October 19, 2015
How Can This Happen?
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Governance, GE Planning, GE Service Performance[5] Comments
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October 19, 2015 at 4:20 PM
I daresay it can happen if there is jobs for the boys.
October 19, 2015 at 9:24 PM
How the hell can there be such gaps between councils even accepting size and population differences? The tender process is a joke and so is the claim that industry rates are being applied.
October 19, 2015 at 10:41 PM
Like rust, the bagmen never sleep
October 20, 2015 at 6:46 AM
Come on GE Debates, give credit where credit is due – look at all the money Council saves on Community Consultation
October 20, 2015 at 5:37 PM
The Transparency indicator is particularly egregious. I suspect the numbers themselves are mostly guesswork [or bogus since councils are free to submit whatever they like to DELWP and there are no standard definitions and no auditing of the numbers supplied]. But if they are an accurate reflection, then it shows how GECC uses secrecy provisions wherever possible rather than in accordance with the spirit of the legislation. LGA only specifies that a meeting CAN [not should] be closed to the public under a huge range of ill-defined circumstances. Council doesn’t even bother providing reasons, just quotes from the smorgasbord of available grounds.
A second aspect that is even more insidious is that most decisions are made by officers under delegated authority. There is no mechanism that ensures transparency for decisions made under delegated authority, and no accountability. Ask a public question and Council offloads it to the administration, who respond with a big FU. It should be a straightforward matter of providing the evidence that underpins a statement or decision, but nope, the first instinct is to deny deny deny.