Front door closed for council meeting
What is happening with our dysfunctional council?
I expect to be able to access Gosford Council meetings by using the front door of our council building in Mann Street, Gosford.
When I arrived, running a little late on September 2, well before 7pm, my progress was blocked by a locked front door and a half obscured and not very accurate sign which was extremely misleading.
I needed to go back to my vehicle and go around the back of the building in Henry Parry Dr to the level three access.
I was lucky not to be a disabled person - this would have been a disaster for someone in a wheelchair.
What possible reason could there be for interfering by restricting with our right as ratepayers to access a scheduled public meetings in our council building?
Could it be a political activist was intent on revisiting council code of conduct issues identifying the long running three-way battle between Gosford Council, Coca Cola and the Azzopardi family made the council nervous?
Whatever the reason, politicians may be comfortable with back door arrangements, but ratepayers are entitled to much more that last minute restricted access.
What a bloody disgrace.
Edward James,
Umina