We shall never know why seven elected members with an average of just two years experience on Council (and only two with more than two years) chose to make the Administration leaderless at this critical time.
Only Cr John Pintabona saw the strategic issues.
What was the straw that broke the camel's back? The residents and ratepayers of Vincent deserve to be told why the CEO who has been responsible for successfully implementing the often confusing directions and decisions of Council for nearly 20 years has suddenly become unsatisfactory.
Whatever the reason, it would need to be a very strong one to justify dumping the CEO at this time. The next 18 months were going to be difficult enough, for elected members and Administration alike, without having a CEO who knows he doesn't have the support of his Council. Alternatively, if John Giorgi goes early, the City Administration will initially have a temporary leader and then a new one who will need to come up to speed on all the issues facing the City.
But fear not! The cavalry, in the form of Homer Simpson, will 'come to the rescue'. Our esteemed elected members have given the Minister for Local Government a golden opportunity to put Commissioners in place to run the City of Vincent until October 2015 - effectively disenfranchising the people who elected them during the crucial period of local government amalgamations.
With 'friends' like that, who needs enemies.
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