Despite attending three public inquiries into the Dubbo and Wellington proposed council amalgamations, mayor Mathew Dickerson said he still felt the whole process was "disappointing".
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There were 446 people who attended the inquiries: 165 at Wellington and 281 across the two Dubbo meetings.
The aim of the meetings was to allow members of the public to express their views on the merger to delegate Dr Ian Tiley.
However, Cr Dickerson said the processes at the inquiry were flawed.
"Restricting everyone to five minutes and then [Dr Tiley] complaining that they didn't acknowledge all 11 criteria... it just wasn't enough time," he said.
Even being allowed additional time instead of the five minutes given to everyone else was not enough, Cr Dickerson said.
"There's so much to say on the issue it was hard to fit it into 15 minutes."
The mayor was initially told he was only able to speak at one meeting, and despite being allowed to speak at both of the Dubbo inquiries on the day, Cr Dickerson was still dissatisfied.
He said residents at the Wellington inquiry said he was rude for not speaking up, not realising he had been banned from doing so.
"I've learnt lots of things to make sure we do not do when it comes to our (council's) public consultation," Cr Dickerson said.
However, Cr Dickerson said while he would always want more people to have their say, 281 people was a good turnout.
"Nothing was ideal and to still have 281 people turn up... the people of Dubbo came out to support Dubbo," he said.
"I also had a lot of people come up to me during the day and in the days before and say 'I can't get to the meeting but let people know I don't support the amalgamation'."
Cr Dickerson said he still did not know a single Dubbo person who wanted to amalgamate.
"There were 56 speakers across the three meetings, of which six were in favour. In Dubbo there were 28 speakers and two were in favour. That's 90 per cent of people who were against the amalgamation," he said.
"Jacob Perry said he was against it but Jacob's reason is that he's so close to the boundary he feels like he's part of Dubbo anyway.
"He also commented on rates but rates are still going to be the same if there's an amalgamation."
Written submissions on the merger proposal can be made until February 28, at www.councilboundaryreview.nsw.gov.au.
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