Blayney Shire's Sports Council is up and running with more than 15 members, but there are concerns it may lack "teeth" in advocating for sports groups.
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Last Thursday they held their second meeting with a full agenda to survey facilities as well as set up web, Facebook and twitter accounts. The sports council will meet five times a year.
Sports council chair Councillor David Kingham said: "The sports council is a communication vehicle for each sport to understand the needs of each other and to combine to make the best use of the sporting facility that are available in the shire.
"Everyone would like better playing experiences and it's the role of the sports council to recommend to Blayney council what's needed to meet those future expectations.
"Among those already suggested is a smoother playing surface on number one soccer field at the showground, permanent toilet facilities at both Dakers Oval and Napier Oval and a lockable storage area for each sport using King George Oval."
The council is also looking at holding a sportsman's/sportswomen's dinner with a high profile guest speaker at the Blayney Shire Community Centre later this year.
However, while proposed Napier Oval toilets did make the agenda for Blayney council's Monday night meeting, what ensued was further delays before works begin. Junior soccer and cricket teams train at the oval and players have nowhere to change or use a toilet.
Council rejected a staff recommendation to build two unisex toilets and a storage room for $8000 at the site, instead resolving for staff to make "further investigations into costings" to build a brick toilet block such as on the north side of Blayney showgrounds.
Blayney mayor Scott Ferguson said while the sports council could make recommendations, their wishes for Napier Oval needed to balanced with the "priorities of the rest of the community".
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