Brisbane City Council has voted to give its CEO more powers to remove comments made in chambers and prevent council officers from being named in public meetings.
abc.net.au/news/brisbane-city-council-move-give-ceo-more-power-edit-transcripts/101739164Brisbane City Council has voted to give its chief executive more powers to remove comments made in chambers and prevent council officers from being named in public meetings.However, the chief executive must ensure "any editing does not result in inaccurate representations of the proceedings of the council meeting"The proposal was made at this week's meeting, the last for the year.
The chief executive is allowed to "edit transcripts created during the process of producing the minutes of a council meeting prior to those minutes being confirmed by council". The Meetings Local Law 2001 prohibits councillors from referring to council officers by name except when complimenting them, and the move to allow the chief executive to remove names was made to strengthen that provision, according to Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner.
"You can attack the administration but do not attack council officers and name them in those attacks," Cr Schrinner added.While University of Queensland law and politics expert Graeme Orr said the move was lawful and better done by the chief executive than a political party representative, he said it "was not desirable".
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