NOTE: This kind of letter usually gets lost in the melee and fobbed off as a 3rd rate issue. When an aldermen speaks out during a Council budget preparation time it might tell us something about what is going on in camera.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Examiner "Reduction of staff"
"WITH the upheaval of the Glenorchy Council front and centre, the general manager is pressing ahead with the reduction of senior management roles.
l would simply ask this question, what is Launceston doing to reduce the $4.3 million operational deficit of our council?
The first thing any sizeable business, and Launceston City Council is one, with a turnover of $100 million and a gaping wound in the bottom line, should do is look at staffing levels to reduce that repetitive debt level.
"Form and function" reviews have a purpose but they will not achieve the end result and that is to bring this council back into the black, just as Glenorchy are trying to achieve.
With the Mayor and Ald McKenzie being two very experienced accountants, l would like to hear from them and see what methodology they would embark upon to fix this problem.
It is without doubt the elephant in the room, but no one is prepared to recognise the problem and confront the issue. l have raised this issue many times but the response has been deafening.
— TED SANDS, Launceston City Council alderman."
Launceston's council's operational wing has been empire building for a very long time, years and years, and maybe this is the time where the chooks come home to roost and time for the rooster get his wings clipped.
A great deal of a council's services could be sensibly outsourced. But getting the empire builders to curb their power lust, well that's going to be resisted. It is a lot to ask of the self interested.
Launceston has the most expensive rates in Tasmania and in large part that is down to the conga line of empire builders our silly aldermen have employed and allowed to be employed. Time for all aldermen to get on the job and hold, really hold, the operational wing of council to account.
However, aldermen, let us not throw the baby out with the bath water in the flurry to be accountable.
YES PLEASE, LET US HEAR MORE FROM MORE ALDERMEN!
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