Shire of York

Shire of York

Sunday 19 March 2017

MEERKAT MAYHEM.

Mr. David Wallace and Mr. Paul Martin.
Date March 20, 2017.

CC Hon. David Tampleman
Minister for Local Government

Your Ref : - APPENDICIES SY124-O317

HOW IN THE HELL CAN YORK ANSWER THIS ONE?

Dear David, I think Mark McGowan said that you all should hit the ground running. If you read the above listed APENNDICIES you will understand why!


There is quite a humorous advertisement on TV where one of the world’s cutest animals,’ the meerkat’ becomes a stupid but lovable advertising marketing executive for an insurance company.
Now The Shire of York has hired one of the myriad hard-cash-munching predators called Markyt Community Scoreboard 2017, Catalyse Pty Ltd who slowly circles a wounded local government body getting ready for a feeding frenzy, or at least a $50,000 deposit. (CEO Paul Martin has said in the past he wanted to do all evaluations ’in-house’ that is why we have the Great (White) Asset Hunter.)

Markyt claims to provide an overview of statutory local government performance, communications, community and economic development, the quality of customer service, the evolution of important community capital works programs as a percentage valuation of a particular local government. Basically- how big a bang the community gets for its buck. There have been 40 lucky local government recipients so far.  I am sure this was during the Castrilli, Simpson and Miles era.

Over a myriad of Benchmark Matrix which alleges there will be an accurate Overall Performance Index Score the Shire of York Produced an absolute shocker, and average 9.54 % and that is if you use 50 % as an average benchmark. That is the York standard for any commercial development and business projects that really do matter.

If you used the Industry Standard evaluated on other local governments entire repertoire in this state you would come up with a percentage figure of 54.7 % overall, that puts the Shire of York 46.16% on average behind these other councils,

The Industry High evaluation, that is rarely achieved, is between 60% and 90% that would put the Shire of York somewhere around 70 % below those who really are their competitors.

The most important evaluations were disgusting. The only services that came close to the quality provided by any of the other shires were general customer service and waste disposal. However the magnificent focal point for York sport, drinking, eating and convententions that never happen did fairly well, the York Recreation and Convention Centre had a local 60 % approval rating. 
The Industry Average is 74, and the Industry High is 81. Its annual revenue however is way below that of a York business, long since closed and which only traded on weekends.

There were 321 York survey respondents, 61% of who said York is a great place to live, 13 points below the Industry Standard. So what does this mean, at least 13 % of every other town would not have a Forrest Bar and Cafe of living in York. No- it also means 2,161.505 do not want to live here.

Now this is where the Shire of York Council must become very, very careful before turning highly disputable statistical comments into fact. According to the Shire of York Official Website the population of York in 2012 was 3,688. (NEVER QUOTE FIGURES THAT ARE FIVE (5) YEARS OLD.)

THE CURENT REIWA, COM WEBSITE QUOTES THE POPULATION OF YORK AS BEING 2387 – 1,301 less than York’s figures.

I suggest you get off your collective arses right now – and advise York what the population of York really is in March 2017.

I congratulate David Wallace, his council and Paul Martin and his staff for allowing the undertaking of such a survey and allow York’s washing to be hung out to dry

Personally, in the manner it was done by Markyt, did those 321 respondents actually accuatately represent the average attitudes of the community of York? It is too hard to call.

Yours sincerely

David Taylor.

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