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April 23 meeting

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    Two major community issues dominate the agenda of the April 23 council meeting. First off, it's the draft operational plan and budget for the next financial year. It shows that Council plans to remove the remaining subsidy for the Juniors sports usage fees. Other fees go up by about six per cent.   The second big issue is the community responses to the airport … [Read more...] about April 23 meeting

March meeting highlights

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  Staff respond to discussion paper. Staff complained of being bombarded with reforms in their submission on the State Department’s discussion paper on short and long term rental accommodation. The administrator did not deal with this item due to his previously noted non pecuniary interest with a relative having a property on the coast used as a short term … [Read more...] about March meeting highlights

February meeting highlights

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Airport masterplan in six months   A Status Update on Active Council Resolutions tells us that the airport masterplan was supposed to come back to Council by the end of 2023 but it will be the middle of year before we see it. Other reports such as the Winney Bay upgrade plan and the mountain bike plan are also behind schedule. : : COSS Trial support "in principle" The … [Read more...] about February meeting highlights

Highlights of the January 2024 meeting

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# Two Species Management Plans (SMPs) one for a critically endangered shrub, the Scrub Turpentine, and the second one for a threatened microbat, the Broad-footed Myotis, was adopted. These are the first of many SMPs to come. The report explained the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 has increased the level of protection of threatened species by requiring developers to … [Read more...] about Highlights of the January 2024 meeting