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Who is running Manly Council?

14/1/2014

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Who is running Manly Council? It's certainly not the elected councillors, says Councillor Candy Bingham, who has called for an Extraordinary General Meeting to address the issue.

Cr Bingham says the council has delegated extensive powers to General Manager Henry Wong. The result is that major decisions are being made with no input from councillors and sometimes without them even knowing what's going on. 

The latest affront concerns a plan to include a water polo pool in addition to council's $15 million upgrade of Manly's Boy Charlton Swim Centre. Clr Bingham said she found out by chance that a development application (DA) for the water polo pool was lodged late last month. Councillors were not notified this was happening until the day before the story appeared in the Manly Daily.

“The last input councillors had on a possible polo pool was a Mayoral Minute in October to ‘explore the possibility’ of providing such a facility. Now, suddenly, a DA is lodged complete with full design drawings” she said.

"I'm not against the possibility of a water polo pool being built at the swim centre.  I'm just outraged at the contempt with which the elected councillors are treated," she said. 

The same approach has been taken with the long-awaited due diligence reports on the council's $80 million Manly 2015 Plan which includes a major redevelopment of the Whistler St site and a multi-million dollar car park under Manly oval.

"It appears that the General Manager is planning to submit a CapEx (Captial Expenditure) submission to the Division of Local Government this month, on this multi-million dollar project, (update15/1/13: this has now been done) although no formal Council resolution has been made that the project should proceed”, Cr Bingham said. "This is not how a democratic council should be run."

According to Clr Bingham the corresponding due diligence reports were only released last month, three days before Christmas. “Again there has been no opportunity for councillors to debate the new information and its implications for the controversial Manly 2015 Plan,” she said

The request for an Extraordinary Meeting has been lodged by Clrs Candy Bingham and Hugh Burns to bring the due diligence reports for Manly 2015 back to Council.


1 Comment
Warren Riley
11/1/2014 02:46:05 am

I note the new DA for a water polo on the site of the old 25m pool, despite a statement that that area was unsuitable because of the flood plain so obvious there. In correspondence I submitted some 6mths ago, I suggested extending that pool and using plastic hot air filled cover during winter months at a similar cost to that mooted by council.
As water polo, would only require the pool during summer, this option would satisfy their needs and eliminate the expensive indoor pool in the original plan. I agree, who is running Manly Council?

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