The QVMAG Annual Report has gone to Council but its not yet available on the QVMAG Website. Presumably it will be found here – http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/qvmag/index.php?c=71 – sometime in the future but in the meantime the The Examiner tells us something of its contents here – http://www.examiner.com.au/story/3449151/qvmag-to-be-highlighted-as-major-tourist-location/?cs=95 – and ratepayers should take a good look.
Right beside the report on the QVMAG's report there is a report on the $25,000 of grants to community groups. Rather curiously The Examiner does not tell its readers how much the QVMAG cost the ratepayers for 2014-2015. Then again neither do we seem to get clear and unconfused financial reporting of the Aquatic Centre's or Aurora Stadium's costs it seems.
It also seems that the Aldermen are happy enough with all this as clearly they are not asking questions and accepting reports presumably because they approve of the costs. There are business people amongst the aldermen and one has to wonder if any of this brand of accountability was applied to their restaurant, garage, office, pizza shop would they be always so happy with the performances of these "council operations".
Soon we will hear that "nobody attends Council AGM" and that its "not worth holding one". As each year passes the accountability bar, in Launceston at least, gets lower and lower but do we really deserve the councils we vote for?
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