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A BLOODY GOOD STORY ... "Imagine your local council didn't exist. In its place, a small group of people performed only the bare functions of government. Generic tasks were outsourced. Rate collection and capital works were outsourced too. Part-time contractors were employed by the council for specialist work. If service delivery was not satisfactory, the council could switch suppliers quickly. .... Read more here
For mine I think it is time to totally rethink this council idea when we elect 'representatives' and they are persuaded to hand all the authority we give them to an unaccountable GM and his 'underlings'!
The current model is BROKEN! Its time to fix it! While considering amalgamation lets start thinking outside the box ... let us invent a new model. Tasmania would be just the place to give this a go!
Think about this, just imagine that we managed to rest WASTE MANAGEMENT away from councils and re-imagined it as RESOURCE RECOVERY and run it as a community cooperative that paid dividends to members. Its not a new idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
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