Voting closes but outcome will have to wait

VOTING for this contentious proposal closes on Wednesday, October 11, but it appears that ratepayers and residents will need to wait until the Bass Coast Shire Council meets in mid to late December, to learn of the outcome.

What!!! Two months for the council staff to count approx. 1050 votes. With one person counting this would only be some 25 votes a day counted, which I agree is an impossible workload, but do-able.

Imagine if six staff got stuck into the count they may get it done in a week!

This just “beggars’ belief”, whichever way you look at it. The project, which has been a total schnozzle from the start, continues unabated in the same vein two years down the track.

Surely a prudent, organised Council, would be maintaining a running, tally of votes cast, on a weekly basis which would allow them to assess the outcome by the end of October and even if they then wanted to have the votes independently audited, the outcome would be available by the November Council meeting, at the latest.

This is a disgrace, and we deserve and demand better than a bunch of incompetent Councillors and senior staff who have no understanding of corporate responsibility, professional duty or community courtesy.