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Issue 239 | Thursday, 1 December 2016
Real Estate Lifestyle Noosa’s Wee
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Connor Lyons at Little Cove last Wednesday. Picture courtesy: Tito Media
Surf’s up! The day the waves came. The long wait was over for surfers last week when the Noosa points came alive with swell from dawn ’till dusk for three days straight. For more, turn to sport.
Hall anger boils over By Jolene Ogle
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EMOTIONS ran high at the Cooroy Hall community meeting on Saturday (26 November), with council told to “get off their arses” and fix the hall. Council called the meeting to discuss what will happen to the Cooroy Memorial Hall, which the Cooroy RSL closed a year ago due to safety concerns. Council is currently in the process of taking on the trusteeship of the
hall from the Cooroy RSL and despite council not yet having official responsibility of the hall, it was clear some residents wanted answers and action right now. Angry residents slammed council for an apparent lack of action, accused them of fearmongering and scoffed when Mayor Tony Wellington said there were no pre-determined plans to tear down the memorial building. Community member Fred Broomhall said council needed to take the issue “by the horns, do the
right thing, open the hall, and stop all this waffling”. “Shame on you, Noosa Council,” he said. Community services director Alan “Fox” Rogers chaired the meeting and copped the brunt of the criticism but said council wanted to find out from the community what they wanted to happen with the hall. In his presentation, Mr Rogers said the repair bill for the hall could be $1 million and listed asbestos removal, termite damage and an unsafe roof as some of the major safety and repair
concerns for the historic building. Mayor Tony Wellington responded to the angry residents’ calls for action from council. “We can’t allocate ratepayer money for a building over which we have no control,” he said. “We simply do not have the authority to do that. Up until now, the authority and control of the building has been with the (Cooroy) RSL and we have been working both the RSL and the State Government to try and get to this point. “It has been a struggle. But staff
have been working hard over the past 12 months to get to this point.” Councillor Wellington said council had not been “sitting on their hands” and had been working with the RSL who had “changed their position a number of times throughout the process”. “Council has now finally reached the point where we have an agreement with the RSL that both of us can live with which means that now, we can move forward and council is doing its best to work with you all,” he said. Continued on Page 4
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