BEST DOES HIS WORST YET

                                                                                                             

March 5, 2015

Your Ref:  0121283,OR,CMA.5

GUY LEHMAN REPORT/YRCC

To Mr. James Best,

Rejoice you extreme Jihadists of the Caliphate of Kroy. I have received a three-paragraph, signed he-mail from the Commissioner himself. What an honour. I felt I was about to swoon but I just made it to the smelling salts in time. ( For those interested Kroy is York spelled backwards, the direction it is still heading despite any best endeavours)

What an ebullient, albeit short, explanatory epistle it is Mr. Best. It makes Jenni Law’s efforts read like those of the literary genius like Leonid Tolstoy. Yes! it is Leonid, but as you have been told before-W.B Yates is W.B Yeats. But hey, what’s in a missing “e”other than lack of knowledge.

Wow! there is a change of direction warranted. We’ve known that for two years. Or does this mean that the YRCC premises will peer vacantly to the South West, rather than North-East as it does now?

And who was the brilliant mind that finally realized changes were needed. Was it the best from Best Business Communications Pty Ltd,  (BBC)? With such a grandiose personal company name -you must be listed on the ASX.

Now it is your intention to review the gaps within the report. I am assuming here you mean the above mentioned Guy Lehmann Report. By “my intention” I assume you mean that you are qualified as a business marketing analyst listed on the UWA register has having an in-depth knowledge of the tourism, restaurant, liquor, convention and hospitality industries?

No you are not. You have a Curtin University Arts degree majoring in sociology and politics. That’s the next level above Honours in Window Cleaning.

Your expertise is allegedly as a consultant in the nebulous world of strategic facilitation, ideation and visioning. A socio-political clairvoyant, with a touch of oxymoron. 

Your inference is that there were gaps in the Lehmann report. Are you suggesting the report is sub-standard? Have you authorized the payment of $10,000 for a report with gaps? Or have you had a “Light-bulb Moment” which will bring gasps of amazement from an extremist minority and attempts at squeals of joy from the vast, mute majority?

The liquor licence you are referring to is a Commercial Tavern Licence. Anyone with half a brain realized that the Shire of York Council Administration did not have the qualifications or any form of ability to be a publican and meet the terms and conditions required in the Liquor Licencing Act. The YRCC has not met these standard obligations since the day the doors first fell open. (Sorry I think that was the toilet doors after the brand new sewerage system exploded).

Your proposed finalization of the Competitive Neutrality Plan is a tad late. There is little to no competition to be neutral about. It may be best to refer to it as your Competitive Neutered Plan. 

It often worries me how the flotsam and jetsam of the Local Government Chief-Executive-Officer whirlpool keeps bubbling to the surface to have a feeding frenzy on the fat carcass of the lucrative, rort-riddled third tier of democratic governance. 

Dominic Carbone for instance was told see-yu-later by the City of Canning, the worst performing council in the 21st Century . Yet like the radio series ‘Chickenman’-“he’s everywhere”.
Especially when there is a fistful of dollars to be made by hanging around a few Shire Council officers and offices. This appears to include you.

Now regarding your impressive business nomenclature. It is more than likely a ‘shelf company’ that you can register 24/7 on eCompanies.com.au for just $507 while you are eating your Cornflakes. It has no business website, no email address, no telephone or mobile number, no facsimile, absolutely nothing- under the business name of BEST BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS PTY LTD (BBC) and your registered office may well be an Australia Post box in Leederville, WA 6007. This is the ersatz business registration that receives the massive monthly salary cheques you have no problem in accepting.

On November 17, 2014 you changed your company details and changed your Registered Address, just prior to being hired as Commissioner. What for I am sure nobody will ever know, accept, hopefully, the ATO.

Obviously, after scouring the newspapers for new business opportunities, you saw the “Show Cause Notice” served on York Council and smelled that sweet smell of lots of ratepayers cash.
You came up to York on two occasions to skulk around the Council meetings of December 8 and 11, 2014, to see how much of a jackpot it was going to be. Then off you trotted to Tony Simpsons office to make sure the Show Cause Notice was enforced and you became the extremely cashed-up saviour of York.

Firstly as a socio-politician you do not have to be Freud or Churchill to understand that your “reds under the beds”, extremist, Australia Day speech meant you were useless and worthless to the people of York from the time you finally shut your mouth. I would not doubt that this is biggest faux pas you have made in your career and it will follow you around where-ever you go.

Finally- Do not ever send me an email like this one again! . All I will do to this kind of crap is pull it to pieces and hang it up for the ridicule it deserves.

Thank you

David Taylor.