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Collapse Issue 424 - 24 Jul 2017Issue 424 - 24 Jul 2017
Collapse  NEWS NEWS
Sporties $37.2 million redevelopment proposed
Train changes bad news for commuters, says Tesch
Leisure centre users still waiting for refund
Cashed-up baby boomers cause homelessness crisis
Parks service protects rare plants from its own crews
Council receives 27 objections to 160-bed nursing home
Council candidate opposes nursing home application
Bays survey reveals desire for more social events
Dredge work observed
Department cancels school markets
Service NSW kiosk to close, says Tesch
Presented with business awards
Claim that rare woodland has 'fallen through the cracks'
Gary Chestnut runs for council
Cafe owner to run for council
Kate da Costa to stand as Greens candidate
Neal seeks pre-selection for council
Residents encouraged to enrol for elections
Reports of mail theft
Garden competition opens
Volunteers plant native species at Wagstaffe
Police car in crash while responding to car fire
Woman arrested for stealing
Rotary farewells exchange student
Facelift for Wagstaffe Store
Collapse  FORUM FORUM
Better to have a small group of workers
'Leisurely does it' is council watchword
Council should advertise in this newspaper
Why won't government finish underpass job?
Thanks for the article
Jim retires after more than 10 years
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Three new doctors start
Rotary brings health care to Uganda
Crowdfunding purchases insulin pump
Kidney bus provided dialysis at Umina holiday park
Community service celebrates with prestigious dinner
Shopping centre to collect for children's health
Collapse  ARTS ARTS
Glee club to perform show at Pearl Beach
Folk club performers play at Newcastle
Artist exhibits at Hardys Bay
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
Pretty Beach celebrates 90 years
School focuses on four emotional states
Free onsite dental services at St John's
Call for parents to teach ethics
Sensory activities at Woy Woy
Connecting with nature
Students to decorate gum boots
Selected for choral festival
Early Australia day at Umina
Responsible computer use taught
Library to have revamp
New maths game trialled
Social researcher addresses teachers
School summarises term two sport
Collapse  SPORT SPORT
West Ham United holds coaching camp
Woy Woy moves into top four
Lifesavers at pool rescue championships
Ettalong wins open pairs for third year
Canterbury bowlers attend charity day
Woy Woy has soccer win
Team wins zone finals
Bowling club holds annual meeting
Golf club travels to Toronto
Primary children introduced to golf
Umina bowler captures veterans' title

'Leisurely does it' is council watchword

"Leisurely does it" seems to be the watchword at Central Coast Council.

The latest announcement that the Woy Woy Town Centre Master Plan will be completed in June 2020 ("Town plan, coastal works and library project scheduled", July 10) is typical.

This is three years to complete a job that any competent planner could do in nine months at the outside.

It is characteristic that, after 15 months of administration, we still do not have an integrated operational structure, an integrated website or an integrated development control plan, although we are assured that "many service and management strategies are in their formative stages."

Formative after 15 months?

Surely, the task of the administrator was to have all of those issues dealt with before the new Council took office, so that councillors could focus on critical decision-making and not on picayune matters of organization.

The Council seems to be obsessed with such matters as the Chinese fun-fair fiasco and the Warnervale airport fantasy and not concentrating on the long-term needs of the Central Coast as a whole.

Incidentally, when are we going to hear something from our Co-ordinator-General whose appointment was announced with much fanfare some time back?

It seems, as I predicted, that this will turn out to be just another excuse for a bureaucratic talkfest, full of sound and promises, signifying nothing.

Perhaps, the administrator could use his weekly newspaper column to fill us in on the issues of importance that we are facing rather than confine himself to self-congratulatory platitudes.

Roll on September.

I had high hopes for the administrator when he took office, but we obviously have to put our trust in a new elected Council to take the reins and give the region some direction.

When are the talented individuals that we need going to step forward?





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