The Proposed QVMAG Strategic Directions Committee
Reading the agenda for Launceston Council's next meeting this coming Monday April 27, it seems that Ald. Hugh McKenzie has finally bitten the QVMAG bullet and has put a motion before Council for the formation of a QVMAG Strategic Directions Committee (QVMAG SDC). CLICK HERE TO READ THE MOTION
"The City of Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery" comes at a considerable cost to the city's ratepayers. Consequently, each and every Launcestonian ratepayer and resident has a vested interest in Ald. McKenzie's motion as long term investors and stakeholders in the QVMAG.
"The City of Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery" comes at a considerable cost to the city's ratepayers. Consequently, each and every Launcestonian ratepayer and resident has a vested interest in Ald. McKenzie's motion as long term investors and stakeholders in the QVMAG.
It is important to understand that the QVMAG has grown like 'Topsy' for year upon year and arguably without constraint – 2000 to 2010 by something in the order of 300%. Launceston City Council has typically and "proudly" claimed the place as its very own. Nonetheless, successive Councils have been comfortable enough imposing the increasing costs upon Launceston's ratepayers as these costs have grown exponentially.
Despite this declared 'ownership' the the governance and management of the institution has become increasingly blurred and arguably to the institutions serious detriment. Likewise, the fiscal impost on ratepayers has become increasingly inequitable over time. So the prospect of change is pregnant with possibilities ... CLICK HERE TO READ A LETTER TO THE ALDERMEN
THE QVMAG WEBSITE: CLICK HERE
THE QVMAG FACEbook: CLICK HERE
THE QVMAG BLOG: CLICK HERE
3 comments:
People who form committees don't create change - they create paper. Now Ald McKenzie want to from a committee to review what countless other committees have produced about QVMAG. The Trustees of QVMAG are aldermen - why can't they get off their lard backsides and produce a strategic plan? Or resign!
Having a bunch of overpaid aldermen whose main ambition is to form committees and create even more bureaucracy won't solve the problem because IT IS THE PROBLEM!
Please tell me this is a joke! When an alderman needs to get permission, is it fro that GM, to do something he should be doing is silliness of the most elaborate kind.
However, I have just moved to Launceston to write comedy and it seems that I have landed on my feet.
Keep at it boys and girls, you will pay my rent.
Who is going to head up the committees looking into the cost and sustainability of the swimming pool and the footie ground? Ald Mckenzie I think has a conflict of interest so he would be out because he knows something.
This is all so stupid and very expensive.
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