Gaining access to information such as Council’s Register of Delegated Authorities has been met with all manner of obstructions. Somewhat concerningly when it was finally possible – after months – to get a copy to the supposed 'register' it was simply not organised according to the kind of rigour one wouls associate with a $100 million per year operation.
Indeed, what purports to be the City of Launceston’s Register of Delegated Authorities:
• Carries no imprimatur that unambiguously identifies the ‘delegation’ with the City of Launceston;
• Carries no date or other identifiable information that links it to, and lends veracity to, the delegation’s appropriate delegator – open Council meeting, or other;
• Carries no recital of the delegation thus failing to provide delegations with ‘context and meaning’;
• Does not identify the person/people to whom an authority to act has been delegated thus rendering the delegation somewhat ambiguous – and arguably compromised ultimately.
Moreover, the register is not freely available for public scrutiny say on the Council’s Website. In 2016 this seems to suggest that public scrutiny is not only unwelcomed but also to be discouraged.
NOTE: Four random samples taken from the 52 page copy of the City of Launceston's Register of Delegated Authorities have been posted here to contextualise the documentation.
NOTE: Four random samples taken from the 52 page copy of the City of Launceston's Register of Delegated Authorities have been posted here to contextualise the documentation.
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