Plan sets ambitious task

The Peninsula News 26 June (Edition 422) community plan from Pearl Beach states there are 18 policy categories included.

Gosford City Council's Community Strategic Plan contained four policy categories; Society and Culture, Environment, Economy, and Governance and Leadership.

The one question that was and is the most interesting and remains unanswered is from Governance and Leadership on page 22: "How do we ensure accountability and transparency in decision making?"

The proposed plan includes 18 policy categories against the council's four, to be administered by 15 new councillors in a new local government area stretching from Sutherland Point to the Hawkesbury River, with a population of 370,000.

Unless administrator Ian Reynolds opens the council's books to all councillor candidates, a month before the September elections, potential councillors should not have any preconceived ideas regarding the council's administration.

How 15 councillors representing five wards are going to address 18 policy categories is yet to be answered.

Gosford City Council's Community Strategic Plan did not fill the gap left by the removal of the State of the Environment Reports and the following Sustainability Reports.

Letter, 28 Jun 2017

N Harris, Umina