Ms Aiton’s great great niece Melissa Dal Broi was perplexed why council would build a memorial for Ms Aiton and then not manage it’s upkeep.

“With Griffith's history, they've chosen and did a memorial for her, the upkeep of things should be maintained by the council,” Mrs Dal Broi said.

“You still want to keep the original look of it, it just needs a little TLC. 

“It doesn't need a major overhaul, just a bit of paint.”

Great niece of Ms Aiton, Marie Towns, said it was disappointing the memorial had been allowed to get to the state it is in.

Mrs Towns even had some ideas on how to bring the memorial back to life.

“It's a shame just to let them (memorials) go when obviously she did a lot of good,” Mrs Towns said.

“I don't think it's going to take a lot to fix it up.

“The bricks would come up nicely.

“Maybe put the bubbler back in and do something with the floor a bit different.

“Maybe tile over the top of that to make it look a bit nicer.”

Ms Aiton was a much-loved Griffith school teacher.

The memorial named in her honour is a shadow of its original self.

The grime build-up has darkened many of the bricks and the paint has chipped away on the base of the memorial.

Mayor John Dal Broi said Griffith City Council was to blame for the memorial’s state.

“I can’t walk away from it, that (memorial upkeep) is council responsibility and we obviously haven't been doing our job as well as we should,” Councillor Dal Broi said.

Cr Dal Broi agreed the memorial needed a revamp and said it was listed in the CBD’s strategy plan.

“It’s probably not listed as a high profile part of the strategy but I wouldn't have any problems with bringing that forward,” Cr Dal Broi said.

“It needs upgrading it needs cleaning and I don’t see it as being a huge dollar spend.

“That could be one of the earlier priorities in my opinion, whereby we would look at the memorial.”