	{"id":42921,"date":"2020-10-01T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/?p=42921"},"modified":"2020-10-06T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:35:01","slug":"mckiterick-shire-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/news\/mckiterick-shire-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"McKiterick suggests rethink on advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE next Surf Coast Shire council should take a serious look at the projects it is advocating, according to outgoing councillor Brian McKiterick.<br \/>\nThe council confirmed its list of advocacy priorities at its September 15 meeting.<br \/>\nDuring debate on the motion, Cr McKiterick said not everything on the list should necessarily stay there, particularly anything that was &#8220;floundering&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe used <a href=\"https:\/\/cora.net.au\/\">CORA<\/a> &#8211; the $350 million elite sport centre and tourist destination proposed to be built near Modewarre &#8211; as an example.<br \/>\n&#8220;When you look through it, a lot of these items have been on our books for several elections, particularly when you look at the Thompson Valley feasibility study, the aquatic centre, even CORA.<br \/>\n\u201cSome of them, like CORA, seem to have floundered a bit, and we need to reignite them, or cut them loose.<br \/>\n&#8220;Initially I was thinking of putting in a procedural motion that this be deferred until the next council, but I think they\u2019ll have that ability, and this will be a document they can look at and then reflect and then see if there\u2019s a need for change. Possibly councillors here now will be able to guide them and support that.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe acknowledged it was only a year until the federal election and two years until the state election so the council obviously needed a framework when lobbying for funding.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m aware that other councils don\u2019t actually do this, so at least we\u2019ve got a platform, we\u2019ve got our own roadmap that hopefully gets us through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE next Surf Coast Shire council should take a serious look at the projects it is advocating, according to outgoing councillor Brian McKiterick. The council confirmed its list of advocacy priorities at its September 15 meeting. 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