Ah yes- the
wondrous pontifications called bullshit that inveigles its way into Local Shire
Council’s mantras.
These are unaccountable, impossible to substantiate hymns of collective personal praise in honour of what is actually a lack of local council ability and endeavour.
It is what is also called chutzpah, a Yiddish term for gall, brazen nerve and unfettered arrogance.
York’s little gem is “To build on our past to create our future”.
In this Shire of York’s case it means absolutely nothing. It is not building or creating anything, and appears to be in total denial and/or total ignorance of the fact.
It would come far closer to the truth if the motto was ‘to maybe try and rebuild our past- just in case we have some sort of a future’.
Certainly the neglected, desecrated St. Patrick’s Convent could do with some obscenely expensive tender loving repair and the historic York graveyard is a disgusting ‘falling, forlorn tombstone territory’.
View the images and you will understand why!
You could easily make the assumption that the Shire of York is
actually destroying its past through a deliberate regime of pure neglect and
abandonment.
Perth City Council’s, many who charge far lower annual domestic property rates than York, have $1 billion squirrelled away for the rainy day that requires improved public facilities for their communities.
Try and ask one of York’s Councillors what funds York has in a safe haven? It is arguably very little, to nothing, and they would not have a clue how much it is anyway.
To call York’s shire and community assets, few of which are saleable, a nest-egg for the town’s future would be farcical.
The current shire is not just moribund, it is going backwards.
It is well below Local Government Industry standards as a place to live, exacerbated by the fact that this council is considered even worse as a governing organization.
It has even plunged backwards in most standards since the reign of King Ray of Kalgoorlie, Chittering and York.
To cap this off, in the knowledge that King Ray and his cohorts totally ignored York’s history and the meaning of historic, the councils 2016-17 Annual Report mentioned the word history only twice in a 98 page, nondescript document.
One of the Shire’s few relative strengths is claimed to be ‘how (its) history is preserved and promoted’.
This is obviously some sort of rather humourless joke and begs the question does this council know what the word history means and the concept of community value in the word historic?
That--- is highly unlikely!
Strangely enough the Shire of York does have a local in charge of so-called ‘Arts and Cultural Heritage” the meaning of which should include the preservation of one of the state’s oldest and most historic graveyards.
Unfortunately it looks like a rubbish tip for headstones. So what does this woman do for a living and what history is being preserved? Can she learn to be a monumental mason?
Also the Shire has a Community and Economic Development Officer presumably to develop the economy by promoting the town through its rich history.
So what bit of richness has been promoted in the town, successfully, in the past 4 years?
Then there is the other awkward conundrum.
The Shire President is a multi-generational member of the York community.
The dead relatives of his peers must be turning in their graves as their monuments collapse above them through neglect.
As York staggers from one impending disaster to another, it should be remembered that “Our Beloved Leader” may remain in office for another long 44 months and the CEO even longer.
David Taylor.
It is well below Local Government Industry standards as a place to live, exacerbated by the fact that this council is considered even worse as a governing organization.
It has even plunged backwards in most standards since the reign of King Ray of Kalgoorlie, Chittering and York.
To cap this off, in the knowledge that King Ray and his cohorts totally ignored York’s history and the meaning of historic, the councils 2016-17 Annual Report mentioned the word history only twice in a 98 page, nondescript document.
One of the Shire’s few relative strengths is claimed to be ‘how (its) history is preserved and promoted’.
This is obviously some sort of rather humourless joke and begs the question does this council know what the word history means and the concept of community value in the word historic?
That--- is highly unlikely!
Strangely enough the Shire of York does have a local in charge of so-called ‘Arts and Cultural Heritage” the meaning of which should include the preservation of one of the state’s oldest and most historic graveyards.
Unfortunately it looks like a rubbish tip for headstones. So what does this woman do for a living and what history is being preserved? Can she learn to be a monumental mason?
Also the Shire has a Community and Economic Development Officer presumably to develop the economy by promoting the town through its rich history.
So what bit of richness has been promoted in the town, successfully, in the past 4 years?
Then there is the other awkward conundrum.
The Shire President is a multi-generational member of the York community.
The dead relatives of his peers must be turning in their graves as their monuments collapse above them through neglect.
As York staggers from one impending disaster to another, it should be remembered that “Our Beloved Leader” may remain in office for another long 44 months and the CEO even longer.
David Taylor.
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