The personal information referred to is subject to secretive, conspiratorial Confidentiality Agreements within the Shire of York, between it and third-parties, regarding termination of staff employment where activities occurred that could give rise to external punitive actions being taken against the signatories to these agreements in a court of appropriate jurisdiction. The covert nature of these agreements have the intent of attempting to prevent and/or minimize the potential for such legal action.
1. Legal Fees (FOI)
The
Department of Local Government and Communities has stated that the Shire of
York has failed to retain important documents, under the the State Records Act 2000, as
being the full and accurate records of the Shire’s business
decisions and transactions to meet all legislative, business, administrative,
evidentiary and historical requirements. This would include evidentiary information directly pertaining to
Freedom of Information requests. It also infers that it has not retained
with all due care, in its custody and control, the personal information of third parties that
could be withheld for any legal reason as being too much personal information.
Even more to the point- most FOI requests directly involve certain staff and councillors. Given this- let us
say that the reason for the expenditure $15,000 legal fees to prevent staff
from giving out personal information is a possible ‘Churchillian, terminological inexactitude’.
2. Consultants to Replace Staff.
The
replacement of staff by consultants using any form of Confidentiality Agreement
to withhold the terms and conditions of their contractual arrangements to the
exclusion of any and all, fair and reasonable knowledge that should be provided
to the ratepayer, in the best interest of the community, is undemocratic and
unacceptable.
3. Staff Payouts
The use of the term ‘sacked’ was published in a financial record (Appendix A) attached to the Minutes of the council meeting of July 6, 2015, sourced from the Shire of York, and, being used twice, is not a typographical error. If, as stated, it is totally incorrect then it is a false, misleading and potentially malicious statement, released by the Shire of York Administration, that is personally detrimental to the future employment prospects of the person or persons who have recently left their employment at the Shire. What occurred was the entering into Confidentiality Agreements for Termination of Employment to protect the guilty from legal action and means ‘not being sacked- on a technicality’.
4. PPR
Professional Public Relations, based in West Perth, is an award winning, integrated, channel agnostic public relations agency not far from where James Best plies his trade as a strategic facilitator, idealation and envisioning expert at Hames Sharley, urban designers of Subiaco. PPR is a costly agency to hire its services and would be a distinctly expensive-overkill in providing ‘branding’ and other public relations advice to a council such as the Shire of York.
5. Exclusion
The
common reference for “Corporate knowledge” is the overall knowledge gained and
retained by agents within a system and their ability to co-operate with each
other in order to meet their goals. The role of Public Sector Officers,
including Shire Council employees, is to assist in the facilitation of
corporate knowledge by providing a platform of proper compliance with statutes, laws and governance that they are
required to administer by oversight and with accountability. Knowledge of Shire
activities (?), local issues, does and don’ts (?) and local history are not the province of Shire Council employees
nor is it any sort of fundamental or mandatory requirement in their contract of
employment. The Elected Member of a Shire Council is the arbiter of local, so-called corporate
knowledge and it is their role to use it, when necessary, in the best interests
of the ratepayers who elected them and for the community overall.
What this all means is that the next Chief-Executive-Officer employed by the Shire of York may have the same, or even less, so-called corporate knowledge than the current, Acting Chief-Executive-Officer. In the current case it is not a necessity, but it may be felt as a good excuse. Whatever corporate knowledge and its past co-operation with each other by agents within the system of the Shire of York has brought, it certainly has not met any goals expected by the York community.
David Taylor.
3. Staff Payouts
The use of the term ‘sacked’ was published in a financial record (Appendix A) attached to the Minutes of the council meeting of July 6, 2015, sourced from the Shire of York, and, being used twice, is not a typographical error. If, as stated, it is totally incorrect then it is a false, misleading and potentially malicious statement, released by the Shire of York Administration, that is personally detrimental to the future employment prospects of the person or persons who have recently left their employment at the Shire. What occurred was the entering into Confidentiality Agreements for Termination of Employment to protect the guilty from legal action and means ‘not being sacked- on a technicality’.
4. PPR
Professional Public Relations, based in West Perth, is an award winning, integrated, channel agnostic public relations agency not far from where James Best plies his trade as a strategic facilitator, idealation and envisioning expert at Hames Sharley, urban designers of Subiaco. PPR is a costly agency to hire its services and would be a distinctly expensive-overkill in providing ‘branding’ and other public relations advice to a council such as the Shire of York.
5. Exclusion
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Graeme & Gail
swotting up on corporate knowledge
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What this all means is that the next Chief-Executive-Officer employed by the Shire of York may have the same, or even less, so-called corporate knowledge than the current, Acting Chief-Executive-Officer. In the current case it is not a necessity, but it may be felt as a good excuse. Whatever corporate knowledge and its past co-operation with each other by agents within the system of the Shire of York has brought, it certainly has not met any goals expected by the York community.
David Taylor.
