Dandenong Retail Traders Association chairwoman Glenys Cooper has backed a state MP’s idea for business people being given the vote in council elections. Ms Cooper said it was right for them to have a say since they also paid council rates. South-eastern metropolitan Liberal MP Inga Peulich has asked Local Government Minister Jeanette Powell to investigate the idea. “I think it is a very serious and very visionary proposal, which I would like the minister to consider, along with any other means by which the voice of business owners could be heard at the local municipal level,” Ms Peulich said.
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