I can recall some time ago completing a TCC questioner on kerbside rubbish/recycling collection, but cannot recollect any of the questions.

I probably would have been one of, what the Councils calls 'only a few objectors”.

This is where it becomes a little confusing. The TCC said there were only a few objectors. Judging by the letters to the editor in the newspaper alone, each week, there are heaps of letters strongly opposing this kerbside collection, and I believe only one in favour.

A complete contrast to their survey results, or were the survey questions that misleading or biased towards their strategies or hidden agenda, therefore [meaning] 'only a few objectors”.

Apparently there were 9000 respondents to the 2018 survey. This is about 6 per cent of our city's population at that time.

To base this major change and cost on such a small percentage of respondents is not in the best interest of its ratepayers.

The question needs to be asked: Is this a fair representation, doesn't the other 94 per cent count?

At a cost of $230 for the first year, with the TCC history of mismanaging our finances, goodness knows what the cost will spiral out to in the coming years.

B Porter, Welcome Bay