New councillors needed now

I must agree with Mr Peter Primrose, the Shadow Minister for Local Government (I'm not a member of the Labor Party) that we need to have urgent elections for the new Central Coast Super Council to have the new councillors now not later.

The new councillors can do all the things he has stated in the article, including meet with local residents on issues that matter to them.

They would have a say on the direction the new council would take as they have talked with the community and would have a better idea of what is needed for the Coast.

The administrator was appointed by the State Government, yes, but he is paid out of our rates and as such he should be accountable to the residents of the Coast but I can't see that happening.

If we had the 20 councillors we need for the whole Coast, we would get the proper representation we need for all the communities that make up this wonderful place we all call home.

If the new council is made up of less than 20 councillors then the Coast's outer lying suburbs will suffer even more through the lack of representation than they went through when we had the old councils.

Suburbs like Patonga and Umina, Mangrove Mountain, Wyee, Gwandalan and Summerland Point will probably not have a local representative if the number of councillors is lower than 20.

I hope when the NSW Government finally comes up with the end game of this merger they won't reduce the number of representatives we have as this will be to the detriment of the whole Central Coast.

Email, 4 Aug 2016

Carl Veugen, Umina