Have five connected council meeting venues

The facts about amalgamation:

Wyong rules.

Central Coast Councillors have limited confidence in modern technology.

This amalgamation has caused Council meetings to be permanently moved to Wyong. The evidence is overwhelming.

Gosford is now the poor relative to Wyong.

With the State Government controlling the Council's administration, it will not be long before residents living south of the Tuggerah railway station will choose to watch re-runs of M.A.S.H., instead of attending a Council meeting. (M.A.S.H. or Wyong?)

Connection with the community is about taking the meeting to the people, as was practised by Gosford Council.

Those days have gone.

Gosford chambers have limited space for expansion.

Large public attendance, with small lifts and security, will be distractions in the event of an emergency.

To provide one venue to host Council meetings will be prohibitive.

The answer to the councillor's problem is simple.

There should be a venue prepared in each of the five wards to hold the meeting.

Each ward would be electronically connected to the HQ where the mayor and senior Council staff would control the meeting.

This would be an arrangement suitable for councillors and the public.

It would not matter if HQ was permanently at Wyong or Gosford, as it would only involve travel arrangements for the mayor and senior staff.

Letter, 5 Dec 2018

Norman Harris, Umina