Council
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Council stalls for an hour to debate $200 training costs
TAMBORINE Mountain councillors Jeff McConnell and Derek Swanborough were grilled for more than an hour in last week’s council meeting over a request to attend…
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Hopes for new CEO to reverse ‘toxic culture’
OUTSPOKEN Councillor Derek Swanborough has described a “toxic culture” at Scenic Rim Council with the Christensen Administration using the OIA, the local government watchdog, for…
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Search for new CEO attracts 70
THE Scenic Rim Regional Council has received 70 applications for the job of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). It’s good news that the region is considered…
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$45M underspent on Council projects in 2021-2022
THE Scenic Rim Regional Council has revealed that around $45 million was not spent in its Infrastructure Capital Works program in the 2021-2022 financial year.…
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Council in Brief
Nation’s best tourism town named on Tuesday Council has voted to send Cr Derek Swanborough to Canberra to represent the region at the event where…
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Scenic Rim Council left in a poor state
COMMENT CHIEF Executive Officer Jon Gibbons leaves Scenic Rim Regional Council a bitterly divided council politically and one that has serious issues with staff retention…
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Councillors apologise as Gibbons leaves
THE region’s top bureaucrat Jon Gibbons left Scenic Rim Regional Council this week, 12 months after his employment contract went before councillors for renewal. …
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Letter to the Editor – Thoughts on the Budget
THE Budget discussions are over (held in closed session), the Budget Meeting is over and the Budget is approved (approved unanimously except for Cr Swanborough…
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Letter to the Editor – Too bound in process and protocol
THE ongoing saga of conflict at every Council meeting, as reported each week in the Guardian, has got to a stage where participants appear to…
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McMahon to step in as Acting CEO
AFTER two years in the job at Scenic Rim Regional Council, General Manager People and Strategy Caroline McMahon, is expected to step in to the…
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Scenic Rim Council grinds to a halt
SCENIC Rim Regional Council is in disarray after the Mayor used new conflict of interest laws again to stifle a vote on councillor conduct complaints.…
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Councillors can’t go on holidays
COUNCILLORS raised concerns with the Mayor’s power to bring last minute matters to a vote through a Mayoral Minute at last week’s meeting. Scenic Rim…
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