Next - you may need an accomplished GARDENING GURU to give you a hand.
He may not need to know anything about AUSTROADS and the Australian Road Rules industry standards, including the required design and construction standards for Australian Rural Roads, or even be able to spell WA Main Roads.
However it may be wise for anyone and everyone concerned to be able to stand up in a Coroner’s Court to bullshit their way out of trouble when someone has their life ended through gross negligence in road maintenance.
The Shire President has made a Churchillian Statement that is so rudimentary, so primitive, so basic (and so sanguine) it is almost brilliant. ‘It is important that the CEO employees (should be employs) staff with expertise to construct and maintain Shire Roads’.
All the community hopes that the CEO listens to his President’s absolute gem of wisdom and astuteness.
However-rumour has it that the Shire of York has poached (no pun intended) Beverly District High School’s famous chook shed builder and ‘multi-talented’ gardener to fill the long vacant position of Works Supervisor on a trial basis.
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Jethro (left of picture) with
his little works crew
constructing chook shed
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This man of many talents is Jethro Sleer and for everyone’s sake we wish him well.
In this case there are two meanings for trial basis, one is to assess the performance of an employee, and the other is a court appearance as the end result of something going seriously wrong!
Any Works Supervisor should be an integral part of ensuring the proper maintenance of local roads to AUSTROADS and Main Roads definitive specifications.
Such specifications must not include sealing a loose, dry, unbound, washed-away road shoulder on the inside of a high speed corner with asphalt as has already occurred.
Nor the hiring of a Vladimir Putin to claim that you cannot photograph serious mistakes being made in repairing a public road while someone is trying to repair it.
For the PUBLIC SERVANT GURU who allegedly said this, no matter what rules and regulations you quote, if it is a public road it is a public place-then anyone can take a photograph.
As York’s multi-functional Shire President may say in future, it is time the Shire of York invests in employing staff who know what they are doing and do not make presumptuous, preposterous, laughable statements about the basic rights of an individual in public without legal advice.
He may find that only a POLICE OFFICER has the legal right to request someone remove themselves from a public place, including a dangerous, local shire road.
Then of course there is the Shire inspired Talis Report that was accepted, but not really.
Otherwise if it had - there should be no road drainage stuff-ups: causing roads to flood through being built with inverted crowns
and
a) no ubiquitous potholes that go halfway to China,
b) no steep shoulders and road verges that plunge down like the edge of the Grand Canyon,
c) and no fun involved in setting fire to grass around concrete culverts that surprise-surprise-explode. (That is the effort of a real Bright Spark.)
York has seen some of the pictorial evidence of the public thoroughfare nicknamed The Terminator, and the Stairway to Heaven.
This is the road widened then terminated at the crest of hill, on a corner, giving the road user the thrill of playing ‘Chicken’ to see who pulls out of a head-on collision and takes to the gravel, then the bush, then a tree.
The photograph of this incredible debacle, published in York’s Social Media, may have caused a miraculous shire inspired invigoration to improve a local road.
The CEO is on public record as saying, two staff members who no longer work for the shire made the decision to terminate the road work at this location.
As this decision was made in 2017 and the CEO still works for the Shire, it appears that Mr Paul Martin, may be blaming a potentially deadly faux-pas on one who’s disappearance will always remain a matter for conjecture.
The Shire of York’s spin on this former employee is the person left at his own request, maybe because of illness, not any ineptitude.
Local Government Officials should always be careful when and where they lay the blame.
Given David Wallace’s obvious command of the problems at hand, his response to his CEO’s public statement should be - what are you talking about? I do not give a toss about who they are, the damage is done and you are ultimately responsible.
It should be noted that the Minister for Transport, Lisa Saffioti, will soon be in possession of the original image which could be hung on her wall for posterity on how not to build a road.
Regarding the power of Social Media, even if it is not read by the CEO and the Shire President, it may cause things to happen by proxy.
Congratulations on doing that, if you have, and I wish you the greatest of luck with your enterprise.
David Taylor.
It would be very interesting to know if the esteemed public servant guru now charged with the responsibility of fixing a decade of gross negligence on our shire roads actually has the civil engineering degree we all expect of such highly paid consultant or is he just another mate of the CEO parachuted in to continue the cover up.
ReplyDeleteTime will tell as i believe this matter is now before the minister of transport and likely to be the focus of a ministerial enquiry.
I have read the agenda for next week's shire meeting.
ReplyDeleteI notice that President David Wallace has avoided answering the very simple question he was asked by a member of the public. He was asked what his expectations were of the only person he employs, the CEO.
Who is wallace protecting,the CEO or himself, he is certainly not putting the interests of the public he serves at the forefront of his decision making.
I would expect a Shire President to be capable of delivering a coherent articulate response to any pertinent question asked by a member of the gallery during public question time.
ReplyDeleteThe response such as it was, is an insult to anyone with a modicum of cerebral capacity. I expect much more for $40,000.00 per annum.
I agree Anonymous 18 April @ 14:34, there are occasions when it’s better to keep ones mouth shut than to speak for speaks sake. As with previous Shire Presidents, the incumbent President should engage his brain before he speaks, similar to driving a tractor, engage the gears before attempting to do the task.
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ReplyDeleteDave Wallace gets paid $40000 to have cups of tea, a few cakes and a laugh with his mate Paul Martin. Neither of them are capable of making a decision and appear comfortable to allow the horrors of the Ray Hooper cum Jimmy Best era to remain hidden behing endless lies.
I am also astounded that CEO Martin can justify the half million dollars he has extracted from this community in the past two years. He has done nothing but delagate his responsibilities to subordinate staff many of whom are unqualified and inexperienced. When the shit hits the fan he sits back and blames the poor souls as they are shown door.
Wake up council you are responsible for holding these two parasites to account.
What is it with some Shire of York staff? Some are delightful (you know who you are) and some are exceedingly rude (so far up their own arses they’re oblivious to who they are). Take Ms Littlefart for instance, who does she think she is? No one give a rats arse about qualifications sweetie, or that plum you have stuck in your haughty gob, and that supercilious demeanour likening the lesser mortal to something picked up on the sole of a shoe only goes to prove what a thoroughly detestable persona you are. Try this biatch…..with pin pegs like that, it’s no wonder you drive a Landrover. Yo take that mofo.
ReplyDelete"No one gives a rats arse about qualifications"? You may want to re-read this blog again, Anonymous @ 19 April 2018 at 19:19
ReplyDeleteOut of context sweetie. “No one gives a rats arse about qualifications” in context to her pretentious demeanour, as opposed to ‘qualifications’ in relation to her role in the organisation, whatever that is?
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