A gleaming Gosford

Good management, it is said, comprises 90% thinking and 10% doing. That’s ok if you have sufficient staff to do the 90% when you are busy thinking the 10%! Another example of good management is anticipating problems before arriving thus putting plans into place to overcome or eliminate those same problems before a crisis hits you square between the eyes.

Which strangely enough leads us to Gosford.  

There is an initiative set in place to occur on the 27^th September. By this date spring will certainly have sprung and many businesses will be shaking off the winter blues and considering spring cleaning in their ‘modus operandi’.  

Can anyone remember within the past decade, if not longer, where the good citizens of Gosford got together and decided it is no longer viable to wait for council, or anyone else for that matter, and got busy to clean up the place? You know a bit of paint here, a scrubbed wall there sort of thing. Amazingly the collective, isn’t that a communist term, are getting together through the lead of the GBID to get some action going.

This is particularly encouraging when people owning or running a business actually feel they want to be part of a collective and help each other out. Giving Gosford City a spring clean will surely bring a smile to the faces of people working and visiting the CBD. Of course there will be that small group of proverbial Gosford knockers out there.

I for one can’t wait to grab a shot of Deborah Lowndes scrubbing the steps of some grubby building in Mann Street with a hairnet on; or Deborah Warwick polishing the benches at the bus stop outside the Imperial Shopping Centre in her apron!  

Of the clean up Deborah Lowndes said, ““This is a stimulating initiative that will see teams of people cleaning, painting, removing graffiti, and planting to beautify the streets of the city”. “Expressions of interest are currently being sought for volunteers to help, and we welcome members of the community who can spare their time to assist the GBID revitalise Gosford City”.

Now tell me, who would you really like to see volunteering with a bucket and mop in hand? What job would you give Chris Holstein or mayor Jim Macfadyen?  Even better, what would you like to see happen to that ‘wonder building’ gracing the south side corner of Donnison and Mann Street?

Just to get you started we might ask member for Robertson, Belinda Neal, to clean the windows of an office opposite hers. You know the one, it still has a sign with Chris Hartcher on it. Isn’t he now in Terrigal? How about the Green s councillor, Terri Latella, we could get her to pull up some weeds!! Craig Doyle might like to fill up a few of the pot holes that sink falcons around our roads. Get grunting.