Tinkerbell

It's been my observation that many Councillors are bad at their job. Many don't understand the actual job at hand or care far more about their own selfish agenda.

This series will deal with the types of Councillors one may come across if one were only to wake up to who is actually being elected to represent us ratepayers.

TINKERBELL.

(Fiddler Unproductis)

The most light-weight of the Councillor Types, they come with a heavy price tag. They think their job is to 'tinker' around with the district spreading their own particular brand of fairy dust: suggesting dedicated scooter bays for the under sixes, flamingo floatie beach hiring stations, or a pet parade fashion contest.

They will also lobby to install pointless paths, extra park benches and water fountains in their areas, in a bid to look like they are ‘getting the job done’, whilst singularly failing to understand that this is NOT the job.

Their efforts create meaningless extra busy work for admin, unfair queue jumping for infrastructure projects, high opportunity costs and wholly unnecessary expenditure. In favouring their patch they also neglect to understand that the Local Government Act demands that they represent the entire district. Tinkerbell gets in the way of ensuring a rigorous and consistent approach to delivering an appropriate level of service.

Their tinkering leaves them with no time for the core functions of being a Councillor, i.e. performance managing the CEO and overseeing budgetary restraint, while ensuring appropriate service levels that meet ratepayers’ expectations across the district.

Skill rating:

Read reports: 2/10

Effective oversight: 0/10

Waste ratepayer money: 8/10

Performance manage CEO: 0/10

Local government needs better elected members.

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