The construction sector is facing significant challenges that are impacting the development of new homes, a necessity given the urgent demand for housing. Difficulties such as rising material costs, labour…
The Council has scheduled three meetings in 13 days despite planning to reduce down to one meeting a month to save money. Council held a meeting on January 25 with…
Central Coast Council’s financial year 2020-2021 saw an operating deficit before capital grants and contributions of -$91.6M. The operating deficit including capital grants and contributions for the 2020- 2021 financial…
Suspended Councillor Greg Best has suggested the next election for Central Coast Councillors should be as far away as 2024 when the next local government elections across the state are…
Central Coast Council reached the end of July 2021 with around $110M less debt than expected. The total debt appears to be about $455M as of July 31. This was…
A public hearing to be held as part of the Inquiry into Central Coast Council may be held at the end of September but the referendum on the number of…
A revised list of tranche three land sales by Central Coast Council was made public in the lead up to last night’s (July 27) Council meeting where it was expected…
Central Coast Council received almost the same number of compliments as complaints in the first three months of this year – from January 1 to March 31 – quarter three…
Central Coast Council will need to factor in another restructure in three years’ time if it is not allowed to keep its rate rise permanently in the budget, Administrator Rik…
Suspended Councillor, Jeff Sundstrom, has called for a deeper dive into Central Coast Council’s finances after reading documents publicly released this month. The five documents give detail into the events…
It’s official, a public inquiry is to be held into Central Coast Council and the local government elections slated for September 4 will be postponed until late next year. The…
As Peninsula residents await a decision from Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock on the future of Central Coast Council, suspended Gosford West Ward councillor, Chris Holstein, has confirmed that he…
Central Coast Administrator, Dick Persson, has admitted that Council’s handling of applications for membership to the Audit, Risk and Improvement Committee (ARIC) was “not our best work”. Council failed to…
The Minister for Local Government should take whatever action is necessary to prevent the return of the suspended councillors, says Central Coast Administrator, Dick Persson. He also wants the new…
The next stage in the proposed organisation and staff restructure at Central Coast Council has been released to staff and it has cast uncertainty among the workforce that there could…
Four Director positions and their departments have been cut from Central Coast Council as part of cost-cutting, but Administrator, Dick Persson, says an extra $70M a year is needed to…
The Central Coast will continue to have the Nuclear Free Policy that the former Gosford City Council had in place. Administrator, Dick Persson, rejected a Council staff report which wanted…
Forum – I thank Rik Hart and Dick Persson for their contribution to the Central Coast residents’ financial concerns and reiterate that the situation is not the residents’ making and…
Forum – Irrespective of who or what Party the Central Coast community voted for in September 2017 to comprise the newly amalgamated Council, we are surely entitled to know the…
Central Coast Council’s draft financial statements for 2019-2020 show that employee costs were the largest operating cost and that they are up almost 10 percent above budget. Materials and contracts…