The Berejiklian government has put no clear plan forward.Credit:Peter Rae
The Minister for Local Government,Vaucluse MP Gabrielle Upton has,through media statements,repeatedly affirmed the government is"committed to the remaining mergers",which have been delayed due to legal action.
But the minister has refused to explain how this will occur,leaving councils shrouded in uncertainty as they prepare for elections in September.
Local Government Minister Gabrielle Upton says the government remains committed to the remaining mergers,which have been delayed due to legal action.
For Ku-Ring-Gai and Hornsby councils,the government's silence has created a vacuum of confusion more than two months after the NSW Court of Appeal rejected the forced amalgamation between the two councils as flawed.
Ku-Ring-Gai mayor Jennifer Anderson said she had requested multiple meetings with Ms Upton seeking clarity over the government's intentions but had received no response.
"We haven't heard anything,"Cr Anderson said."There's been no word at all."
In March,the Court held that Ku-ring-gai Council had been denied procedural fairness by the government because it kept secret a KPMG report on which it based its amalgamations policy.