FORUM: – More than two years of Council under Administration have brought higher rates and worse services. There is little evidence of reforms to improve the efficiency, culture, or productivity…
Ratepayers in the former Gosford LGA should check their rates notices carefully as Central Coast Council has changed reference numbers, assessment numbers and BPAY biller codes. Some ratepayers have reported…
The Peninsula Chamber of Commerce has called on Central Coast Council to “think laterally” and sell off unproductive land assets to help pay down Council’s debt. The local Chamber has…
Forum – Ratepayers were hit by a double whammy when Central Coast Council confirmed its applications for a 34 per cent water rate hike and an extension of the 15…
Forum – I have some good news for Wyong ratepayers. I have just received my latest annual rate notice with a total cost of $1856, a saving of $163. Note…
Forum – The recently released Central Coast Council four year Operational Plan has some excellent initiatives but also some glaringly short sighted misjudgments and poor use of our scarce funds,…
Forum – In connection with the coming rates rises, Adam Crouch says that ‘it’s completely unfair for ratepayers to have to pay for the mistakes and failings of the councillors’…
Beaches at Terrigal Beach, Avoca Beach, North Avoca, Macmasters Beach, Copacabana, Forresters Beach and Wamberal are on the list of Coast beaches earmarked for paid visitor parking. Lakeside and other…
Forum – Central Coast Council seems content on shifting the blame for its poor financial performance on the unlawful accessing of funds from the Restricted Fund. In a letter to…
Forum – Whilst ratepayers can understand Administrator Dick Persson’s explanations for the need for ratepayers to pay more in via rate increases to cover Central Coast Council debt, our minds…
Forum – So, fellow Central Coast ratepayers, this seems to be where we are at right now. The Government-appointed Administrator and his appointed Acting CEO do not think the currently…
Forum – Some time prior to our Council amalgamation, Wyong ratepayers were required to pay a 7.6 percent Special Rate Variation (SRV), inclusive of an ordinary rate increase, on a…
Central Coast Administrator, Dick Persson, has issued a statement to explain his decision to make a $380,000 termination payment to former Chief Executive Officer, Gary Murphy. “Ratepayers’ anger about my…
Forum – Will the ratepayers foot the cost of covering Central Coast Council’s loss of $89M? Has this money been spent to benefit ratepayers? Will the persons involved in creating…
Relief is at hand for ratepayers impacted by COVID-19 as quarterly rate bills land in letterboxes all over the region. Central Coast Council is reminding residents that it has put…
Central Coast ratepayers could be in for a reprieve with State regulatory changes that allow councils to delay sending out the first quarterly rates notice for 2020-21. Central Coast Council…