GLENORCHY Mayor Kristie Johnston has vowed to “stand strong” amid growing friction within the council.
As revealed by the Mercury yesterday, the newly elected mayor adjourned a special council meeting because the council’s general manager Peter Brooks had not provided aldermen with copies of a report they were voting on.
Ald Johnston’s move was defied by her fellow aldermen, who continued the meeting without her in a move that prompted a “please explain” by Local Government Minister Peter Gutwein and an investigation by Director of Local Government Phillip Hoysted.
The Mercury can also reveal another meeting, allegedly organised by another alderman, took place yesterday that included most council aldermen. But the mayor was not invited.
This comes as Ald Jenny Branch said the council “was not a dictatorship”.... CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY
It seems that if you wish to get the Minister to take any notice of shonky Council business you need to be a member of the Council or the shonk needs to promise to be politically embarrassing. Anything that possible to shoved onto some other desk to be covered in heaps of alternative cases to consider. So Council functionaries quite probably feel quite comfortable and untouchable. Let's hope that this case changes behaviours.
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