Last night's final meeting of Port Stephens Council before the September elections has ended only minutes after it started with two councillors storming out in disgust.
Councillors were handed a massive agenda of more than 900 pages to deal with before council goes into caretaker mode.
Councillors Geoff Dingle and Peter Kafer stormed out just 5 minutes into the meeting after a motion to deal with only essential items was defeated.
Geoff Dingle said the agenda was more than twice the size of any other council paper he had seen, leaving a lack of opportunity for consideration of decisions made.
With three other councillors absent, the meeting lacked a quorum and had to be abandoned.
However, Mayor Bruce MacKenzie believes there will be enough councillors available to reconvene the abandoned meeting next week.
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| Port Stephens Mayor Bruce MacKenzie |
