As (recently) revealed, Central Coast Council was the most complained about council in NSW for 2022-2023.
This can be attributed to a range of factors including ongoing uncertainty around the Council’s financial situation, recent rate hikes, the closure of community services and the sale of public land.
This year, ratepayers will head to the polls to reintroduce councillors for the first time since 2020, when the Council was put into administration.
As a community, we need to learn from the mistakes of the past and use it as an opportunity to shape a better future for our region.
Popularly elected representatives are the cornerstone of democracy and their reintroduction should be seen positively as a way of focusing on what matters to us most collectively.
For the majority of residents, this is the prioritisation of core council matters, in what is often labelled as the “3 R’s” – roads, rates and rubbish.
Councillors focused on fiscal and economic management and the social needs of the Central Coast will be fundamental in charting a path back to surplus and reinstating the services and initiatives that we need.
Email, Jan 7
Jared Wright, Avoca Beach