I AM aware of businesses that have made sincere and fully funded approaches to the Department of Environment, Water, Land and Planning (DELWP) some months ago.
I would say Monday night’s meeting in Toolangi was disastrous.
The Toolangi Forest Discovery Centre is destined to suck at the tax payers’ teat for the foreseeable future.
Despite months of opportunity, the group in the limelight seems to have no grasp on business viability.
The group asked DELWP for a “business plan template” and many of the questions demonstrated a frightening lack of understanding in basic business.
If DELWP had a “business plan template”, one would question the motives behind passing a lease or sale arrangement?
An arrangement that would seek to benefit the tax payer, not continue to suck much-needed funds from the public sector.
The answer may lie in a comment made by DELWP: “The wheels of bureaucracy move slowly, a committee of management will result in a faster outcome”.
No sane business would enter any sublease with this committee of management after listening to that meeting.
Every tax payer should be outraged that “slow bureaucracy” is a good reason to handball viable state assets.
The problem, in this instance, seems that the “viability” is being measured by a government department that is looking for a quick way out.
Each time you hear treasury making cuts, keep in mind that DELWP is openly sabotaging State and Federal treasury under the guise of “community benefit”.
Mal Cinter,
Chum Creek.
