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IN THE EXAMINER: Councillors considered the future of a property on Frederick Street, owned by the City of Launceston council, at a workshop in early May.
56 Frederick Street was a childcare facility on a property just over 900 metres squared.
Built in 1836, the house is on the Tasmanian Heritage Register and is of historical significance because it may possibly be the oldest existing kindergarten or infant school in Australia.
Plaque on side of the building. Picture by Paul Scambler
At the May 18 council meeting, councillors highlighted the importance of the Fredrick street building.
"This is a building the council has owned for approximately 130 years," councillor Tim Walker said.
"This is a building of some importance not just to the people who have gone there, but for generations before us for different reasons."
City of Launceston acting mayor Matthew Garwood said the council's assets played an important part of the community.
"Council officers are exploring the potential of a public expressions of interest process for the future use of 56 Frederick Street," he said.
"It's expected that a recommendation will be brought to a council meeting once the process is explored."
NB: This keeps happening and always it seems that some developer or other is in the wings looking for a bargain. Whenever, a community group comes along looking to meet a community aspiration every stone is put in the road after some bureaucratic huffing and puffing – supposedly empathetic huffing band puffing.
For good reason such community groups are just as antithetic to bureaucratic self imposed problems as are the bureaucrats to their constituency's aspirations – and everyone loses big time. Somehow the plot has been lost by someone somewhere along the way. Who changed the meaning of PUBLIC SERVANT?
It seems that the more you pay a public servant – the ratepayers et al – the less likely they are to 'serve' and the more likely they are to conveniently dictate rules and deem things to be 'the truth'. Scholars who focus their attention on civics will, if asked, provide you with multiple examples of such behaviours.
As it is said in the Yiddish English lexicon "enough already"!
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