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Attendance record – updated May 5, 2019

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Council meetings: Councillors’ attendance record – May 5, 2019

Updated after the April 29,  2019, meeting.

Gosford West Ward

Troy Marquart:  absent: 9

  1. Missed November 2017 meeting due to a medical emergency.
  2. Apology: January 29 meeting due to medical issues.
  3. Applied for leave of absence  via Councillor Chris Burke addressing council on February 12, 2018.
  4. Feb 26, 2018
  5. March 12, 2018
  6. March 26,  2018 (Returned April 9 meeting.)
  7. April 11, 2018 Extraordinary meeting.
  8. September 10, 2018
  9. February 25, 2019

Chris Holstein: absent: 3

  1. May 14, 2018
  2. August 27, 2018
  3. October 8, 2018

Richards Mehrtens:  2

  1. July 23, 2018
  2. November 26, 2108

Gosford East Ward

Jane Smith (Mayor): √

Rebecca Gale Collins: 2

  1. January 29 meeting, 2019
  2. April 8 meeting, 2019

Jeff Sundstrom: 1

  1. March 11, 2019

The Entrance Ward

Lisa Matthews: absent: 5

  1. December 7, 2017
  2. June 25, 2018
  3. July 23, 2018
  4. September 10, 2018
  5. February 25, 2019

Jilly Pilon: absent: 3

  1. June 25, 2018
  2. September 10, 2018
  3. November 26, 2018

Bruce McLachlan: √

Wyong Ward

Kyle MacGregor: √

Louise Greenaway: √

Chris Burke: absent: 7

  1. April 9, 2018.
  2. July 9, 2018
  3. July 23. 2018
  4. September 10, 2018
  5. November 26, 2018 (Medical leave)
  6. December 10, 2018 (Medical leave)
  7. March 25, 2019

Budgewoi Ward 

Doug Vincent: absent: 6

  1. January 15. 2018
  2. April 11, 2018,  extraordinary meeting.
  3. April 23, 2018 
  4. November 12, 2018
  5. February 11, 2019
  6. February 25, 2019

Jillian Hogan: absent: 4

  1. October 23, 2017.
  2. December 7, 2017.
  3. January 29, 2018.
  4. August 27, 2018.

Greg Best: absent: 3

  1.  October 23, 2017.
  2. August 27, 2018.
  3. April 29, 2019
  4. Foreshadowed the May 13 meeting

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.

So far the council has held:

extraordinary meetings:  5    (Last one April 11, 2018)

ordinary meetings:             30    (Last one April 29, 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.

New Governance Director Evan Hutchings attended his first meeting on April 29, 2019.

Rescission motions 2019

Winney Bay rescission motion failed to get the votes at the first meeting of 2019. Meeting finished about 11.35pm.

The second meeting of 2019, on Feb 11, finished before 9.30pm. No rescission motions and no confidential items.

Third meeting of 2019, Feb 25 finished before 8pm. Rescission motion on Warnervale Airport failed.

Fourth meeting of 2019, March 11 finished about 10.45pm. Cr Matthews left about 9.30pm and Cr Best about 10.30pm. 
No rescission motions.

Fifth meeting of 2019, March 25 finished about 10.20pm. Cr Gale Collins left at 7.36pm (she was sick).

Six meeting of 2019, April 8, finished about 9pm.

Seventh meeting of 2019, April 29 finished about 10pm. No rescission motions. Lots of deferrals but not, finally, the affordable housing strategy.

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 assess the councillors’ contributions.

Updated May 5, 2019.