If I think back to what I said at the beginning of the term for my role on the new Northern Beaches Council.  My first term was all about building the foundation. Here we were at a point, which Councillor Bingham so rightly referred to, where we had to go back to base on everything, we had to reimagine every piece of framework, every policy, it was relentless, four years worth of relentlessness actually. And it was a real challenge. And you kind of sat there and thought, "Is this what I'm really here for?" because you want to do things. But we couldn't build anything with council if we didn't have a solid foundation. 

So, four years of hard work of trying to agree on what that foundation should look like and then we had last term where finally pieces of action were starting to happen. But of course we had COVID and we've had all kinds of interesting issues along the way and I now look at this term coming up as an absolute opportunity, an exciting opportunity because now the foundations are there. You have just heard from these brilliant Councillors, each with their different skill sets, each so excited to make a difference, each representing their part of the community that obviously have enough trust in them to vote them in. So this is going to be a really exciting term. 

I am looking forward to really making a difference, whether it's the wisdom of Bob and how it feels for you coming all these years later back into it, whether it's the freshness of Rowie and of course we keep hearing very frequently about our two young youngest Councillors who are dying there of embarrassment at the moment. But I mean, what Deputy Mayor just said then is absolutely true we've worked on a youth strategy and there's a point in council where you wonder whether we've just ticked another box. And even though we've brought up, certainly in briefings, over and over again about have the youth been involved in this, now we definitely will be having the youth voice involved, it's very exciting. It's an exciting group to work with and I think we should look forward to a very exciting four years together. I just want us to work together collaboratively as a team and make sure that each of you just do the best to your ability to be the best Councillor you actually can be for your community. 

Our community, I think is extraordinary. I've always believed in them. I've seen them at their lowest and at their highest. My background comes from various ways into our community. Even today, I will admit that I was at a support group for Parkinson's where I happened to look over and of course there's another support group for another particular charity happening close by. And we're all looking at each other and laughing because if you've been in the community as long as some of us have been, you recognise those faces over and over again. The Northern Beaches is really unique we have one of the highest rates of volunteerism in New South Wales here, and it doesn't surprise me why. If we can't give financially, we give with what we have. This place has an extraordinary heart. Yes, people make fun about the Insular Peninsula. We make fun of ourselves about being the Insular Peninsula, but this community is absolutely extraordinary in how much it wants to give. And now we want to have a council that absolutely supports in that way, in every way possible to make the Northern Beaches the best place to live. Thank you very much.