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Seen at the lift landing of a block of flats in Aljunied GRC. In this times of belt tightening, and amongst the many publicly annouced ‘Green’ schemes to save energy, we seen another example blatantly going these principles.
This electronic noticeboard replaced the usual static noticeboard found at HDB void decks, and I believe the block that I see this is not the only block with this. The usual notices that used to be displayed uses A4 pieces of paper are now rotated after the message from the MP (Cynthia Phua), and some repetitive fireworks images, so I guess in terms of effectiveness to convey events in the community, this electronic noticeboard is even less effective that the old one.
I wonder at what time this screen is switched on and off everyday, or is it left on for 24 hours?
Who foots the bill for the purchase of the screen? Who foots the bill for the electricity to power it?
Going by conventional wisdom, it is either the RC (since the noticeboard declares its name so prominently) which in turn gets funding from PA, which in turns gets funding from the taxpayers; or it is the Town Council, which gets half of its funding from the S&CC charges paid by the residents, and another half of its funding from the taxpayers. No matter what, the taxpayers seem to be the ones footing the bills for this, unless someone tells me the MP herself is paying from her own pocket.
Some civil servant was chided for spending 45K on his vacation, but that has an end to it. Does this installation has an end to it? Or will it continue to waste the money that is funding it until some enlightened folks say enough is enough?
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Seen at the lift landing of a block of flats in Aljunied GRC. In this times of belt tightening, and amongst the many publicly annouced ‘Green’ schemes to save energy, we seen another example blatantly going these principles.
This electronic noticeboard replaced the usual static noticeboard found at HDB void decks, and I believe the block that I see this is not the only block with this. The usual notices that used to be displayed uses A4 pieces of paper are now rotated after the message from the MP (Cynthia Phua), and some repetitive fireworks images, so I guess in terms of effectiveness to convey events in the community, this electronic noticeboard is even less effective that the old one.
I wonder at what time this screen is switched on and off everyday, or is it left on for 24 hours?
Who foots the bill for the purchase of the screen? Who foots the bill for the electricity to power it?
Going by conventional wisdom, it is either the RC (since the noticeboard declares its name so prominently) which in turn gets funding from PA, which in turns gets funding from the taxpayers; or it is the Town Council, which gets half of its funding from the S&CC charges paid by the residents, and another half of its funding from the taxpayers. No matter what, the taxpayers seem to be the ones footing the bills for this, unless someone tells me the MP herself is paying from her own pocket.
Some civil servant was chided for spending 45K on his vacation, but that has an end to it. Does this installation has an end to it? Or will it continue to waste the money that is funding it until some enlightened folks say enough is enough?
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