Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is set to enter negotiations with the Wauchope RSL over an issue that goes back decades.
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At the Wednesday, February 19 meeting councillors voted in favour for the general manager to bring a report to the March 2020 meeting, to update council on the history of the Bransdon Street, Wauchope car park issue.
The report would include a settlement proposal to pay to the Wauchope RSL Club Ltd the sum of $125,000 plus interest.
At the meeting, Wauchope RSL vice president Malcolm Butler addressed councillors.
Mr Butler has been part of the club for the last 29 years. He spoke to the councillors about the history of parking at Wauchope and how the RSL played an integral role in establishing off street car parking in the town.
The meeting heard Wauchope RSL Club repaid council's loan to purchase the Bransdon Street carpark site in 1967.
The issue of car parking arose out of the Wauchope RSL's planned seniors housing development.
At the February 2019 council meeting anomalies were found in car parking requirements between the Wauchope development and a Port Macquarie CBD development.
Cr Levido addressed the February 2020 meeting and said it's time to tie up loose ends.
He questioned why council can't find the money for the RSL, when it's what the organisation owes them and what they agreed to owe in 2008.
Cr Levido urged members of the RSL to get in touch with general manager Craig Swift McNair if they had an issue with what councillors proposed at the meeting.
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