governments are both contributing to the Queensland Local Council Package.
Cr Carter said he had been told the Rockhampton Airport had not been ruled out in the new flood funding, but was still in the process of finalising the submission.
Cr Carter spent Saturday night emailing the Queensland Reconstruction Authority to seek assurances Rockhampton Airport wasn’t forgotten in the funding package.
“There should be absolutely no reason why the Rockhampton Airport shouldn’t receive funding for the damage in excess of $600,000 of pure damage costs” he said.
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