Launceston has a self imposed fiscal problem in that the city's Council depends on Launcestonians and visitors infringing the city's parking regulations. They put on a bus to help people park outside the CBD – well that was the spin.You see people get a free bus ride to the CBD after they've parked their car on the outskirts – and it seems that its popular. You'd think that'd be all good but OH NO SHOCK HORROR the upshot is that it helps people avoid being fined for a parking infringement. That's BAD, very BAD!
The bureaucrats did their sums in 2009 – GM Frank Dixon et al – and got is all wrong – they didn't see it coming. People are not paying enough parking fines and they are needed to pay the salaries of the bean counter at Town Hall – even when they get their bean counting WRONG.
It's a bit like the Launceston Aquatic Centre 2009-2010 bureaucratically driven budget blowout. There is seems that the forecast was designed to generate a performance bonus BUT the lack of a parking problem around the centre demonstrate that people are NOT turning up for a swim and the GM driven 'marketing spin' was just that SPIN.
The evidence for all this will be in the LOSS – when it is eventually winkled out of Council.
Now the rate payers are going to have to pay more rates 2010-2011 to cover the bureaucrats' miscalculation (no stuff up!) that served the bureaucrats well enough but the rate payers' poorly – very poorly.
Now Launcestonians and Launceston's visitors who avoid infringing the city's parking regulations can take some comfort in the fact that they are being fined in advance and are thus contributing to the city's bureaucrats' extraordinarily high salaries – salaries it seems that are never threatened by non-performance penalties. The penalties are left for the city's long suffering rate payers and their visitors!
The worry is that as Council succeeds in encouraging people NOT to drive their cars to town those that need to are going to be fined at every opportunity on everyone else's behalf – now in advance and for non infringement – just so the bureaucrats can continue to draw a salary for miscalculation and non-performance.
If Launceston's long suffering rate payers think that the dice is loaded against them, well perhaps that's understandable.
The worry is that as Council succeeds in encouraging people NOT to drive their cars to town those that need to are going to be fined at every opportunity on everyone else's behalf – now in advance and for non infringement – just so the bureaucrats can continue to draw a salary for miscalculation and non-performance.If Launceston's long suffering rate payers think that the dice is loaded against them, well perhaps that's understandable.
Launceston General Manager Frank Dixon stuffs up big time again
CLICK HERE TO READ THE DEC 2009 SPIN
CLICK HERE TO READ THE MAY 2010 SPIN
CLICK HERE TO READ FRANK DIXON'S 2009 $220K PLUS PERFORMANCE SPIN
CLICK HERE TO READ THE DEC 2009 SPIN
CLICK HERE TO READ THE MAY 2010 SPIN
CLICK HERE TO READ FRANK DIXON'S 2009 $220K PLUS PERFORMANCE SPIN
2 comments:
I luv the grafix but most of all I like the links to the Frank Dixon self promotion Examiner spin … he must just hate online newspapers ... but hey there is a GOD!!
Perhaps the Tiger Bus should be encouraged towards extinction just like its namesake... allowing the user-pay system to take over and not drive (no pun intended) the prescious shopper out of town because of high cost parking and high fines ??
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