Local Government Failures at the City of Melville

The following table contains a limited example list of publicly identified failures the City of Melville has refused to remedy

Documented evidence demonstrating accuracy is held.

This table will be amended from time to time, deleting remedied item and adding contemporaneous issues.

C1	Staff usurping and undermining the role of councillors.   LGA 5.43. & 5.44.	Accuracy and integrity of responses is not monitored. Questions asked of Council are not answered by Council. It is not unusual to find question that were asked of Council to be responded to by staff who had not been delegated authority to speak for Council and who were not privy to the thoughts and discussions of Councillors.
C2	Failure of Council to provide direction to CEO. LGA. s2.7 WHS Act	Volunteers provide a valuable service to their Local Government and are not classed as employees. Despite that the City publishing claims of valuing, respecting and protecting volunteers, Council has not developed or authorised a Policy for Valuing, Respecting, Protecting and Managing Volunteers. Volunteers are managed without the authority to do so.
C3	Failure of Council to provide Policy direction to CEO. LGA. s2.7 – WHS Act	Volunteers provide a valuable service to their Local Government and are not classed as employees. Despite the City publishing claims of valuing, respecting and protecting volunteers, Council has not developed or authorised a Policy for Valuing, Respecting, Protecting and Managing Volunteers.
C4	City and Council discriminate against Community members	Council does not treat community sourced information equitably to officer manufactured information. Community sourced information is routinely disregarded without due consideration.
C5	Annual report is constructed without value to the community.	While the Financial report is audited to comply with statutory requirements, the remainder of the report is not to any substantive standard. The 2024-25 Annual Report was published without community input and without community informing value. There are no KPI’s of value – there is no risk evaluation. There is no evaluation of City compliance to laws.
C6	Council have no process to remedy false and misleading entries in Council Minutes	Council Meeting Minutes and audio recordings contain unaddressed false and misleading responses to at least questions from the community. These records include inaccurate or false quoting of legislative prescription. There is no evidence of any form of consideration being given by either Council nor administrative staff to rectifying critical inaccuracy.
C7	Council Advisory Committees are not managed as prescribed in the Act and Regulations.	All committees are required to be open to the public since Jan 01, 2026. All committees are required to give time to public questions.
C8	No substantive Policy to manage conflict, disputation and non-compliance.	Council has not developed or endorsed any policy of enforceable integrity to guide the Local Government in managing conflicts, disputations and non-compliances by the City. City officers manage incidents of conflict, disputation and non-compliance by discretionary prejudice and collusion.
C9	Discrimination in engaging community organisations	Neither Council nor City engage equitably with community organisations. Social and sporting organisations attract greater support and consideration than service and advocacy organisations.

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