Manning Valley residents urged to focus on finding candidates for the 2017 MidCoast Council election

By Ainslee Dennis
Updated May 23 2017 - 3:26pm, first published May 18 2017 - 5:00pm
CANDIDATE CALL: Maurie Stack is urging people to consider standing for election to MidCoast Council and says "it certainly enriches your life, you get the satisfaction of performing a role which is really vital to the local community. Photo: Ainslee Dennis.
CANDIDATE CALL: Maurie Stack is urging people to consider standing for election to MidCoast Council and says "it certainly enriches your life, you get the satisfaction of performing a role which is really vital to the local community. Photo: Ainslee Dennis.

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The MidCoast Council Local Representative Committee will be dissolved on June 30.

Councillors must replace the controversial committee and the search is on for people to stand for election in September.

Respected businessman Maurie Stack describes the first election after local government amalgamation as “critical”.

This is his clarion call to our community ...

Mr Stack speaks from the experience of one who served our community for seven years after the 1981 amalgamation that created Greater Taree City Council. So many decisions had to be made to shape the culture, function and direction of the new local government authority in the Manning Valley, and it was the task of elected councillors - local people from all walks of life - to try to best express community aspirations for the region.

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