There’s a delicious irony in the fact that Glen Eira Council is no longer a member of the Victorian Local Governance Association – especially in light of the Municipal Inspector’s findings of ‘problems’ with governance!!!!
This must be the shortest membership record of any Council in the state – just on one year! Again, we have to ask some hard questions:
- When was it decided to quit?
- Who decided – since there’s been no discussion tabled at Council Meetings?
- Why has there never been any report on councillor’s attendance(s), meetings with VLGA?
- Don’t councillors believe that an organisation devoted to ‘good governance’ practices has anything to offer a council that has been investigated three times in just over a decade?
- It is most comforting to know that Glen Eira once again remains the ‘odd man out’!!!
Glen Eira Debates 
September 16, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Hey, I know why they quit. It’s cos of the following from the VLGA website which lies outside ge’s priorities.
Community engagement can be defined as ‘providing opportunities for people who are affected by or interested in a Council decision to participate in the decision making process in order to enhance the resulting decision, plan or project’. The key benefit of community engagement is to improve and enhance outcomes through more informed decisions.
It is about sharing information and involving the community and key stakeholders in the decision making process. It includes the implicit commitment that the community’s contribution will influence the decision.
Well I certainly didn’t get a say on this piking out.
September 17, 2010 at 9:07 AM
They should never have joined in the first place. Glen Eira belongs to the MAV and that is a much larger and stronger Representative Group. Having said that your questions stand.