Thu 22 Jan 2008					Recipients:61x3xx19
						REF:ACGAALN1
			Y/R: Electronic Business Solutions Manager
TO:	The Councillors				cc	Residents

Dear Councillors

	WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE COUNCIL'S COST

This email is to invite your Council to consider how to develop a 
generic Enterprise Business Solutions process that can be 
licensed by all Councils in your State and save considerable expense 
in these difficult financial times

A	Background
B	Convert Council PDF Forms to On-line Forms
C	Assisting Council to provide On-line Services
Z	Next Steps by H 12 Feb 2009 Please

BACKGROUND

One Council recently advertised a vacancy for a new position "FC-34
Enterprise Business Solutions Manager" as a 5-yr contract with a 
remuneration package of $ 170,000 per annum

I am the Official Agent for the candidates for the Sustainability
Action Network [KSAS-SAN-2088] which endeavoured to stand at the 
recent NSW Council elections - review below

In Feb 2001 several of our members were involved with a project
with the Federal Department of Employment, Workplace Relations 
and Small Business [DEWRSB] to conduct a series of eSurveys 
with 273 NSW Local Government Agencies.

Part of this project was to design a Council Online Information 
Services Model

The Enterprise Business Services Manager position refers to the
the State Local Government Act 1993 and the State Electronic 
Transaction Act 

The Electronic Transaction Acts [ETA] are very important for "the 
future economic and social prosperity of Australia" hence as a 
committee we are seeking to work with one Council in each State 
to develop effective Electronic Business Solution services for 
licence to other Councils.

B	CONVERT COUNCIL PDF FORMS TO ON-LINE FORMS

Every Council has between 65-70 PDF forms which can be used as Online 
forms rather than PDF forms which have to be printed by Residents.

When completed by Residents these forms have to be faxed/posted/
hand-delivered back to the Council where the information is re-entered 
into the Council Computer System.

In our opinion each State Local Government Association as the Peak
Body should have developed generic Online Forms for their state
Councils in accordance with the guide-lines published by the
National Office for the Information Economy [NOIE] in 2001

Here is the slide "Online Standards Essential" from the presentation 
by John GRANT Chief General Manager Government Online 
at the OIC Seminar Sep 2001

C	ASSISTING COUNCILS TO PROVIDE ON-LINE SERVICES

As a Committee we have discussed how to assist Councils to implement
effective Online Electronic Business Solutions.

Our members have agreed to work with one Council in each State to
provide a generic Online Council Information Service for a fixed fee.

1	Fee	$ 1,000 per week (one thousand dollars/week)

2	A Royalty for each web-page hit

3	A maximum contract fee $ 150,000 per annum (including Royalties)

4	Term of Contract 5 yrs

This proposal would provide the participating Council in each State 
with Royalties from the Intellectual Property gained during the 5-yr 
Implementation Contract.

This Intellectual Property would be licensed to other Councils in the 
same State similar to the 2-year Exclusive Royalty Contract with 
Software Engineering Australia (SEA-NSW) for OICY2KRAMP SME 
Y2K Due Diligence Process

Z	NEXT STEPS BY THU 12 FEB 2009

If this Joint Venture is of interest then we would propose an On-line
presentation to Council at its meeting in Feb/Mar 2009.

Please confirm by email to me by 17:00 Thu 12 Feb 2009 if this proposal 
is of interest to your Council and the Council meeting date for an 
On-line presentation in Feb/Mar 2009

We look forward to working with you to provide cost effective, 
efficient On-line Council Services

Regards

Yours sincerely


Peter AXTENS LLB
Official Agent
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK

E:	peter.axtens@ksas-au.net
M:	0416-009-468

Att	

A	DRAFT ANALYSIS OF COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS [DAs]

Draft analysis DAs 2008/11/18

B	QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO COUNCIL ON ACCOUNTS

The Question submitted on 17 Jul 2008 "Request details how
Entrepreneurial Income $ 3,264,540 derived".

The Question submitted on 07 Jul 2008 "Request details how
Waste Management Income $ 4,131,321 derived".

1	PDF format

2	HTM format (far faster)

C	"SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN-2088]" CANDIDATES

The Background to the 3 Mosman Candidates from the "Sustainability 
Action Network [SAN-2088]" can be reviewed here

D	AUSTRALIAN SPAM ACT 2003

The Australian Spam Act 2003 was reviewed in detail at the OIC
seminar on 26 May 2005

The Australian Spam Act 2003 refers to Spam as "unsolicited
commercial emails".   

Emails in the Public Interest such as this email are not classified as
"unsolicited commercial emails" hence do not require an unsubscribe 
option.

None of the email addresses were purchased and were collected 
according to the proper processes outlined in the Australian Spam 
Act 2003.