With our roads full of holes and our
footpaths f***ked, oh where can we park our RV? (Copyright Disney Studios)
Before you read on, if an asthmatic use Ventolin, if already depressed use Prozac and if you have blood pressure problems take your Warfarin.
Now, having been warned, if you are bored and you want to scare yourself half to death- keep on reading and enjoy the macabre, frightening, spine-chilling calculations displayed as item SY121-09/08 RV PARK RELOCATION COSTINGS- and freak-out.
The original cost estimate for the new RV site was $79,960 to be completed months ago. Unfortunately sealing the surface appears not to have been included so a lot has now slipped into the Avon River.
Expenditure up to date has been $72,788 with earthworks ballooning out from a mere $24,415 to a majestic $64,135 and eighteen cents, close to three times the original guesstimate . Much of that is flowing down the Avon too.
Now comes the next gem, the amount to complete the original, obviously crazy design is $73,940. So if you take your shoes and socks off to keep counting you will discover the awful truth- it actually is going to cost nearly twice as much -$145,132.
Before you read on, if an asthmatic use Ventolin, if already depressed use Prozac and if you have blood pressure problems take your Warfarin.
Now, having been warned, if you are bored and you want to scare yourself half to death- keep on reading and enjoy the macabre, frightening, spine-chilling calculations displayed as item SY121-09/08 RV PARK RELOCATION COSTINGS- and freak-out.
The original cost estimate for the new RV site was $79,960 to be completed months ago. Unfortunately sealing the surface appears not to have been included so a lot has now slipped into the Avon River.
Expenditure up to date has been $72,788 with earthworks ballooning out from a mere $24,415 to a majestic $64,135 and eighteen cents, close to three times the original guesstimate . Much of that is flowing down the Avon too.
Now comes the next gem, the amount to complete the original, obviously crazy design is $73,940. So if you take your shoes and socks off to keep counting you will discover the awful truth- it actually is going to cost nearly twice as much -$145,132.
But it gets even better (or
worse). The expenditure to complete the apparently hopelessly flawed design
with a 2 seal coat to keep it all out of the Avon is $87,345- a grand total of
$159,133.
To complete this bodge-job to a minimum standard-it will cost just $38,605 or $111,393 all up. How much will still end up clogging the river is not mentioned.
Could it get better/worse? yes it can. The original booby-prize winning design did not have a DUMP POINT where the RV’s can release their flotilla of floaties. One would have assumed that this was one of the main objects of the exercise-but then again obviously not!
So you can add-on $4,355 for toiletries!
If you classed the Shire of York as a publicly-owned corporation with expenditure estimations being so financially-flawed you would see a plunge in its share price, the CEO sacked and the Board of Directors removed from office.
There is a term called financial duty of care which the current Shire of York Council and administration arguably hasn’t come to grips with.
And there could be another meaning for the Shire keeping up its level of performance with the term Key Performance Indicators( KPI’s) . It could be Keep People Ignorant!
David Taylor.
To complete this bodge-job to a minimum standard-it will cost just $38,605 or $111,393 all up. How much will still end up clogging the river is not mentioned.
Could it get better/worse? yes it can. The original booby-prize winning design did not have a DUMP POINT where the RV’s can release their flotilla of floaties. One would have assumed that this was one of the main objects of the exercise-but then again obviously not!
So you can add-on $4,355 for toiletries!
If you classed the Shire of York as a publicly-owned corporation with expenditure estimations being so financially-flawed you would see a plunge in its share price, the CEO sacked and the Board of Directors removed from office.
There is a term called financial duty of care which the current Shire of York Council and administration arguably hasn’t come to grips with.
And there could be another meaning for the Shire keeping up its level of performance with the term Key Performance Indicators( KPI’s) . It could be Keep People Ignorant!
David Taylor.
Dump point? The SOY allow a person to live on their block with NO amentities at all so no power, no running water, no dunny etc so the SOY not planning a Dump Point at the new RV area really means nothing lol. :O
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