Merilyn Vale

Australia

Journo, journo trainer, trumpet learner, grammar student, back of the pack runner, ex-smoker, mostly. https://t.co/I0ktxegVfH @cccouncilwatch

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Councillor raises concerns over being named in run sheet

4 days ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

Councillor Corinne Lamont has expressed concern following the discovery of a document prior to the May 27 Central Coast Council meeting. Titled Run Sheet May, the document listed a number of items on the agenda for the meeting. It put the initials of Liberal councillors as the movers of the recommendations of the items and mentioned a motion by Lamont proposing the introduction of a petition policy for council. The run sheet said to vote it down, emphasised in capital letters.
Five sites for mountain bikes "noted"

1 week ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

Five locations have been identified as potentially appropriate sites for mountain bike infrastructure on the Coast. Four are former landfill sites that may have the capacity to be developed to support either minor or major mountain bike infrastructure. One of them is the former Green Point site at 165 Koolang Rd.The 24ha is also on a Central Coast Council list for being a potential sport ground.
Airport expressions of interest to be called

1 week ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

Central Coast Council will call for expressions of interest for “aviation purposes” to come to Warnervale Airport, after failing to sign up Nighthawks, a business that approached Council for a helipad lease at the airport. Nighthawks approached Council asking for a quick decision late last year. But in April this year, while Council was still in its due diligence stage, the company said it would take the business to Melbourne.
Council fails yet again to fulfil GIPA obligations

1 week ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

The Information and Privacy Commission (IPC) has again upheld a complaint about Central Coast Council. It’s the third case this year that has been made public. The IPC looked at three issues relating to a resident complaining about not being able to get any information from Council using the Government Information Public Access (GIPA) Act.
Petition calls for investigation into coastal management

2 weeks ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

Councillor Corinne Lamont has launched a petition calling for an investigation into coastal management. With flooding and coastal erosion taking centre stage for residents as the wet weather continues this week, Lamont wants the community to sign the petition calling on the NSW Government to urgently investigate what she describes as years of systemic coastal mismanagement by Central Coast Council.
Kariong Glyphs mystery explained

2 weeks ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

A plausible explanation for the Kariong hieroglyphics links the mystery of who carved them to an interior wall of the derelict Brisbane Water County Council (BWCC) building in Mann St, Gosford. The answer is not aliens, or ancient Egyptians. It was more likely an American artist who lived at Berkeley Vale in the 1970s. He carved 22 panels of Gosford sandstone, which were then mounted on a foyer wall of the BWCC.
Possible steps for beach protection; experts to be called in

3 weeks ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

Central Coast Council CEO David Farmer and Mayor Lawrie McKinna will meet with relevant State Government Ministers in State Parliament on Thursday, May 15, to discuss coastal erosion on the Central Coast. The meeting was mentioned at an extraordinary Council meeting held on Tuesday, May 13, and was central to the debate on how best to deal with the coastal erosion already threatening homes at Wamberal and The Entrance North beaches.
Councillors agree job takes at least 20 hours a week

3 weeks ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

Six months into the job and three-and-half years to go; how are Central Coast councillors coping with their new roles? Coast Community News asked the councillors to tell us how much time their role was taking, after a councillor at another NSW council last week resigned saying the hours were too much. Bellingen Shire Council’s deputy mayor, Councillor Ellie Tree, stepped down citing workload with being a single mum of three, study and a full-time job. It was her second term.
Premier fails to meet Council demand for state of emergency

3 weeks ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

After the NSW Premier failed to respond to Central Coast Council’s demands from its first extraordinary meeting last week, councillors will meet again this week to consider their options about coastal erosion. Council had wanted the Premier to call a state of emergency by 3pm on Friday, May 9, for all Central Coast beaches. This would have allowed Council emergency powers to take quick action against coastal erosion.
Sod turning ceremony on Saturday for Terrigal's community garden

1 month ago | coastcommunitynews.com.au | Merilyn Vale

After three years of planning and engaging the community for support, the Terrigal Community Garden project is about to break ground on the site chosen for the garden. Project organisers will hold a Turning of the First Sod ceremony to celebrate the start of the garden on Saturday, May 10, at noon. The ceremony will be held at the garden site on the corner of Duffys Rd and Terrigal Dr at the rear of the 50 Plus Leisure and Learning Centre.