In any good organisation, heads would roll

Finally, we get an admission, four days out from the scheduled opening of the swimming pool season, that for the second year in a row we will not have a public pool for summer...


Now they blame the site and the Health Department for the delays.  It is always someone or something else.  But they are not going to fool those of us who remember that the site sat empty and idle all last summer while the Council and its staff bungled the tender process. Work on the new pool only began after summer, yet the old pool was dug up nine months earlier.

It is interesting that new Shire President John Nicholas has his name on this release.  Perhaps he has put his foot down in the first few days of holding office and insisted on a bit of actual accountability and communication.

It seems his election ''out of  a hat" over incumbent Tony Pratico after a drawn vote went down like a lead balloon.  There was no announcement or media release announcing his appointment, and the Council website still lists Pratico as President.