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14 Jun 2022
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No council option to retain Pelican Park playground
Woy Woy consultation open for three more weeks
Tesch encourages locals to have their say
Council holds 15-minute online information sessions
Peninsula News readers disadvantaged
Vietnam Veterans' case officer awarded OAM
Umina oval and leisure centre are major budget items
Council elections delayed more than two years
Labor call for council democracy 'sooner, not later'
Bonanza Book Fair to benefit PCYC
Maritime historian speaks to Umina Rotary club
Woy Woy library to be repainted
Car boot sales prove opportunity for Men's Shed
Rotary club raises $25,000 from Opera in Arboretum
Random patrols at shopping centre
New patron for Rotary club
Microplastics workshop to be held at Patonga
Support available following plastic bag ban
More than 630 houses to be without power this month
Rotary club members collect $6000 for Salvos
Men's Shed to operate at two sites while shed is built
Senior surf presentation held at Diggers
Need for community education about trees, says GUST
Just 6mm in 16 days is well below average
Collapse  PLANNING PLANNING
Channel plan to cost $1.2M for five 'precincts'
Peninsula News launches Peninsula planning portal
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Repair Pelican Park, don't remove it
Feeble justification for delay in council democracy
Masterplan leaves unanswered questions
Council operating budget needs to fix problems
Administrator should be replaced before election
Unelected council should not keep spending our money
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Active cases lowest since January 2
Baby baskets donated to mark branch birthday
Aged care volunteers wanted
BreastScreen returns to Woy Woy CWA
Sister Carmel Silvas retires after 49 years' nursing
Women's Health Donor Circle started for health centre
Aged care residents make 'fiddle quilts'
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Music scholarships announced after annual concert
'Great families of folk' to perform at folk club
Monthly play readings resume
'Curved piecing' in patchwork workshop
Watercolour perspectives in the landscape
New art gallery from local artists
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Woy Woy Roosters look to bounce back
'Come and try' outrigger canoes
Donation for hospital surgical area paging system
Bridge club to hold national qualifying event
Woy Woy in 28-0 rugby union defeat

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Council operating budget needs to fix problems

Administrator Hart claims that "a large percentage of Council's operating budget is invested in roads." (CCN 10 June, page 3).

Well, that is not enough.

It does not cover the poorly designed and badly maintained roads and drains, lack of kerbing, guttering and footpaths.

Nor the verges, parklands and open spaces overgrown and choked with weeds and litter.

Nor the badly designed and poorly maintained stormwater outfalls eroding sand dunes and destroying foreshores and waterways.

Mr Hart needs to invest the largest part of our ratepayers' revenue in the operating budget and then make sure that the largest percentage of that is spent on fixing those problems.

That will go a large percentage of the way to improving liveability, habitability and the environment for the largest part of the population of this local government area.

And it will also provide infrastructure to support the increasing development and growth Council keeps approving.

Mr Hart and the chief executive claim to have been clever in rescuing the budget so quickly from its catastrophic state.

With that done, and while they don't have to deal with "interference from councillors", let's now see how quickly they can turn things around on the ground.





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