Pathway going in council about-face

By Margaret Maccoll

The Park Road temporary pathway will now be removed after Noosa Council backflipped on its earlier decision to retain it.

It came down to a casting vote from the chair at Council’s Ordinary Meeting last Thursday that led to the final decision after the vote was three in favour, three against.

What changed the decision was a change of chair with Mayor Clare Stewart casting the deciding vote for its removal.

There was again robust decision as there had been previously at Council’s General Meeting chaired by deputy mayor Frank Wilkie who had cast the deciding vote to retain it.

The argument last Thursday focused on Council honouring a promise it had made to one resident that the temporary pathway…