Mr Fletcher said these included the government’s infrastructure priorities and the council’s ability to deliver on its own priorities.
“I trust council will consider this issue before taking any decision to cancel these two commuter car parks,” Mr Fletcher wrote in the letter. “Such a decision could well have the long-term consequence of reducing the chance of future applications for Commonwealth funding for the City of Glen Eira being successful.”
The commuter car parks have been criticised by the Auditor-General which found thefederal government’s $660 million scheme wastargeted at marginal seats rather than those in need.
Former Victorian Supreme Court Judge,David Harper QC,has describedthe funding of the commuter carparks as “corruption”.
The Bentleigh and Elsternwick car parks are both in the federal seat of Goldstein which is a key contest ground for the government withformer journalist Zoe Daniel announcing last week she will run against the incumbent Liberal MP Tim Wilson.