The Coast’s 15 newly elected councillors start work this Saturday, October 5, even before their first official council meeting on Tuesday, October 8, where they will take the oath of office.
Central Coast Council CEO David Farmer invited the councillors, hours after they were named on September 30, to a full day induction and orientation session on Saturday, October 5.
It will be followed by another onboarding session on October 8 from 2.30pm.
The official mayoral and deputy mayoral election will be held later that day from 6.30pm.
The 15 new councillors were officially confirmed 24 hours after Monday’s distribution of preferences.
The 24 hours was given for any candidate to request a recount.
Electoral staff confirmed no requests were received so the Monday list was declared on Tuesday as final.
The breakdown sees a majority of women elected.
They are four Labor women and one Labor man; four Liberal men and one Liberal woman; one woman and two men in Team Central Coast and two independent women.
Nine of the councillors are new to the role; four have experience as former councillors in either the former Gosford or Wyong councils and two were councillors in the Central Coast Council.
Local coffee shops should be busy