What was the final Cost? When will it be reported?

It is now a year on and you have to think that the reporting has been done and that the reports are available for scrutiny. If it has been done, what did the reporting tell us? If they are not in yet, then why not?

So much gets lost in the in the melee of day to day management of a large enterprise like Launceston City Council – but tracking expenditure and assessing outcomes are a part of all that. Assuming that there was State and/or Federal government funding involved you would also think that by now it would have been necessary to report on outcomes by now.

If the speculated cost reported in the press in 2008 had any veracity this project represented approx. $130 plus per rateable property in Launceston. The question that really needs to be asked is just how many budgetary glitches like this do ratepayers need to carry.

After that, ratepayers need to be quizzing their Aldermen about this project and this kind of thing. Why? Well, because in the end they are the ones who need to find the dollars to cover the expenditure – as taxpayers and/or ratepayers.

There are a lot more questions linked to all this that should or could be asked but let’s keep this simple and confined to some basic first principles for now.