I don't think we can really blame those currently in charge of the council. They would be under a mandate to make as little decisions as possible considering they are not democratically elected.
Wow - didn't realise I harboured this level of frustration - you can always just skip to the bottom two lines for the shortened version
You're sort of right, only as Shaun outlined on the podcast this week, for the club it's coming up on a "do-or-die" type moment... They need some certainty about the future and are trying to do a strategic piece under which they can move forward... It is getting to that time in the lease cycle, where they need to know if they have to start looking for a "new home". We all know that they're not likely to need to, but "not likely" isn't always good enough.
So - for mine - this is starting to smell like exactly the sort of thing that you have an admin council appointed for... Not the sale etc as such, but the sort of thing where a decision can't really wait until a new council is elected and have gotten themselves into a position where work will actually commence. Knowing public sector, if they're elected in September and actually go in say - at the end of the mont... They're going to spend a couple of weeks working out if they can agree on who's going to be mayor... After that, the mayor is going to want to restructure everything because the administrator hasn't been doing things quite according to his vision... As a minimum the sanitation department should be renamed, and rebranded, the Department of Sanitation (because the 'of' makes all the difference).
Then all of the people actually employed and doing the work, will be cast into a couple of months of uncertainty over their jobs, because the new council invariably will be flagging "fiscal responsibility and expenditure restraints" leading to "cuts in administrational backend services" while the councillors are flagged for a pay increase to "bring them into line with senior private sector roles".
Then it's Christmas and New Year and then, they'll start 2018 with a gung-ho attitude only for the state government to be thrown into some sort of embarrassing situation, leading to Mike Baird stepping down and an election being called a year early, so the state government goes into "care-taker-mode" and Labor flags a significant disagreement with the new council setup, so no one can do anything until after the election, which Labor wins after which they start another council amalgamation piece, which puts everyone on notice and advises "patience and restraint" for the duration.
It then runs for a year-and-a-half, before they decide that the core problem was with the communications between councils and state government, so they setup a new communication forum and start discussing their issues.
Now then, we're in mid-2019 and a council worker finds a post-it under his desk, saying that Shaun has been calling for months, sounding increasingly irate, wanting to know what is happening with the lease review and expansion plans... The worker calls Shaun, who is watching that week's a-league game from the stands at the COE as the club was forced to relocate all games at the last minute, because the CCS lease expired.
OR - you could just watch Utopia on ABC, would give you a similar story just for federal
Good thing I'm not jaded though, that'd be a harrowing experience... The obvious point is that while the council has heaps of time, the club doesn't
