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Councillor kicked out of meeting

Neil WalkerBy Neil Walker23 April 2018Updated:23 April 2018No Comments3 Mins Read
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Mayor Cr Colin Hampton and Cr Kris Bolam
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Mayor Cr Colin Hampton and Cr Kris Bolam

THIS month’s public council meeting saw a councillor ejected from the chamber by the mayor during a fiery disagreement.

Mayor Cr Colin Hampton ordered Cr Kris Bolam from the council chamber late in the 3 April meeting as the pair duelled over a point of order and dissent against a mayoral ruling while chairing the meeting.

Cr Hampton was criticising councillors who “talk the talk but don’t walk the walk” on keeping costs to ratepayers under control when Cr Bolam indicated he would raise a motion of dissent if the mayor persisted in criticising councillors who raised notices of motion at council meetings.

The mayor immediately said he would order the councillor from the meeting if he lodged the motion of dissent.

A debate ensued about who had been quicker on the draw to take action. Cr Bolam was forced to leave the chamber “for one hour” on the mayor’s orders.

The meeting lasted for less than an hour afterwards.

A motion of dissent against the mayoral ruling subsequently raised by Cr Glenn Aitken after Cr Bolam’s exit was voted down 5-3.

Crs Brian Cunial, Sandra Mayer, deputy mayor Cr Lillian O’Connor and Cr Hampton himself voted against the dissent motion.

Crs Aitken, Quinn McCormack and Steve Toms voted to support the dissent motion.

The dissent motion was the third such motion against a mayoral ruling while chairing a meeting this year.

Only the March monthly meeting has not seen a dissent motion introduced at any stage of debate.

“He was trying to interrupt my debate,” Cr Hampton told The Times last week when asked about the incident.

Cr Bolam said: “It is disappointing, at least to me, to witness the continued weaponisation of rules and procedures to seemingly disenfranchise certain democratically elected representatives from participating in the decision-making process”.

The Labor state government late last year sent monitor Prue Digby to Frankston Council to observe council meetings and report back to Local Government Minister Marlene Kairouz about councillors’ behaviour.

Ms Digby’s appointment term runs from 13 December until 30 June in 2019. The monitor will hand interim reports to the Minister’s department.

The municipal monitor’s remuneration is fixed at $1200 a day and must be paid by Frankston Council ratepayers in accordance with the Local Government Act.

Ms Digby is at council for two-and-a-half days on average a week.

First published in the Frankston Times – 23 April 2018

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