Really, Shoalhaven Hospital, build your staff a car park so family can visit. This is an ongoing problem but is getting worse. Get your act together.

I would be grateful if you would allow me to place a letter in your paper.  In the hope that one of your reader’s can help with information.

I am trying to find anyone who can remember Ray J T Height. Ray was born in 1924 and died in 2005 in the Nowra area.

If anyone can recall Ray would they please contact me by email caroline.wetton@btopenworld.com; address:  59 Shilton Lane, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2  2AB. England.

Regarding the political signage controversy, I find it rather perplexing. 

Ms Phillips’ posters were in evidence in the Bay and Basin area the day after the election was announced. 

And really does it matter how many go up and where, as long as they are all removed as soon as the election is over? In reality there only needs to be one sign in various places, not a whole string of them. 

I attended two council budget forums in ward 2 in recent weeks and looking into the estimated $13 million deficit, I noticed that our council is relying on generous federal grants as a primary source of being able to bridge the gap between this figure and the $2 million it is touting as the actual budget deficit for 2016 – 2017.

In federal elections we see parties engage in battles over expensive pieces of infrastructure in marginal electorates, but the current federal budget tells us the era of massive pork-barrelling is coming to an end, which is consistent with what voters are looking for in their governments.

For Shoalhaven City Council to expect the rivers of federal grant gold will continue to flow (irrespective of who wins on July 2) is naïve at best and dangerously misguided at worst.

The state government said council was fit for the future, but this is contingent on a number of factors that have yet to be fully explained to the residents of the Shoalhaven.

Ten per cent rate increases each year over the next five years just to meet operating costs, not infrastructure and service upgrades are the reality we face, on top of the current 1.8 per cent increase that is legislated for 2016/17 and 2017/18, not the 2.5 per cent one-off increase that has been promoted in the local media over the course of recent days by the current mayor.

The 2016-2017 budget is one that is lacking in vision for the kind of city particularly in regards to jobs and development.

It’s too reliant on quick cash from fly-by-night developers building homes in isolated, poorly equipped, environmentally questionable places. Council thinks this kind of development is the magic bullet to solve our economic problems, but is not matched by any commitment to creating, growing and maintaining industry to employ all these new residents over the long-term.

To the low lifes who decided it would be easier to cut my boat’s fuel line and steal my fuel tank, I hope you enjoy it as now I can't take my kids out fishing. Let's hope karma comes back and bites you.