The campaign to have funds to preserve Davistown’s Wetlands in a 10 year implementation plan

DPA Wetlands Sub Committee successfully worked with Councils Natural Assets and Coast and Estuaries teams to achieve a ten year plan using the $1.436 million interest annually on a priority plan.

DPA Wetlands Team led by Convenor Jenny McCulla ( Shena Milne, Margaret & Noel Sheridan. Trish Bourke, Phil Pulbrook, and formerly Ann Barnes,Pat Aiken and Johnny Row) provided photographic evidence of the damage to the wetlands and a priority list of which council/ publicly owned wetlands need action such as ridding the wetlands with non native species.

The team spoke to Mayor Lawrie McKinna, and all East Ward and other Central Coasr councillors to gain support for this action.

We thank councillors who spoke in support of this and who unanimously voted for the ten year plan of action.

By using the interest the fund will continue well into the future, with the original allocated figure kept intact, and only the annual interest spent on the repairs, rubbish and weed removal.

Thank you all; for signing this - and three other paper petitions (totalling over 1500, a thousand 700 and this petition) over the past five years.

Jenny McCulla ,Convenor, DPA Wetlands Sub Committee.

First petition read - 

HANDS OFF - THE DAVO WETLANDS MONEY!

Please sign to;
Help us to save Davistown Wetlands! 
And the Wetlands Reserve funds.

‘Cash strapped’ Central Coast Council wants to transfer the special Davistown Wetlands funds to a Coast Conservation Fund. 

Tell Council it’s not on!

Despite two petitions signed by thousands of local residents a report on the Central  Coast Council’s agenda for TONIGHT Tuesday 22 November says councils ‘preferred recommendation’ is to transfer the long held funds to ‘a Coastal Coast Conservation Fund’ -  

Those Davistown Wetlands funds (of $1.43-4 Million comprises of funds accumulated in-part from land sales in Magnolia Ave. Davistown, plus councils annually pledged $50,000 & interest).

Council - we the undersigned strongly disagree with this option;

We urge our representative in council the administrator to immediately negotiate to buy back some of the Davistown Wetland parcels - bringing them into public ownership again.

We want you to agree - that the funds (specifically set aside by Gosford City Council years ago are spent in Davistown)  to acquire wetlands - based on council’s original resolution, to preserve the Davistown Wetlands; for the vitally important environmental as well as the flood retention protection benefits they provide to your local ratepayers.