Not much ado about nothing

If this blogger and others hadn’t got stuck into the Council for doing a backflip on its previous decision to preserve and restore Zinneckar’s House, what would they have to show for the past six months?

Not much more than a few street name changes and some financial housekeeping.

They should thank us for making it look like they actually had an issue to deal with.

At the most recent Council meeting on April 24, things were settling down and back to normal.

First, there was question time and a few curly questions to deal with from myself, William Moyes and Bert Reynolds.

Then there were some decisions to make: allow a lunch to be held on a bridge?, endorse a couple of nominations for committees?,  accept the monthly financial statements?,  allow a variation on the some funds for road projects? and rubber stamp some resolutions from the standing committee.

Needless to say, they all got the nod, with every councillor voting in favour of every recommendation from the officers without a word of discussion or (heaven forbid) dissent.  Nothing more strenuous for the councillors than some page-turning and hand-raising.

It was all over in under an hour and would have taken less than half an hour, but for those pesky questions.

They all then adjourned to the room next door for catered meal and free drinks on the ratepayers.

I want to know…  WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE???  WHERE ARE THEIR IDEAS, THEIR PLANS TO TAKE THIS COMMUNITY FORWARD??

We ratepayers are paying each of them around $290 per meeting and are getting no ideas, no vision, no scrutiny.

Most of the current councillors have not moved a single motion of their own this year.  Some have never done it! As outlined above they go through entire meetings without uttering a single word!

Surely, we deserve better. That is what this blog is about. 

Please vote for change at the current by-election and the normal election later this year.

(Electing past-president Brian Moore’s wife Joanne Moore or nasty former councillor Stephanie Devanay’s husband Peter Quinby is likely to ensure nothing more than continued robotic endorsements of Council officers’ recommendations.)