ALBURY Council states on its website (July 31) that it has “invested” the staggering sum of $40,000 towards commissioning the bronze owl sculpture at the Lavington Library-Zauner building as part of a strategy that supports commercial and private partnership.
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Zauner Construction has provided the concrete base and helped with the installation.
The sculpture is meant to symbolise the endangered barking owl and the association of the library with learning and knowledge.
However, for me it will be an ironic symbol of the council’s lack of wisdom in relocating the library from a council owned building (that needed only 20 square-metre more floor space) to rented premises that costs the ratepayers every day.
It is time for Albury Council to review every facet of its operations from a time and motion study of staff through to some commonsense decision making by councillors that best benefits the ratepayers of the city. No expensive consultants are required, simply ask the ratepayers how and where they want their hard-earned spent.
— S. WALTERS,
Lavington
