Friday, April 22, 2005
Odd week
That said, there is not much on. Now that the decision has been made to wind up our branch we pushed hard to get the Lord Mayor to suspend working group business to take the pressure off the branch while we insitute the transition.
Jobs specs were released for the new organisation, rather humbly called the South East Queensland Council of Mayors, confirming all our worst fears - that is simply become a Mayor's club of jostling egos, rather than a genuine cooperative body working for COUNCILS in SEQ. Anyway, the job specs look pretty depressing, all about delivering on something the Mayors themselves will be responsible for - OK if they give it the time, but once they realise they really are minor pawns on the political scene and/or they loose interest, you would be on a hiding to nothing.
Simililarlty, you kind of get the impression that you're going to have to demonstrate a shared politcal vision - not something I am necessarily comfortable with. Not sure I want to see SEQ buried under bitumin and gridlocked with traffic. That said, I get the impression that the Cheif is wanting to push me in that direction.
On the bright side, an alternative job in the Neighbourhood Planning Team in Urban Management looks on the cards. Find out next week.
Odd week
Posted by Living with Matilda at 10:33 PM
That said, there is not much on. Now that the decision has been made to wind up our branch we pushed hard to get the Lord Mayor to suspend working group business to take the pressure off the branch while we insitute the transition.
Jobs specs were released for the new organisation, rather humbly called the South East Queensland Council of Mayors, confirming all our worst fears - that is simply become a Mayor's club of jostling egos, rather than a genuine cooperative body working for COUNCILS in SEQ. Anyway, the job specs look pretty depressing, all about delivering on something the Mayors themselves will be responsible for - OK if they give it the time, but once they realise they really are minor pawns on the political scene and/or they loose interest, you would be on a hiding to nothing.
Simililarlty, you kind of get the impression that you're going to have to demonstrate a shared politcal vision - not something I am necessarily comfortable with. Not sure I want to see SEQ buried under bitumin and gridlocked with traffic. That said, I get the impression that the Cheif is wanting to push me in that direction.
On the bright side, an alternative job in the Neighbourhood Planning Team in Urban Management looks on the cards. Find out next week.
Posted by Living with Matilda at 10:33 PM
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