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The Whitsunday Regional Council has met for the final time for 2020, capping off a big year in motions brought before councillors.
Here’s what you may have missed.
Mayoral minute after meeting
The Whitsunday Regional Council supported Mayor Andrew Willcox’s ability to debate and vote on the Flagstaff Hill redevelopment after it was revealed he met with prospective proponents.
In a mayoral minute tabled at the final council meeting of the year, Cr Willcox said he and council chief executive Rod Ferguson met with representatives of WHF Group at the Austral Hotel in Mackay on October 15 this year.
 This brings to an end a long history of aged care, voluntary aged care in Collinsville, Cr Brunker said. I know when it first closed there was a huge panic in Collinsville and the council came to the fore to try and fill that gap. The best we could do was independent living and unfortunately as people are in all communities, elderly people, they are proudly independent. It was getting to a situation where they only wanted to move when they couldn t live in their own house and unfortunately they would be bypassing this facility and going straight to the aged care at Collinsville Hospital or down to Bowen.