Statement from the Interim Administrator
"Thank you – I’d like to make a short statement about the Our Logan magazine. I had concerns early on about how this publication had been increasingly used by Councillors as a personal advertisement. In this day and age, citizens rightly have little appetite for politicians who appropriate tax-payer or rate-payer funded advertising for their own benefit.
The value of this magazine to the community is not in promoting the achievements of a Councillor who is – frankly – being paid to do the job, but in meaningfully informing residents about their city’s events, Council services, and stories about Logan’s people and local businesses. This is what the feedback told us, so this is what we should do.
I am also supportive of the approach to reduce the number of issues to 6 per year, and also to focus efforts in the coming year and beyond to transition the magazine readership towards electronic media, and to also simplify the opt-out process.
I can see a lot of work has gone into ensuring that this review was founded on very comprehensive data and feedback from all sectors of the community. The robustness of this evidence gives me a lot of confidence about making a decision on the future direction of this valuable communication tool for Council."