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In today’s letters there is a timely letter from Kyle Barrett and she is kind of right in what she has to say. However, on the QVMAG there is so, so, much ill-informed commentary about.
Recently Ian Goninon wrote saying that "You've got to run some things at a loss” Well NO, the QVMAG is a Council COST CENTRE, and they are operated within a set budget to achieve Key Performance Indicators. Cost Centres are an investment!
The QVMAG is unsustainable because arguably it isn’t delivering the 21st C ‘culture cum social dividends' it should / could commensurate with the multiple millions of dollars invested by ratepayers. It could and it should.
If a young person (5 to 25) is curious about almost anything they’ll reach for their smartphone rather than visit a museum. Museum staff do that too, but that’s not what a 21st C cultural cum social museum curator should be doing.
They’re there to develop new and better understandings
SECTION 65 of the Local Govt Act say that Council GMs / CEOs must “guarantee" that Councillors make their decisions based on expert advice. Launceston has had a conga line of GMs / CEOs who couldn’t / didn’t do that for the QVMAG – sadly.
Therefore, the status quo pertains and the people at Town Hall that ratepayers pay to deliver services commensurate with their rates are arguably failing to deliver on their Key Performance Indicators.
The expertise is out there among the ratepayers, and it is just the case that nobody at Town Hall wants to admit that for fear of being held accountable or seen not to be delivering expertise commensurate with their arguably over-blown salaries.
Launceston
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