As we head into the year of the local government elections, 2020, we still have three councillors who have attended all 51 ordinary or extraordinary council meetings since the term began in September 2017.
The first meeting for 2020 is this Monday night, February 10.
Below are the latest figures.
Troy Marquart, Lib: absent: 12 meetings.
Cr Marquart had a medical emergency in November 2017 which has seen him with the highest number of absences.
Chris Burke, Lib: absent: 10
Doug Vincent, ALP: absent: 8
Rebecca Gale, Lib: absent: 7
Chris Holstein, Ind: absent: 6
Lisa Matthews, (Mayor from September 2019) ALP: absent: 5
Richards Mehrtens, ALP: absent: 4
Jilly Pilon, Lib: absent: 4
Jillian Hogan, ALP: absent: 4
Greg Best, Ind: absent: 4
Jeff Sundstrom, ALP: absent: 1
Bruce McLachlan, Ind: absent: 1
Jane Smith (Mayor until Sept 2019, now deputy), Ind: √ Has attended all council meetings
Kyle MacGregor, ALP: √ Attended all
Louise Greenaway, Ind: √ Attended all
The first meeting of the Central Coast Council was the extraordinary meeting held on September 25, 2017 where the mayor and the deputy mayor were elected.
More detail if you’re really really interested:
So far the council has held:
extraordinary meetings: 6 (Last one December 16, 2019)
ordinary meetings: 45 (Last one December 9, 2019)
The May 28, 2018, meeting extended to June 4 and June 4 isn’t counted as a new meeting.
The CEO Gary Murphy attended his first meeting on July 9, 2018.
First new Governance Director Evan Hutchings attended his first meeting on April 29, 2019.
The next new Governance Director Dr Liz Devlin attended her first meeting on September 9, 2019.
Central Coast Council Watch was started by me, retired journalist Merilyn Vale, when the councillors were elected in 2017.
I upload FB accounts of each meeting in the hope that those posts will form a database for voters to use before the 2020 elections to assess the councillors’ contributions.
Updated after December 16 extraordinary meeting, 2019. Copyright: Merilyn Vale
