A rescission motion is the mechanism by which councillors revisit a decision already carried. Having two of them on one agenda, both aimed at the meeting four weeks earlier, is worth noticing regardless of how either is resolved.
The two are listed as 3.1 Recission Motion - Rescind Item 3.1 - Authority Delegation - Standing Committees and 3.2 Recission Motion - Rescind Item 6.1 Gosford Coming Alive 2040 - for endorsement. (The agenda spells it "Recission" in both.)
The first has a companion further down the same agenda: item 7.2 Delegated Authority to Standing Committees - Updated Terms of Reference for Adoption. So the question of what the standing committees may decide without the full council appears twice on Tuesday, once as an attempt to undo the earlier resolution and once as a fresh set of terms of reference put up for adoption.
What is on the agenda, by section
| Section | Items |
|---|---|
| 1 Procedural Items | 7 |
| 2 Mayoral Minutes | 1 |
| 3 Rescission Motions | 2 |
| 4 Deferred Items | 5 |
| 5 Financial Items | 2 |
| 6 Standing Committee Reports and Recommendations | 4 |
| 7 Reports | 12 |
| 8 Notices of Motion | 4 |
| 9 Questions | 4 |
Five notices of motion have been deferred
Section 4 carries five items, every one of them a notice of motion held over rather than dealt with: an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance Framework, a motion on improving the accessibility of council’s monthly performance reporting, one on the Local Strategic Planning Statement, one on a Tech One systems report, and one on gambling harm minimisation on the Central Coast.
The gambling-harm motion has been on the agenda before: it appeared on the 28 July meeting papers. Deferral is ordinary council business and is not evidence of anything by itself, but a section that consists entirely of held-over motions is a fair thing for a resident to know about before a meeting rather than after.
In the reports, and the notices
Among the twelve reports, item 7.1 Health Infrastructure - NSW Ambulance Projects Berkeley Vale - Sale of Land concerns land the council would sell for an ambulance project. Others include a draft Central Coast Youth Strategy 2026-2031 put up for adoption, an air-conditioning replacement at The Art House auditorium seeking funding, councillor expenses and facilities for 2025-26, and a response for submission on a Local Government Asset Valuation Discussion Paper.
Of the four notices of motion, one is directly relevant to a matter this masthead has tracked: 8.4 Notice of Motion - Appeal - Horton Coastal Engineering Pty Ltd v Central Coast Council. Our record page on Wamberal Beach erosion follows the coastal-protection dispute that engineering work at Wamberal sits inside. Another, 8.3 Notice of Motion - Safety at Woy Woy South Public, concerns a school.
What we can and cannot tell you
This is the agenda’s structure, not its arguments. The council’s business-paper platform publishes item titles, numbering and attachment titles in a form we can read directly, and serves the report bodies only inside a PDF viewer we cannot extract text from. So we can tell you what is listed, in what order, with how many attachments. We cannot yet tell you what any report recommends, and we have not guessed.
The agenda document itself is about 2.4 MB and was created on the platform on Friday 21 August, four days before the meeting. Meetings are livestreamed, and the minutes will not be available immediately: the council confirms minutes at the following Ordinary meeting, which is 22 September.
How we did this
The item list, section numbering, attachment counts, document size and creation timestamp come from the council’s own business-paper API, read on 23 August 2026, which returns the agenda’s structure as data. Section and item counts in the table were counted programmatically from that response rather than read off a page, and the total of 41 substantive items excludes the front page, meeting information, table of contents and meeting closure.
One figure we checked rather than trusted. The API reports the meeting time as 08:30. The council’s own meetings page lists Tuesday 25 August 2026 at 6.30pm at the Central Coast Chambers, and states that Ordinary meetings are generally held at 6.30pm on the fourth Tuesday. We have used the council’s published schedule, and anyone reading that API field should not take the time from it.
We have not read the report bodies, for the reason given above, and nothing here characterises what any councillor or officer has recommended or will say. We have not contacted the council. Item titles are quoted as the agenda spells them, including "Recission".
Sources
- Central Coast Council business papers, Agendas, Business Papers and Minutes, Ordinary Council Meeting agenda for 25 August 2026 (document f16f12f1-a55a-4ab8-907a-0727d6234177, read via the platform's API 23 August 2026): every item title and number, the section structure and counts, attachment counts, the 2.4 MB document size and the 21 August creation timestamp.
- Central Coast Council, Council meetings (read 23 August 2026): that the Ordinary Council Meeting is Tuesday 25 August 2026 at 6.30pm at the Central Coast Chambers, 2 Hely Street Wyong; that Ordinary meetings are generally 6.30pm on the fourth Tuesday under the Code of Meeting Practice adopted 9 December 2025; that meetings are livestreamed; and the 22 September 2026 Ordinary meeting date.
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