WODONGA mayor Anna Speedie has suggested she would give away the city’s water tower for $100 million.
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The council chief, in a light-hearted chat with the Border’s Triple M radio breakfast team, was asked what she would seek from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on his visit to the area.
“We would love to see some significant funding, Wodonga and our region,” Cr Speedie said.
“I think we would take a cool $100 million and I’d probably give him the water tower for that.”
It is not the first time Cr Speedie has spoken about offloading the landmark with radio hosts Matt Griffith and Luisa Pelizzari.
Last year the mayor said she would be willing to sell the 1923 concrete structure, which stopped supplying water in 1971, for $10 million.
Alas we don’t know what Mr Turnbull thought of the offer, as he spoke of gas prices and the weather rather than Wodonga in a later interview with Griffith and Pelizzari.
