No more half-baked makeshift planning, please!
Forum – Assuming that it ever gets started on time, the redevelopment of the Ocean Beach/Rawson Roads intersection is going to disrupt traffic through this bottleneck for the next five…
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Is latest announcement a good or a bad thing?
Forum – Is the latest announcement by Adam Couch on changes to DA processes a warning sign for us to heed? (“New funding to speed up assessment times for regionally…
Funding should be based on merit and equity, not political self interest
Forum – Here we go again, following closely on the heels of this Government’s $100M sports rorts fiasco and the Western Sydney airport land purchase for more than 10 times…
Administrator accused of sophistry of the highest order
Forum – I would like to respond to the Administrator, Rik Hart’s, suggestion that the rate rise is needed beyond three years. He has accused local political leaders of choosing…
Coast impacted by Covid restrictions unnecessarily
Forum – With the current and, no doubt, future lockdowns for the Greater Sydney region, can the Central Coast’s five State Government representatives push to exclude the Coast from being…
Sensors and blue ink could just solve the shopping trolley problem
Forum – I can’t believe (there will be a) meeting regarding the disposal of shopping trolleys (CCN300). First, on multiple occasions over the years I have (called) supermarkets and their…
Buck-passing over Gosford public wharf is a disgrace
Forum – I applaud the signs that Central Coast Council has recently taken some initiative to remediate the environmental vandalism resulting from illegal mountain bike trail construction in some of…
In the real world, productivity drives higher salaries
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…
Ring your bell!
Forum – I would like to say thank you to Liesl Tesch (Member for Gosford) for her article in the Coast Community Pelican Post dated July 1, 2021 “Bike users…
$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…
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….