As a breeze blows across a couple of hectares of bare paddock,
dust settles on large windows with an outlook to very little, unless you like
tennis and faux lawn?
No chance to scream for your footy and cricket teams from the bar as it was located and planned by architects who would have designed a giraffe with feathers and a 10 metre wingspan.
So who was the building actually created for?
The sports fan who loves a Carlton Mid, Draught and Dry, Cascade Light, Great Northern Super Crisp Lager and Matilda Bay Dogbolter on tap while enjoying the view of a bar instead of their team sprinting out onto Forrest Oval?
Or the sedentary, adipose-enhanced patrician who enjoy a Groisch, Rogers, Nail Stout, Pistonhead Lager and Squires in their own purpose built, semi-private, quaffing palace without being disturbed by the awfully loud and annoying sound of barracking?
There is always access to at least $22,000 worth of beverages in stock in any given month, even when the stocktake has to be asked for a week to four-weeks after the report was due. All purchases, over the past 4-years, courtesy of local ratepayers.
Then there is the food stock holding, called ‘food calc’s, which comes in between $5,000 to $8,000 per month.
That means a lot of meals, from a lot of perishables, or maybe even a separate catering business?
These late reports are requested, in writing, with such professional accounting protocol terminology as ‘Thanks a bunch’ attached.
It is unsure when the Auditor General’s department takes over auditing local shire council books it will consider this internal audit linguistics as entirely appropriate.
These stocktake value reports are not from 2013-2014 Financial Year, they are from this year-2017.
Are some of the boutique beer beneficiaries those who authorized the building of this bar in the first place?
Was the entire premises developed more as a failed Convention Centre for the South East Avon Region of Council’s starlets who wished to tread the boards on an amalgamated council stage, rather than to satisfy the needs of the local sports clubs?
That is for local ratepayers, and the community, to decide!
Until July 1 , 2019, the entire population of the Shire of York will be paying at least $62 per head, annually, to keep the bar and eatery alive. It means everyone including those way-to-young to vote, or drink alcohol.
Furthermore- the domestic ratepayers of York will also be funding everything associated with it to the tune of around $676 per annum, each, which is the difference between their property’s Gross Rental Value and the cost of past shire financial mistakes- by comparison to other councils.
These include the syphoning-off of funds intended for road maintenance that has caused a multi-million dollar problem with local roads.
Although by no means a recommendation but more a discussion point, the closure of the café section would see a minimum of between $60,000 and $96,000 saved per annum. A reduction in monthly beverage stock holdings and opening hours reduced to Friday’s through Sunday’s would also see a massive reduction in costs.
It would mean that the Shire is not just paying lip-service to ‘Competitive Neutrality’ regarding other similar, privately owned businesses whether established or proposed- such as the Imperial Hotel reincarnation.
It could provide the opportunity for no rate increases over the next few years, maybe even a rebate.
Unfortunately this will not happen. The Shire of York administration has acted swiftly in shoring-up its position of control over both Council and a financially limiting asset by advertising two new permanent positions.
One is a Wait Services and Functions Officer (commonly known as a waiter or waitress) answerable to the Prairie Bar & Grill Manager and to the Catering Manager when appropriate.
The other is a Kitchen Hand, there to slice and dice $8,000 worth of perishables per month to serve a Sunday crowd of 14 gourmands.
No privately owned café, restaurant, sandwich deli, pie, kebab and fish-and-chip shop can survive on selling just 14 meals on a given day without the financial backing of a multi-millionaire doing some money laundering.
Any additional cost to ratepayers for these Shire of York employees, (not YRCC employees), is currently unknown. What it means is the Prairie Bar & Grill cannot survive without massive financial support from ratepayers.
The applicants will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, age, marital status, pregnancy, race, disability, religious or political convictions.
It would appear that members of the LGBT community need not apply
None of the Senior Management of the Shire of York administration had any involvement in the development of the bar and café.
However they now seem to be exacerbating the financial problems facing all current stakeholders and any future Licencee-lessee.
The administration has been tasked to provide a final solution in the best interest of ratepayers and the community in the manner and time frame agreed to by Council. This should be after the 2017 election.
It is COUNCIL who RULES and is responsible for making the final decision.
David Taylor.
No chance to scream for your footy and cricket teams from the bar as it was located and planned by architects who would have designed a giraffe with feathers and a 10 metre wingspan.
So who was the building actually created for?
The sports fan who loves a Carlton Mid, Draught and Dry, Cascade Light, Great Northern Super Crisp Lager and Matilda Bay Dogbolter on tap while enjoying the view of a bar instead of their team sprinting out onto Forrest Oval?
Or the sedentary, adipose-enhanced patrician who enjoy a Groisch, Rogers, Nail Stout, Pistonhead Lager and Squires in their own purpose built, semi-private, quaffing palace without being disturbed by the awfully loud and annoying sound of barracking?
There is always access to at least $22,000 worth of beverages in stock in any given month, even when the stocktake has to be asked for a week to four-weeks after the report was due. All purchases, over the past 4-years, courtesy of local ratepayers.
Then there is the food stock holding, called ‘food calc’s, which comes in between $5,000 to $8,000 per month.
That means a lot of meals, from a lot of perishables, or maybe even a separate catering business?
These late reports are requested, in writing, with such professional accounting protocol terminology as ‘Thanks a bunch’ attached.
It is unsure when the Auditor General’s department takes over auditing local shire council books it will consider this internal audit linguistics as entirely appropriate.
These stocktake value reports are not from 2013-2014 Financial Year, they are from this year-2017.
Are some of the boutique beer beneficiaries those who authorized the building of this bar in the first place?
Was the entire premises developed more as a failed Convention Centre for the South East Avon Region of Council’s starlets who wished to tread the boards on an amalgamated council stage, rather than to satisfy the needs of the local sports clubs?
That is for local ratepayers, and the community, to decide!
Until July 1 , 2019, the entire population of the Shire of York will be paying at least $62 per head, annually, to keep the bar and eatery alive. It means everyone including those way-to-young to vote, or drink alcohol.
Furthermore- the domestic ratepayers of York will also be funding everything associated with it to the tune of around $676 per annum, each, which is the difference between their property’s Gross Rental Value and the cost of past shire financial mistakes- by comparison to other councils.
These include the syphoning-off of funds intended for road maintenance that has caused a multi-million dollar problem with local roads.
Although by no means a recommendation but more a discussion point, the closure of the café section would see a minimum of between $60,000 and $96,000 saved per annum. A reduction in monthly beverage stock holdings and opening hours reduced to Friday’s through Sunday’s would also see a massive reduction in costs.
It would mean that the Shire is not just paying lip-service to ‘Competitive Neutrality’ regarding other similar, privately owned businesses whether established or proposed- such as the Imperial Hotel reincarnation.
It could provide the opportunity for no rate increases over the next few years, maybe even a rebate.
Unfortunately this will not happen. The Shire of York administration has acted swiftly in shoring-up its position of control over both Council and a financially limiting asset by advertising two new permanent positions.
One is a Wait Services and Functions Officer (commonly known as a waiter or waitress) answerable to the Prairie Bar & Grill Manager and to the Catering Manager when appropriate.
The other is a Kitchen Hand, there to slice and dice $8,000 worth of perishables per month to serve a Sunday crowd of 14 gourmands.
No privately owned café, restaurant, sandwich deli, pie, kebab and fish-and-chip shop can survive on selling just 14 meals on a given day without the financial backing of a multi-millionaire doing some money laundering.
Any additional cost to ratepayers for these Shire of York employees, (not YRCC employees), is currently unknown. What it means is the Prairie Bar & Grill cannot survive without massive financial support from ratepayers.
The applicants will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, age, marital status, pregnancy, race, disability, religious or political convictions.
It would appear that members of the LGBT community need not apply
None of the Senior Management of the Shire of York administration had any involvement in the development of the bar and café.
However they now seem to be exacerbating the financial problems facing all current stakeholders and any future Licencee-lessee.
The administration has been tasked to provide a final solution in the best interest of ratepayers and the community in the manner and time frame agreed to by Council. This should be after the 2017 election.
It is COUNCIL who RULES and is responsible for making the final decision.
David Taylor.
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