The managerial manoeuvrings that are being revealed at LCC via Mary Machen’s article on Saturday January 21 is concerning. And it’s especially so when it’s relative to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery’s governance and management.
When Launceston’s ratepayers are conscripted to pay up for the quite significant recurrent cost of the QVMAG, and apparently their representatives are receiving “filtered information”, they might well ask, “what the hell is going on here.”
In the end it comes down to accountability and it appears as if the Aldermen’s ability to be answerable for their decision-making is seemingly being compromised by the General Manager’s Machiavellian interventions.
The possible rationale for all this is more than mystifying, and quite bewildering, unless you attribute it to the maintenance of the status quo. But why?
In the life of the last council Launceston’s ratepayers invested something in the order of $12 million and before that many many millions more.
Clearly it is time that LCC Aldermen started to hold management truly accountable for operational outcomes. However, before that they need to be proactive in policy determination rather than deferring that role to management at ever turn.
The QVMAG has far too much to offer the community for it to become merely a component of some expensive bureaucratic empire building exercise.
Ray Norman
Trevallyn
Not Published in The Examiner
1 comment:
The recent kerfuffle over the Lalla chicken shed and the absurd amount of time consumed by it at the Council meeting, demonstrate that the operational arm of the Council is failing to make clear decisions or acting in ways that are acceptable to either the community or the aldermen.
The way that Councils time is being wasted and the public unsatisfied with the General Manager's performance and the evident inadequacy of the planning decisions are both indicative of a Council that simply isn't being governed effectively.
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