I see that our Council is planning on cutting back on meetings in order to save ratepayers’ money (“Three meetings in two weeks then dropped to monthly”, CCN328).
As if providing insufficient notice and holding them during the holiday period wasn’t enough; is there any reason why this profligate mob cannot use Zoom or Jitsi like other organisations do?
Email, Feb 9
Dave Horsfall, North Gosford
Can someone please explain to me why we still have an administrator in place? Surely Rik Hart’s time in the seat is past it’s use by date, both in terms of returning democracy to the Coast but also in terms of his patronising con-act been going on for too long. He is fooling no one any longer with his gaslighting attempts to tell residents that he knows better than any caring, rate-paying resident what is needed here. Council claims the financial matters are largely sorted, so job done, time to move on.
Time as well for the State Government to own up to its mess, send Mr. Hart back to retirement, where he should never have come out of, and return decision making on the Coast back to its rightful place; democratically elected locals. Nothing justifies the 14+ month period in administration. Like Rik, I personally don’t want to see the likes of Jane Smith, Greg Best and other ousted toxic councillors return, but that is a matter for the residents to decide.
Time for the State Government to reinstate our democracy and do their best to clean the egg on their face for having kept the Central Coast under administration for so long. Despite many individuals and governing bodies having fallen short since, there is no denying the root of this mess is the shambolic amalgamation they led and the lack of appropriate oversight from the State Government. No one wins from this mess and the Libs in State Government need to stop playing politics with democracy on the Coast to keep Labor out of Council.