Just the latest perfect example of the folly of placing your personal security in the hands of bureacrats. They're never accountable for anything.
Read again that statement of their goals: Save the eels and "...increase focus on a performance management culture through developing our scorecard". What the hell does that last part mean?! And how would anyone ever conclude they did NOT reach such a goal (thus not deserving bonuses). This is so typical of bureacracies. Never mind the objective (minimize flood damage). Musn't assign objectives where someone could actually MEASURE whether you'd achieved them or not!!
Whether it's flooding, airport security, confining dangerous child molesters....you name it. Whatever task the government is given, it soon turns into a jobs machine for people who spend their days checking the manual to make sure they can't be blamed for failure. When things ultimately do go wrong, no one's to blame and their answer is a tax increase to pay for more seat warmers. There is no bottom line, no way to measure whether an agency is actually doing what it was supposed to do.
Bureacrats will be the death of us...and I mean that literally.
“The flood planning worked well but some areas were just overwhelmed by the sheer amount of water.”
LOL...Only a government bureaucrat would have the nerve to utter this excuse. If people were fired for mismanagement and dereliction of duty, they might at least stop giving these lame excuses for failure.