We, the members of Mannering Park Progress, wish to express our deep resentment with regard to the unacceptable, and ongoing, expenditure on Central Coast Airport at Warnervale.
Central Coast councillors have adopted the plan for this white elephant which is losing ratepayers year-on-year more than $150,000 and, in addition, Central Coast Council has committed $625,000 dedicated to upgrade the airport over the next two years.
Meanwhile we, the ratepayers, watch our roads disintegrate before our eyes and now spend our time driving on joined-up potholes to our destinations around the Coast.
Anything we, the community, ask for that would help thousands of people over time, like a public toilet in our shopping strip, is denied, often because of the ongoing costs.
Apparently, this same logic doesn’t apply to the airport.
The Federal Government has further diminished Council’s grant funding so Council is being asked to do more with less, yet it still finds the money for this funding sinkhole.
Why?
We know there is a gulf between what Council is able to deliver and community expectations but to fund an entity which cannot make a good business case, and certainly wouldn’t stand up to any fiscal scrutiny, is unacceptable.
The airport may, in 40 years’ time, turn a profit, who can believe that?
So, ratepayers continue to pour good money after bad into the project for an elite few.
If the Warnervale airport can be justified because it delivers medical evacuations and a rescue service along with small aircraft pilot training then let the NSW State Government and users of the airport pay for it in full.
Let’s get Council back to its core business of roads, rates and rubbish while reversing the cost-shifting of the NSW Government for once.
Email, Sept 7
Kelvin Wynn, President
Mannering Park Progress
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