The following two screen dumps have been taken from the agenda items for next Tuesday night’s council meeting. They are part of the minutes for the Recreation Advisory Committee meeting.
Several things need pointing out:
- Why has it taken 5 months for these minutes to make it into the public domain? This is becoming par for the course when we also have councillor requests for report(s) that have on occasion taken over a year to appear!
- Who is really running the show here? Our councilors or unelected officialdom? The screen dumps provide an interesting insight!
Glen Eira Debates 
July 19, 2019 at 3:10 PM
Tone of first one is awful and second one is looking to find excuses. Councillors must have copped heaps over closing the park just before xmas.
July 21, 2019 at 7:57 AM
Council staff, other than the CEO, don’t work for us as ex-Cr Lipshutz delighted in reminding us periodically. The CEO is responsible for the written record of an assembly of councillors [however called], including the matters considered. It is left deliberately unspecified what constitutes a “matter”, and IIRC Local Government Inspectorate has in the past provided advice that Minutes should contain the barest minimum of information, seemingly at odds with general principles of transparency and accountability. The Act specifies the Minutes should be reported “as soon as practicable”, and I doubt 5 months satisfies that requirement.
July 21, 2019 at 10:37 AM
Yes of course you wouldn’t want to complicate the minutes with the truth or anything else that would get in the way of any future duplicitous actions. As we have seen time and time the CEO and bureaucrats don’t let anything thing through (MODERATORS: phrase deleted).
August 13, 2019 at 2:12 PM
The answer might be in here.
Ms McKenzie’s internal update 28/6/19
This week @ Executive
This week at our regular Tuesday Executive team meeting, we discussed:
* “Potential improvements to our ways of communicating with our Councillors, to ensure they are only receiving information that is relevant and timely. We need to find a balance of ensuring they are fully informed for resident queries and Council decision-making, while not overloading them.”