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.

M1	Intentional misleading of Council	City officers false and misleading advice to Council and which are recorded in the official Council Meeting minutes Particularly in response to community questions.
M2	Revolving door Employment	The City has employed an officer to manage governance failures that in his previous employment he is on public record as being the enforcer criticising the Council over. While this is not unlawful and there is no imputation to his character, it does leave a nagging perception the City is more interested in using insider knowledge that in rectifying governance and management failure.
M3	Intention to denigrate and disrespect members of community	Officers of the City have labelled questions, delegations and other community provided information as being simply opinion or without evidence. These retorts had been irrespective of available supporting evidence, and or where the community information had challenged false or misleading officer opinion or false or misleading opinionated question responses.
M5	Intention to increase City officer workloads	It appears from the unreasonable number of FOI requests backlogged at the Information Commissioners office that the City’s FOI officers may be intentionally obstructing resolution of obviously valid requests to be offensive toward applicants.  The clear resultant outcome is to increase City and other agency workloads by forcing FOI applicants to become unwilling complainants against City management incompetencies.
M6	Employees operate outside authority of positions of employment. LGA. s 5.41 & s5.44	City executive without delegated authority had created and applied a number of unauthorised policies in a laissez-faire style to the whim of the executive member and in the absence of any management procedure. For Example: Volunteers are managed without the authority to do so.
M7	False Accusations Intended to cause harm DARVO	City Staff persist in unevidenced and otherwise false accusations that are not addressed in conformance with the City’s complaint management Policies. Staff are skilled at DARVO – Denying fault, Accusing complainant and Reversing Victim to become Offender.
M8	City officers disrespect Council and Councillors	Contrary to the Local Government Act and following an express revoking of the Council authorised Unreasonable Complainants Policy, the City officers replicated that policy and applied it in direct contravention of the clear governance direction from Council.
M9	City officers openly disrespect Community Members	Without lawful authority and without “rule of law” safeguards City officers reactivated and apply the Council revoked Unreasonable Complainants policy to purposely shut down legitimate complainants and so obstruct integrity in conflict resolution.
M10	Management of Complaints by those the subject of those complaints:	The Local Government Act facilitates the City of Melville being seen to “stack the deck” when “investigating themselves to find no wrongdoing”: This observation highlights the absurdity and inherent conflict of interest seen with the City of Melville’s impunity from oversight in controlling the narrative of probes into its own officer’s non-compliances and failings.