[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nother senior manager has joined the revolving door at Campbelltown City Council.
Lisa Miscamble, the director of City Lifestyles tendered her resignation this morning.
She joins director of City Delivery Wayne Rylands who resigned and Mick Sewell, the director of City Governance, who announced he is retiring.
Rylands has already left, but veteran Sewell will be there until later his year.
Ms Miscamble, who has been the driving force behind the council’s bid for an A-League licence, has accepted an offer to become General Manager at Hunters Hill Council.
According to our sources she was seen as a potential successor to Campbelltown GM Lindy Deitz, but she has only been in the job for three years.
There’s speculation another potential future GM, Jeff Lawrence, director of City Growth and Economy, may be the next one to enter the revolving door at the end of this year.
But in the meantime the big challenge will be how to replace all the A-League bid corporate memory Ms Miscamble will take with her when she leaves on August 29.
Incidentally, the final submissions by the shortlisted bids have to be in by tomorrow.
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And while on the council, it has been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants in the past year or so, some of it on things that could turn out to be a giant waste of money, such as Re-imagining Campbelltown.
But at last night’s meeting the eight Labor councillors blocked a request for a report by Cr Warren Morrison on the historic Vardy Estate silos a Menangle Park, which would have cost just a few thousands dollars.
With massive housing development approaching, Cr Morrison wants to make sure the history of the site is maintained for future generations.
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The Campbelltown community has helped raise more than $41,000 to support a refuge in Campbelltown for women and children escaping domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and homelessness.
More than 180 people turned out for the mayor’s charity gala dinner held at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Money raised by the gala dinner will be used to create a welcoming and safe play space for children and a comfortable study area for teenagers.
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Not sure if it’s standard procedure this days, but a local family who lost their house in a fire earlier this month were advised by police to keep an eye out for looters in the next few days after the tragedy.
Neighbours were asked to park their cars in front of the house as a precaution.
The question is: have things got that bad in our country?
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Our local cricket club, Campbelltown Camden Ghosts, were excited and couldn’t wait to share the news that someone who played for them last summer had hit the big time.
Englishman Ollie Pope, a wicketkeeper batsman, was selected in the England Test side that defeated India at Lords.
Young Ollie made 28 runs in his debut, batting at number four, same position as with the Ghosts, where he amassed 994 runs in Sydney Premier Cricket.
We were fortunate here at the Voice to have interviewed Ollie and he came across as a polite and humble young man.
And, it has to be said, several times we looked at the crystal ball and it showed Pope playing for England, who will be hosting the Aussies in another epic Ashes battle in 12 months.
In the meantime, though, well done, Ollie and the mighty Ghosts.
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Let’s finish on a sporting theme, a reminder that old rugby league enemy Manly will make a rare appearance at Campbelltown, when they play the Wests Tigers there on Thursday, August 22 in the penultimate round of the NRL premiership.
No doubt there will be a lot of old Magpies jumpers around the ground for that one.
