<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5aca3d03-13e6-4bb9-a4c9-1d5d98bab299/635DC8C0-1EA2-4C2B-983A-53B112A2B806/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm"><table background="" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><TD id="pgraphA" width="100%"><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size="2">Written by <B>PHILIP NOLAN</B>.</FONT> <P>WANGARATTA ratepayers will have to find an extra $500,000 if the Federal Government sticks to its decision not to provide funding for the city’s planned new performing arts centre.</P><P>This was confirmed this week by city mayor, Don Joyce, in a radio interview on the controversial issue.</P><P>The likelihood of ratepayers footing the bill was raised by State Minister for Regional Development, John Brumby.</P><P>Mr Brumby claimed that if the Federal Government did not overturn its decision to reject the city council funding application, it would fall back to local government to make up the difference.</P><P>"<B>This will result in increased pressure of spending and increased pressure on rates,</B>" he said.</P><P>Cr Joyce, asked to respond, said: "<B>Yes, he is right.</B>"</P><P>He said that the $7.6m facility was the largest project ever undertaken by the city, and council placed "<B>great importance</B>" on it.</P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/635DC8C0-1EA2-4C2B-983A-53B112A2B806/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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