Central Coast Council Administrator Rik Hart and CEO David Farmer are determined to leave their mark on the Coast before they go next year.
They are about to sell off the last asset they can get their hands on (the former Gosford chambers site) and then will turn their attention to their swan song – the waterfront.
Fortunately the $8.5M the State Labor Government promised for a feasibility study has not arrived yet.
If it does then it will mark the start of the spending of hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ and ratepayers’ money on a project that at best is laughable and at worst will put the Coast’s ratepayers in debt for many years to come.
Next year when the new councillors are elected, hopefully we will remember that the dire financial situation which the waterfront will cause is not of their making.
The Administrator waxed lyrical recently that after a soccer match at the stadium the crowds would be able to swarm over to the new waterfront and have a night of revelry.
Oh dear me, can you just imagine that.
Email, May 26
Geoff Mitchell, Kariong
Already waste is creeping in. Saw a guy replacing perfectly good street signs with new rebranded (CCC) signs.
To add to the problem there is a sign that says “To Nari Avenue” but not the street you are actually on which is coolant Ave??