The $20 million offered to the merging council is no 'gift'.

Updated November 25 2015 - 10:50am, first published November 24 2015 - 10:25am

Not a ‘gift’ at all

IT will cost Lake Macquarie ratepayers an additional $280 million over 10 years if LMCC is merged with Newcastle, so obviously the $20 million offered by the State Government for amalgamation hardly puts a dint in that financial burden.

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