Tala residents: do you know what is happening to your council?

Residents of Tala might ask what they pay their rates for. Perhaps you think it is so that the council provides a service for residents? Maintains roads and pavements? Cleans green areas? Replaces the antique damaged water pipes which burst and create almost daily water cuts in some areas?

Perhaps you even think that it is reasonable for someone in the council office to answer phones and emails from concerned residents, or even issue water bills, as surely issue and subsequent payment of such...