Forum –
Ratepayers deserve the maximum return on the sales of Central Coast Council’s assets.
The old Gosford Council building should be auctioned to the highest bidder so that its debts can be paid off asap.
If the State Government wants to bid in a public auction, then it should.
Any pre-auction negotiated price with the state should be public, not confidential, so that we can see if we are getting the best value.
Transparency is essential for accountability.
What is the most recent valuation of the site in this hot property market?
The State Liberal government has been gutting NSW TAFEs of funds for years.
Any injection of cash to reverse that attack on TAFEs should be directly from that government, not subsidised by Central Coast ratepayers through discounted sale prices of our assets.
Please follow up your story and ask the hard questions.
Email, Dec 3
Tony Fuary, Umina Beach
Who is overseeing the Central Coast Council assets? It certainly not the CEO and administrator! If they sell this ratepayers asset for a firesale price to the State government there must be a whiff of something fishy! If the State government want it they should pay market price! Unless that was part of its agenda?
The illusion of building a TAFE collage is a myth! Believe it when its built and open for business! The liberals have spent decades defunding TAFE with the same dedication as defunding other essential services they do not believe support them! Such as ABC NDIS etc etc but big business has been bankrolled to the tune of billions of dollars to add to their massive profit margins whilst pursuing illegal Robodebts defunding social services and people on low payed support payments. Its unAustralian and unfair and we are better than that.