Coolum Advertiser, 20 February 2020. Division 9 candidate Maria Suarez says that Council’s $50.4M Solar Farm, located at Valdora in the heart of Division 9, has not been completed as was promised to the community and that an environmental buffer of some 36,000 trees is yet to be completed. “When council launched the new facility in 2017, they said that

Coolum Advertiser, 23 January 2020. Ken Dredge, Coolum Beach Dear editor, Division 9 – all important to Coolum, now has three candidates for the position of councillor. All three appear quite different so the choice for voters may not be easy. Councillors have to contribute to direction and governance of the council. Keeping the staff under control is a challenge,

Division 9 Candidate Maria Suarez has called on retiring Councillor Steve Robinson to step up and take action over the development application currently being assessed by Council at the former ANZ bank site in Coolum. “The development application seeks to increase the building area from 238sqm to 328sqm by adding a partial second floor” said Suarez. “That’s an increase in

MEET THE CANDIDATES The Green, Issue 332. Jan/Feb 2020 ADDITIONAL INFO: Previous career: Yes Air Force for 11 years, and after that, Marketing Manager and consultant. Where do you live: The Sunshine Coast Council portion of Peregian Beach. I live within Division 9.

Coolum Advertiser, 23 November 2019. Vanessa Bacon-Hall COMMUNITY groups and local residents are concerned the consultation period for the proposed surf ranch ear marked for a parcel of ex cane land adjacent to the Sunshine Motorway in Coolum, has not been thorough enough and the local community have been left in the dark as to the details and scale of

Coolum Advertiser, 10 October 2019. THROUGH her previous role as President of Flight Path Forum and the associated research into the actions undertaken by council with the Sunshine Coast Airport Project, Ms Suarez believes there are changes that need to take place to create a better Sunshine Coast and she will be running as a candidate in the upcoming local

Call for transparency on decisions Sunshine Coast Daily, 09 October 2019. Bill Hoffman A LEADING campaigner for changes to flight paths proposed for the new Sunshine Coast Airport runway has announced she will contest local government elections in March next year on a platform of greater transparency in decision making. Maria Suarez (pictured) has stepped down from her role as