$210,000 per car space … that wasn’t on the leaflets
Forum – Woy Woy commuter car park to cost more than $210,000 per space!!! More than 4 times the recommenced benchmark cost. Based on these figures that is 15 times…
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It was always the long term goal to maintain the new rate levels
Forum – The latest in the financial fiasco saga is that Central Coast Council, meaning our Administrator, plans to make the just approved three year rate impost permanent (“Council flags…
Brickbats and bouquets for Operational Plan
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,…
If Covid variants have name of origin, why not Covid itself?
Forum – As the Central Coast is again back into another lockdown and we are updated each day with the number of new cases of the latest Delta variant of…
Suburbs on Lake Macquarie should be part of Lake Macquarie Council
Forum – Here we are again, facing a third week of lockdown and more with tighter restrictions because we live in the Central Coast Council boundary even though we are…
Higher wages yet services and productivity have deteriorated
Forum – The revelation that Central Coast Council CEO, David Farmer, earns more than $500,000, none of which is dependent on hitting performance or productivity targets, illustrates one of the…
Push to make rate increase permanent ‘deceitful’
Forum – I refer to the story Jump in rates for Gosford area (CCN, July 2); it didn’t take long for the lies to become apparent! What a waste of…
Sydney Metro should pay us to take its sand
Forum – The latest unelected Council Administrator wants to pay for sand to replenish Wamberal foreshore. Sydney Metro West is currently required to dispose of the spoil from the tunnel…
Kicking the can down the road
Forum – In his 30 day report, the Central Coast Council Interim Administrator, Dick Persson, criticised the previous Council for not reducing expenditure after it received less revenue than expected…
Is anybody out there?
Forum – On June 25, I penned a letter to suspended councillor, Jane Smith, about her new group, Friends of Democracy, which was launched with the aim of giving the…
New health mantra not wanted
Forum – Historically, Liberal governments are no friends of Medicare. Spending billions fighting American no win wars, such as Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan, is more important than your health….
A mobile library is self evidently second best and inadequate
Forum – Following the decision by the Administrator at the June 29 Central Coast Council meeting to close The Entrance Library on July 30 July, I have now been informed…
How did we let it get to this?
Forum – Australia announced its first COVID case on January 25, 2020. The World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020….
High-quality, ‘no-dickheads’ footy – well done boys
Forum – While walking past the Umina Oval around 5.00 pm last week, my attention was caught by a group of perhaps 20 lads. They were energetically playing what appeared…
Does a referendum really cost $1.75M?
Forum – Could we get it cheaper? Well, I think so. It would appear that when the NSW Electoral Office advised it was unable to supervise/conduct our completely unnecessary referendum…
Deep trauma on victims and pets that survive dog attacks
Forum – The recent news story of a woman was killed in Queensland by a dog attack brought tears to my eyes. The horror that poor soul suffered in her…
Can’t find out which vaccine best suits my condition
Forum – As a cancer patient, along with thousands currently going through treatments, I have tried to find out which Coronavirus shot best suits my treatment of immunotherapy. I have…
Council has neither the expertise nor the resources to solve housing problems
Forum – According to the Community Housing Industry Association, Central Coast has a backlog of 3,000 affordable housing units (“3,000 households on the Coast waiting for social housing”, Chronicle p15…
Requests for information fall on deaf ears
Forum – The Entrance library is still slated to close on June 25. I have had no response from the Minister for Local Government to the two petitions I hand…
Objectors need to stick to the facts
Forum – With respect to the application for a boarding house at Toukley (“Proposed Toukley boarding house open for public comment again”, Chronicle p26 June 16)), I think that some…