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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Community activist Joy Cooper has slammed Central Coast Council’s decision to continue to push for a seven-year extension of the 15 per cent rates rise introduced in July this year…