The Weekly News 5@5
Central Coast‘s Weekly News in a convenient audio & video format. February 2022. This week: School returned this week – with joy and angst> 28,000 local COVID cases and 16…
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Council forges ahead with request to extend 13 per cent rate hike
Central Coast Council Administrator Rik Hart has officially endorsed the Council’s submission to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal asking to keep the current rate rise for 10 years. Last…
Three meetings in two weeks
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…
IPART asked to clarify Council’s rush to spend on desalination
Veteran environmental campaigner and long-term Jilliby resident Mike Campbell has called upon IPART to provide the community with clear and unambiguous timeframes for Central Coast Council’s $250M plan for a…
Council releases one out of 744 survey responses
Local resident Madeleine is not at all satisfied with Central Coast Council but she believes the best service it offers is the six curbside garbage collections per year. Madeleine is…
Low rate peg throws out Council’s numbers
Central Coast Council Administrator Rik Hart has joined the chorus of councils criticising the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s rate pegging. IPART has infuriated Councils across NSW with its latest,…
The Weekly News 5@5
Welcome to Central Coast Newspapers’ Weekly News 5@5 December 17, 2021. This week’s themes are COVID – Christmas and its election season. The Prime Minister was in town on Thursday…
Majority oppose water price hike – IPART Chair
The vast majority of more than 2,000 submissions and responses received by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) on Central Coast Council’s proposed 34 per cent water rate hike…
Hart asks for feedback on rates and service levels
Central Coast Council Administrator Rik Hart is stepping up his campaign to have the 13 per cent Special Rates Variation (SRV) granted by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART)…
Rates up and still waiting for infrastructure
Forum – My rates bill just came in with an increase of 30 per cent. This is a jump of $100 per quarter. Now my bill is for $438 and…
Hart takes aim at government and agencies
Central Coast Council can’t attract staff, can’t keep staff and can’t get meetings with the State Government. “It’s like nobody wants to know us.” Local politicians, the media and the…
Water rates rise would see you pay $310 to $347 more
The average rise in water rates for Central Coast residents will be more than $300pa if a 34 per cent rate rise proposed by Central Coast Council is approved by…
IPART confirms Council wants a $300+ water rate increase
The average rise in water rates for Central Coast residents will be more than $300pa if the 34 per cent rate rise proposed by Central Coast Council is approved by…
Mary questions Council on consultation
Peninsula resident Mary Doherty told an inquiry into water prices that she had complained to Central Coast Council about dirty water and Council responded by sending her two packets of…
No timeframe for report to Minister
Central Coast Council still does not report the number of employees in every budget, so the community still doesn’t know where the big spending cuts are being made, according to…
Council debt never higher than $440M says Inquiry witness
Central Coast Council still does not report the number of employees in every budget, so the community still doesn’t know where the big spending cuts are being made, according to…
Show results before increasing water rates
Forum – Not content with loading ratepayers with massive rate increases, the Administrator now wants to force a 34 per cent hike in water rates on suffering residents (“Tribunal wants…
IPART forum to consider draft ferry charges
A public forum will be held on October 18 to hear feedback from passengers and ferry operators following the announcement that draft fares for Central Coast Ferries may rise from…
Service cuts to come if rates don’t stay at 15 per cent
Libraries, childcare centres, sports grounds, outdoor swimming pools and theatres could be some of the services to be cut back if Central Coast Council is unsuccessful in its attempt to…
Council asks community to support rate rise extension
Central Coast Council will continue to push for a seven-year extension of the 15 per cent general rates rise, which came into effect on July 1 for a three-year capped…