Councils to get ombudsman visit
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Queensland's deputy ombudsman says the office investigates about 19,000 complaints against councils each year.
Forbes Smith and assistant ombudsman Craig Allen will meet mayors, councillors and chief executive officers in the state's south-west next week.
Their tour will take in Charleville, Quilpie, Thargomindah, Cunnamulla, Roma, St George and Dalby.
Mr Smith says they will be stressing the importance of good administrative practices and decision making in local government.
"A lot of its decisions directly affect members of the community and we do get a lot of complaints and a lot of people are very passionate about their complaints because it does directly affect them," he said.
"It might be about a building control or a rates issue or a valuation of their land, so it can be very personnel I suppose from that point of view, it is different to other types of decisions."
