Comments on: Airport masterplan a waste of money

By: Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:24:44 +0000

The Council should sell the Airport. its a money sink and brings no real value to the average rate payer. Its just a parking lot for a few peoples expensive toys.

By: Reece Martin

Reece Martin — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:17:05 +0000

In reply to Paul. it's not 0.8c as not everyone in the population pays rates mate. There are a lot of jobs that are needed in Council that would be more useful like processing DA's. this whole project is for the rich end of town to play with their toys whilst the rest of us struggle to pay for groceries. sell the airstrip or bulldoze the thing and put some factories there.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:45:26 +0000

If 1 job is created 0.8 cents per week is cheap.

By: Concerned Ratepayer

Concerned Ratepayer — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:38:31 +0000

Peter, I need to point out that there are not 340,000 ratepayers in our council area.
But more relevant is the fact that a group of people have had and are getting a free ride at the ratepayers expense.
They are operating a facility which is not available to 99.9% of residents at the ratepayers expense.
What other council provided public facility which takes up multiple hectares of land and has a going concern running on it costs ratepayers $158k a year ? That’s probably $1.5 million in the last ten years. That’s not chicken feed!
Most people are not against the airport !
User pays is the norm, why have council failed the ratepayers on this one?

chicken feed!
Most people are all for the airport but it should be a user pays system.

By: Evan Schrei

Evan Schrei — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:03:57 +0000

In reply to Peter. I didn't know preschool children paid rates.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:40:58 +0000

So we are looking at around $150k per year, divided amongst 340,000 ratepayers A that equates to.. 44 cents per year.
44 cents per year is 0.8 cents per week per ratepayer, to ensure RFS, air ambulance and flight training are catered for, as well as the future of our region having an airport.
Are people really upset over 0.8 cents per week?

By: Evan Schrei

Evan Schrei — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:14:53 +0000

This money sink costs the rate payers 150k per year and now we are going to increase the deficit for years to come. Don’t be fooled, this isnt the the benifit of the average Central Coast rate payer. The average punter doesn’t have to worry about where to park their Cessna for 20 odd dollars a day. This whole thing is so some fat cats get to play with their toys at our expense. I say scrap the whole thing and expand the industrial zone and bring some real jobs to the Coast.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:40:25 +0000

should upgrade warnervale airport put the council as no vision for the future