Council publication misleading

Q;When is awarding a tender not awarding a tender? 
A; When the Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire is trying to cover up its incompetence.

No tender has been awarded, so I wonder who is responsible for approving publication of this lie.  I would assume it had to be signed off by CEO Tim Clynch.

A couple of days after the release of the Council's "Insight", this report appears in the local paper...

This report correctly says the Council has identified its "preferred tenderer", but is yet to award a tender.  It also says the Council is looking at "community fundraising" to help pay for the pool.

If you read between the lines, you realise that Council's $4million budget for the new pool is inadequate.  The idea of community fundraising for Council infrastructure is, in my view, ludicrous.  Council already does compulsary community fundraising via its Rates.

Our Council spends most of the money compulsorily acquired from ratepayers on fat salaries and generous conditions for an inordinate number of employees.  Then when it doesn't have enough money to pay for its grandiose projects, it wants us to chip in (again).

Bridgetown families just want a place to swim on a hot day.  The hole in the ground where the pool used to be is a monument to poor decision-making and bureaucratic bungling.

Once again, the "Insight" magazine is providing very little insight.

Pratico misses the point, again

He's been at it again...

If you know Shire President Tony Pratico you know he likes to influence people behind the scenes, whispering half-truths and rumours on street corners and taking pot-shots at people from behind the screen of "you didn't hear this from me..."

He's quoted in today's Manjimup paper, sympathetic over the demise of the Green Door, which has occurred because after more than a year of illegal operation, it has closed because the Council finally got around to asking them to conform to building and health by-laws. "We had a complaint," he explained.

He knows the complaint was made by me.  He wants people to ask, "Who complained?" so he can mumble my name into their ear.

Once again, Pratico has missed the point because he always plays the man and not the ball.
I shouldn't have had to complain. I waited more than a year for the authorities to do something before I did.

Pratico, his fellow councillors and the Council were aware there was a new entertainment venue open in town and it was obviously in a place which was not properly set up as a public venue.

The question is, why do they enforce the rules for some, and not others?