Monday, September 19, 2011

WE pay you to know, not to employ consultants


A subtle shift has overtaken local government in the last 20 years . Either the staff we employ are less capable or the decisions those staff have to make have got harder . There is a case for saying that the staff have infact got smarter because we have fallen for the later idea . Somehow the engineers and planners of a previous generation managed before when infrastructure decisions were more complex and were more far reaching . Now we can't even study the traffic without employing a consultant.
I can't see the point too with the totally ineffective expenditure on north Apollo bay beaches over the last 20years why they pay someone to tell them to just put more rock and different pipes when: after all, the land is sand and that's what we want to remain . http://otwaysonline.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-to-our-beautiful-rocky-beaches.html Pipes come first - its what you'd expect if engineers made environmental decisions.