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This video had communications manager presenting to full council for money.
http://youtu.be/OEF0xWYhMs4 ( <--- click here for video to play)
And the air port delays, for the international model park, mount like a constipated geriatric.
The saying "kick for touch" comes to mind as Mayor Sinclair runs the clock out on that last chance for a delisted airfield. A summer of increased revenue for council from the community assets, the airfield, as delisting the airfield still let's locals take off and land full sized aircraft and delisting the airfield makes it legal for 14,000 Tokoroa residents to open a drone, as a gift, and fly in the local council parks, like you can in Hamilton, Rotorua, Taupo, and the other proactive councils that see the future and educate the young, and embrace the new technology of drone flying as a career path where some pilots of the models get paid more than the Mayor at $150,000 pa.
Here is the interview with the proponent of the International Model park before the full council meeting unfolded to see the staff obfuscate to the clear direction from governance at last meeting chaired by Herman Van Roojien to get on with it. Annual leave taken, redundant second opinions sought, the mayor happy to stand and be called out knowing he had run the clock out on a protential Mayoral Candidate and thus starving the oxygen from the air of competition with his endorsed candidate. (What happened to the rank and station being independent when in office as Mayor or President of the United States)
Interview over airfield above.
If this happens to one promoting such a simple jobs creation and skills aquisition idea then what would happen with the past council with setting up a 200 person Abattoir?
Cr Thomas Lee asked at the meeting for reason that these 200 jobs from the drive trust money, $24 million, did not go ahead. CEO cited "Public access" as a reason it fell over, among other reasons, and wanted it hushed.
I hope none of the sitting Councilors apply for the Management position created when the $24,000,000 of the Drive Trust gets merged with the South Waikato Investment fund trust that will happen over the next four month.
We, as a community in South Waikato, would not want to see a hedge of council funds for a back door golden parachute if any of the elected members are not elected at this round of local body elections.
If you feel strongly about no councilors taking up this management position to promote the Distict and create jobs then please write to the new mayor of south waikato district council and voice your concerns.
We do not want to see perceived contingency planning, by some elected members, taking priority over public benefits like delisting the airport do we.
I have drafted my letter.
Titled transparency.
The video footage of the meeting is to keep elected members accountable and it is elected members job to keep the CEO accountable.
A break down with staff on any matter directly reflects on elected members 100%.
No wriggle room.
100%.
It is up to the CEO to protect his hide and if any room left after this then the hide of the community.
And it is elected members to take that advice but if elected members find the CEO misleads council and does not stop staff misleading then elected members must make consequences for the CEO.
Council, in its decisions, then and always is 100% responsibility for CEO's actions. (Like demolition of the east bowling club and selling the I beam left over. Show the resolution from council that mandates the distraction of the east bowling club that the CEO acted upon. You have seen the video of the report of the CEO back to a bewildered Cr Thomas Lee fielding members information request as to why the A frame was destroyed too)
Responsibility rests with elected members.
The sanction, of dismissing the CEO, is the ultimate sanction elected members only have. The reigns to pull up a wayward staff is that should happen over the east bowling club or any other matter the community brings to the table like spraying weeds and nicely planted trees.
The ultimate remedy, for elected members, to gather control, over the CEO, is to reenforce that the CEO only act on resolution from full council to that affect. Where was it that a community building, in east bowling club, was to be demolished just days before the parties moved them to new sites.
Has the council been misled over the airfield?
Mr Simpson makes an eloquent case for council being miss lead on many points of fact over a long period of time about the airfield.
You be the judge.
Public opinion.
Elections and ballot box is your way to get accountability for the CEO actions and staff.
Will we have an international model park this summer?
Ask the new mayor!
Only elect members who take 100% responsibility for what happens out of council.
Those that say they rely on the advice of staff are wrong. (The staff advice the CEO and the CEO advises the full council only. Spending the responsibility to 150 council staff and 47 cars is why the east bowling club got squashed and the love soup kitchen got frog marched off by the scruff of the neck from the sports and event centre car park.
Show us the elected members resolution to do this. Their is not. So why did it happen. Don't like it then don't elect.
The next mayor first order of business may be to take the cost of the love soup kitchen building and the A frame out of the CEO pay over the next three years. Why should the community suffer the loss when the CEO was totally responsible for the demolition decision. Because if you can not find a resolution from full council to say demolish it was a unilateral decision.
And the Councilors of the new elected body must make recompense of the love soup kitchen the number one agenda item.
If heads are going to roll then day one is the best time.
Justice must be done and seen to be done. One head rolling means 149 keep theirs.
No heads rolling means all 150 take not responsibility for any actions taken outside council resolution and that is what we have with love soup.
Elected members can move onto the international model park at the airfield agenda number two.
When I say heads roll I mean the coins are pushed across the table to pay for the damage done. (A group of youth smashed school Windows in the weekend reported by south waikato news and a few $1,000 damage. The CEO destroyed $200,000 worth of buildings without a resolution from council to do so and love soup are homeless feeding the homeless and that included smashing all the windows of love soup east bowling club). So pay up to keep your job is my public submission. We all ,are mistakes and these youth are no different from the CEO. They have families to go home to at night. Individually we can be compassionate but justice must not be. The rule of law applies to all. Whoever breaks a glass window deliberately with ill intent must be held to account. And pay a small atonement by rolling coins from one side of the table to the other side for the aggrieved party to capture.
Let the new elected council take full responsibility for the loss of love soup and honour the pledges made by the then mayor and then deputy mayor on behalf of the council.
Audit and risk committee chair (left) will be back next term and advise on setting this agenda concerning the CEO (right).
In the last week lets get the four mayoral candidates weighing into this matter and the 26 potential deputy mayors taking a position in this matter. Email them now for a reply and forward them to me for feed back. This can be treated as a hypothetical exercise if you like and the opinions above are my honest opinions with the limited facts I have to hand. Full council will have the power to get at the full suit of facts. I am asking for more information (community information request if you like). And elected members to champion it and deliberate and decide. But it must first be an agreed agenda item put up by the new Mayor. So ask them now. Voting closes at the end of the day Saturday week.
Seems from these staff comments and elected members support that the love soup kitchen was in the way of the sports and event centre (watch quick minute video on enterence 2017 here-->)http://youtu.be/QeSW9gg5Xgo
