Central Coast Council keeps treating transparency as optional.
Residents open agendas stacked with hundreds of pages, motions buried in jargon, and no plain English explanation of what’s really at stake.
It gets worse.
Major items often slip through sub-committees.
They sit hidden in meeting minutes, then those minutes are adopted in bulk.
In effect, decisions with big financial or planning impacts pass without proper debate or public scrutiny.
That’s not democracy, it’s governance by stealth.
If a decision affects the community, it should be discussed openly, not quietly signed off in a bundle of paperwork.
The Coast deserves councillors who front up, explain what’s being voted on, and make decisions where the people can see them.
Anything less is contempt for the ratepayers they serve.
Email, Sep 23
Evan Schrei, Niagara Park
Fully agree Evan.
Far too many decisions are done behind closed doors by the few for the few.
Try and get the truth via a GIPA?
You’ll be lucky to get any response let alone the information you ask for.
Ever since the amalgamation residents of the Central Coast have been shafted.