Council maintains all workers at its mass transit information booths are employees and impartial despite a man with links to the state transport department having been spotted at several locations. A Mooloolaba woman told organisers of The Beach Matters group, which is fighting the prospect of a light rail system along the beachfront at Alexandra Headland and Maroochydore, and at least one councillor that she had spotted a former transport department staffer at consultation sessions in Kawana and Mooloolaba earlier this month. The man she identified was Dan Koch, a former Department of Transport and Main Roads project manager and former CoastConnect project director based in Maroochydore.