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The Beagle
- Jun 6
$300,000 per year and the Yuin Theatre is yours
As Council gears itself up to open the $71 million Bay Pavilions in early 2022 they face the task of finding someone prepared to manage...
The Beagle
- May 29
Old Bowling Club site: a true landmark opportunity with a "potential" 30m high tower
Above: Council advert found in Financial Review After buying the Old Batemans Bay Bowling Club in 2016 for $2.7 million with the...
The Beagle
- May 21
Are you Council's new Aquatic and Arts Contract Coordinator?
Council is currently calling for tenders for the management and operation of the Batemans Bay Regional Aquatic, Arts and Leisure Centre...
The Beagle
- May 10
Mackay Park Precinct : What's new and what's rumoured
Long before the recent revelations that Council has been holding back financial details around the projected incomes and expenditures of...
The Beagle
- May 2
How much will it cost to go to the new Bay Pool? No-one knows.
In the last Council report our councillors were presented with the Draft Fees and Charges for 2021-2022. Their task was to approve the...
The Beagle
- Apr 28
OPEN LETTER TO ESC’s GENERAL MANAGER : $19 million debt to be funded by ratepayers
Dear Beagle Editor, Your readers may be interested in my latest correspondence with ESC’s General Manager. ----------------------------...
The Beagle
- Apr 20
Making sense of the "Milkshake" video
In an effort to educate Years 10 to 12 on sexual consent a video was made. The video went down like a lead balloon. It was considered...
The Beagle
- Jan 20
Are Council's Audit Committee just parrots offering half informed opinions?
On the 28th of July 2020 the Eurobodalla Councillors were presented with a staff recommendation that: - Council endorses the selection...
The Beagle
- Jan 15
Mackay Park: Should the Audit Committee have scrutinised the FULL business case
It is difficult to forget Clr Constable’s impassioned plea for advice before committing ratepayers to the $19 million cost blow out for...
The Beagle
- Jan 13
Batemans Bay regional aquatic, arts and leisure centre $200,000 public art commission
Closing date: Thursday 4 February 2021, 4.00pm Eurobodalla Council is calling for expressions of interest from professional artists...
The Beagle
- Jan 13
Councillors beginning to panic over Mackay Park blowout and ongoing costs
Councillors beginning to panic over Mackay Park blowout and ongoing costs.This doesn't auger well for them just nine months out from a...
The Beagle
- Jan 9
The more we learn, the less we know about the Mackay Park project
In August 2020, after two weeks of accepting a tender to construct the Mackay Park Pool the Council still had not told the public who the...
The Beagle
- Jan 6
Eurobodalla Council makes National News for all the wrong reasons
In her article of January 5th, 2021 published nationally on the MichaelWest network titled "In too deep: when Gladys’ and John’s rorts go...
The Beagle
- Dec 13, 2020
BBay community to be short-changed horribly doing the NSW Gov’t’s job with the ratepayers money
The Beagle Editor, The layout of the BBCC was thoughtfully designed by Phil Rose a local Narooma architect of long standing and...
The Beagle
- Nov 14, 2020
Did the General Manager breach the Local Government ACT. And who shall decide?
The community are becoming aware of the fact that the General Manager did not advise councillors of material correspondence from the...
The Beagle
- Nov 11, 2020
You be the judge: was critical info withheld from councillors: would it have made a difference
The Short Version: The Council's General Manager has advised today she did not provide councillors with correspondence from the Office...
