My open letter to all Councillors September 27th 2016, as published in the Tasmanian Times under comment #1 http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/weblog/article/passion-in-the-raw-down-huon-way/show_comments clearly illustrated why the Boundary Adjustment Survey should have been closed down.

After tonight’s Council meeting – a full gallery plus media, I can now only wonder how many of our elected Councillors even bothered to read my letter – or was tonight simply a display of ignorance, arrogance or both.

RECOMMENDATION

That:

a) The report on the Huon D’Entrecasteaux boundary adjustment community
engagement summary be received and noted.

b) The results of the survey are considered during the course of
implementation of resolution 15.028/16*.

(15.028/16* related to an agreed motion at last meeting of Council – briefly that HVC thank Kingborough for the invitation to resume discussions on Local Government Reform; the HVC wishes to broaden discussions to include Resource Sharing and Boundary Adjustments; and that HVC does not support voluntary amalgamations at this time and will consider this option only after all other options have been exhausted.)

Cr Smith moved an amendment to the motion that item “a” remain and item “b” be deleted. Cr Smith went on to explain her reason being because of the low level of respondents and because of the potential for people to repeat the survey a number of times.

And “if that were true the participation is even lower”.

Mayor Coad: “agreed it is not a valid survey and is of no use in any way whatsoever.”

Cr Mackintosh: “agreed and added we can learn from this going forward.”

Cr Ruzicka: “DISAGREE with the amendment”.

(Cr Ruzicka refused to speak into his microphone even after calls from the Gallery and repeated requests from the General Manager and the Mayor. He personally gave me a very intimidating death stare that has seriously bothered me and I am now considering my options under the Councillor Code of Conduct, Local Government Act 1993)

Since posting my comment in Tasmania Times I have heard from others who manipulated the survey data. I can now confirm that in excess of 102 of the survey results, complete with one line comments were completed by only 7 people – and 2 live in Hobart.

Therefore 27% of the survey is CORRUPT DATA – and that is only from people with whom I have personally been in contact.

How is it possible that Cr’s Wilson, Paul, Lange, Ruzicka and Heron can agree to accept the data as being of any future use whatsoever?

A shocking indictment from our elected representatives, in my view, is that tonight’s decision demonstrates a total lack of intelligence on this matter – and it also affirms the typical pattern of the HotH voting which we ratepayers have had to accept since the last elections.
Geoffrey Swan Lonnavale TAS