OUR PLAN FOR THE FUTURE

Only Dominic Perrottet and Melanie Gibbons have a long-term plan to keep NSW moving forward.

Our Plan means:

Growing our economy – and we’ll do it without taxing you more.

Reducing the pressure on household budgets.

Investing in our frontline services for the long-term.

Empowering local communities.

Dominic Perrottet Premier of New South Wales

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Concreting

Lay 1 4 U Concreting Services: Slabs, house and sheds, footing, paths and drives, colour stencil, stamp exposed. 40 yr exp. t Ron 0414 724 221. Fully insured.

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Development Applications. Complying Developments

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Ask your candidate, if elected, what are their plans for Jamberoo Mountain Road?

It’s the NSW State election this weekend and although our local council elections are a year or so behind us, I doubt there is a single councillor who won’t remember how it feels.

We recall the anxiousness, the sheer mental effort and the excitement that our state candidates are experiencing right now.

After Saturday, we’ll know who we’ll be working with for the next four years. In the leadup, if you’re looking to quiz your potential State representatives on how they’ll represent local issues, here’s what I’d suggest you

It was a state road, but the government abdicated ownership, now we must beg, cap in hand to receive funding for repairs. We need the state’s help, if not to take it back, to provide enough money to go beyond repairing this vital arterial road. We need to rebuild it better, so it will stay solid through the next downpour and the next decade.

Ask the party reps if their candidate will step up on water and sewerage. Our state-managed water and sewerage utilities, stormwater and water management systems have been allowed to deteriorate to a Dickensian state.

Poor health, overflows, a big pong and toilet paper bubbling up in the main street after every storm is unacceptable.

Easter services

Thursday 6 April

6.30pm – Kiama Uniting Church

7pm – Ss Peter & Paul, Kiama

Good Friday 7 April

8am – Kiama Anglican Church

8.30am – St Paul’s, M'murra

9am – Kiama Baptist Church

9.30am – Kiama Uniting Church

10am – Ss Peter & Paul, Kiama; Kiama Anglican Church; St Mary Star of the Sea, G'gong; St Matthew’s, Jamberoo

3pm – Ss Peter & Paul, Kiama and local businesses, particularly in regional areas such as ours?

In terms of local planning, we must work with a set of local planning regulations that were made in Macquarie Street back in 1993. During the past 40 years, the legislation has had so many tweaks and stitched-up sections it looks Frankenstein.

Ask your candidate: will they be providing additional resources to work with councils to make a new fit-for-purpose system that is sympathetic to our needs and not just the needs of developers? And while they’re at it, what will they do to improve the NSW Planning Portal to enable it to deliver efficiencies and reduce costs for councils?

We live in a lovely spot, and thankfully many of us have secure housing, but we’re in the midst of a state-wide housing crisis. Housing is a basic human need and key to a healthy, prosperous and equitable society.

Will they invest in training and professional development beyond the metro areas? And what initiatives will they instigate to assist local farmers, businesses and the visitor economy?

We also need investment in better waste, recycling, green power and circular economy solutions.

You can be assured that, whoever is elected, your Mayor and the Council will work with them closely, collaboratively and tirelessly to achieve great outcomes for our area. Best of luck to all who are running.

Focusing on further action

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Easter Saturday 8 April

7.30pm – Ss Peter & Paul, Kiama

Easter Sunday 9 April

6am – Combined Churches

Dawn Service at Blowhole Point

7.30am – Ss Peter & Paul, Kiama

8am – Kiama Anglican Church

8.30am – St Paul’s, M'murra

9am – Kiama Baptist Church

9.30am – Kiama Uniting Church; Ss Peter & Paul, Kiama; St Matthew’s, Jamberoo; St Mary Star of the Sea, G'gong

10am – Kiama Anglican Church

6pm – Kiama Anglican Church

Ask how your candidate plans to work with Kiama Council on design, masterplanning and the acquisition of appropriate sites while retaining our valued green spaces.

Also, what can they do to ensure our children and key workers are not priced out of local markets?

Tell your candidate that your council and communities across our LGA are suffering from the impacts of skills and labour shortages, which slow economic recovery and hamper productivity. Will they invest in initiatives to attract and retain skilled labour to local government

Council's CEO, Jane Stroud, says SIP 2 is "heavily finance and asset focused, and continues on the journey we started."

The Business Papers also reveal the lifeline that the sale of Akuna Street has provided to Council.

As late as December last year, when the sale had still not been settled, the NSW Audit Office asked Council to consider a Letter support to assist its going concern status.

The only other time this has happened, with Central Coast Council, Treasury was asked to guarantee a financial bailout.

"Prior to the Akuna settlement, the books were critical," says Ms Stroud.

The Audit Office has since informed Council that a qualification pertaining to going concern will not be required.

"The improvement of Council financially and administratively, plus the improvements that are planned, have given the Audit Office a good reason not to question our status as a going concern," says Ms Stroud.

Qualifications regarding records and internal systems will remain on the accounts.

In other welcome news, the long overdue audited accounts for 2020/1 look set to be finalised and presented to the April Meeting of Council.

That will give a starting balance for the accounts for the 2021/2 year, which unusually are to be audited by the Audit Office itself.