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.

F1	Failure to measure or report known hidden costs trends LG Regs. r.19C.(5) DLG. Integrated Planning and Reporting – Framework and Guidelines	The City submitted to the 2017/18 Ministerial Inquiry that the hidden cost of resource management used was unreasonable. That reporting was intended to mislead the Minister by apportioning blame onto the complainants when the true fact was that in every case the substance of complaint was easily, simple and quick resolvable. And, their continued maintenance by the City in 2026, alongside the City’s continued refusal to measure and report those claimed “unreasonable” costs is actively contributing to ongoing hidden costs exceeding $180k per annum. Council has refused to require the CEO to measure these hidden costs affecting future resource allocations. The outcome is clearly recognisable as improper maintenance of inefficient or poor management practice.
F2	False reporting	The Local Government has no procedure for identifying and correcting false or misleading advisories minuted in their confirmed Council Meeting Minutes. Most Council Meetings Minutes for at least 2025 contain false records including false quotation of legislation.
F3	Misuse of funds	Officers of the City had used Lawyers to send administrative management correspondence of no legal consequence. It is perceived this was intentionally purposed to frighten recipients into abandoning pursuit of valid complaints.
F4	Unlawful charging of fees	The City FOI officers Charge fees for seeking access to personal information in the face of a legislated prohibition and a case precedence.
F5	Liability Risk	The City attempts to transfer liability to NFP groups by requiring groups to self-insure when the liability is retained by the City regardless of the separate insurance.
F6	Risk to life and property	In the summer of 2024 – 25 a fire swept through Bull Creek Reserve (also known as Gabbiljee). That fire came perilously close to destroying several adjoining homes. This was the second fire in the same location. Despite the City having a “fire plan” that plan did not include local residents. That plan was clearly inadequate. The fire had also left a risk of future damage to adjoining powerlines. Despite being informed of the potential risk to life and property, the City has not analysed and remedied those risks.
F7	Use of unreasonably costly unusable “shelf Plans”	The City is well practiced in producing useless plans and Strategy documents. The City publishes those materials on their website that are so large in file size that it is unreasonable to expect members of the community to access, read, understand or comply with. The costs of producing these far outweigh their value to the Local Government.
F8	Unreasonable costs by prohibiting community engagement.	The City applies an unwritten and unspoken policy of promoting employment to forcibly exclude community volunteers from engaging meaningfully with their local government. This exclusion hugely raises public purse costs, disenfranchise community and is detrimental to the health of the community.

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