But for the Victorian Government to compulsorily acquire our licenses, with money the public has to pay, at about 15 per cent of the market value is simply wrong.

We had a 92 per cent customer satisfaction rating yet were lumped in with our city counterparts. These new reforms mean there will be no such thing as a taxi in Victoria in 18 months’ time. Who or what will replace us remains to be seen.

We just want to keep what belongs to us, what we paid for, what is ours. And keep the future of Wodonga Taxis and our customers secure. 

How can a $50 million decision come down to the vote of our eight councillors? It just doesn't seem right.

The ratepayers of Albury should have been given a chance to vote on the pool debate.

Albury isn't in a financial position to spend $50 million on a new aquatic centre. With a projected debt of $63 million by 2020, to add a further $50 million would be ludicrous.

With government funding hard to come by, I also don't want a generational debt from this project. Have the Albury councillors considered spending $20 million upgrading the two pools we already have and build the indoor pool at one of these venues.

Both current pools are in prime positions to service all areas of Albury, keeping the ratepayers happy.

With the council elections looming, I urge the residents of North Albury, Lavington, Norris Park, Glenroy, Springdale Heights and Thurgoona to consider carefully who they vote for.

The councillors of Albury need to listen to the ratepayers.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the Wodonga Animal Rescue and Albury Cat Rescue Wine and Nibble Night held last Friday such a huge success.

More than $1100 was raised to help the local rescue groups continue to help all the dogs, cats, puppies and kittens from all over the Border region.

Thank you to everyone who came along and bought raffle tickets and made donations. Thank you to the wineries who attended (Cofield, Dal Zotto, Gapsted Wines and Cheeky Peak Brewery) and the prize donations from many local businesses.

We also thank the media for their coverage and promotion of the event.

And last but not least, well done to the AWAR and ACR teams who put this night together. Look forward to the next one.

The Henty Community is collecting stories of our WWI soldiers who volunteered for active service from 1914- 1918.

If you have family members who enlisted for active service overseas, we would love to hear from you. We thank you in anticipation. Contact Maureen Dixon (02) 6929 3934 or Yvonne Booth (02) 6929 3236

Finally we have someone in Murray King with the nous to realise the value of the Murray River to the Border economy (“Murray floats his river plan”, The Border Mail, August 31). I can only hope my letter earlier this month had something to do with it.

Well done Mr King, you will get my vote. You now only have to get past the current councillors that think a rarely visited multi-million dollar arts museum and an orchid statue in Albury’s industrial area are of more value.