More proof has emerged about how amalgamated councils lose touch with the community.
The latest is the coach of a children’s football team on Auckland’s North Shore who mowed the long grass on a field and filled in mud holes, because the Council wouldn’t do it.
The Council has decided not to prosecute the coach under rules that forbid the public to cut grass on sports fields due to the ubiquitous, inspiration-sapping, scourge of modernity, “health and safety reasons”.
The thing about local Councils is their staff know and use assets like fields and parks as local residents. This makes them more responsible, responsive, and likely to help.
Amalgamated Councils, remotely delivering services, don’t do better, they do worse – at a higher cost.
