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ramp and providing an additional boat
access lane.
New netting for the swimming
enclosure is also a part of the project.
The work is being done to attract
people to the headland, delivering
benefits including improved safety for
boating and greater encouragement
for families to use the playground.
Medowie Multi-purpose
Community Centre Project
This centre will serve a number of
purposes for the growing community
of Medowie. It will be a sports complex
as well as being a building to provide a
clubhouse for sporting organisations
and importantly, an evacuation centre.
Plansfor the$3millionbuildingproject
are in the process of finalisation.
Sporting bodies have been requesting
a facility of this nature for Medowie
for some time now. Facilities will also
include a bowling green, car parking
and a playground.
Council has strong
financial management
Port Stephens Council is extremely
well managed and is acknowledged
for its financial prudence. In the
Annual Report for 2014-15, Bruce
MacKenzie, the Mayor of Port
Stephens, elaborated on this point,
“Council’s financial performance
continues to be outstanding with this
year’s result achieved in spite of the
financial burden placed upon us by
the April storms (in 2015).
“When you consider what has been
achieved after being $13 million in
debt only a few years ago, it is a point
of major satisfaction.
“This is a high performing and
financially sustainable organisation
which has achieved all this while still
having the lowest residential rate in
the lower Hunter, with no increases
required over the rate peg. It is a result
that many of our neighbours envy.”
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