The council watchdog finds Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate engaged in misconduct, ordering him to make a public admission on his Facebook page and pay two fines.
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate engaged in misconduct by directing the former council chief executive officer to stop disciplinary proceedings against another staff member in 2015, a Queensland tribunal has found.The decision by the Councillor Conduct Tribunal was handed down in May and made public todayA spokesman for the Office of the Mayor said Cr Tate was seeking to have the findings reviewed
The Tribunal determined Cr Tate also failed to declare a conflict of interest during a council meeting in 2017.Dickson gave notice to the Mayor's Chief of Staff Wayne Moran in November 2015, that he intended to take disciplinary action against him. It also states the letter said if the direction was not carried out within 14 days "he [Cr Tate] would take the next step under the Act in relation to the CEO's failure to comply with this direction".
"By exercising his power to issue directions to the CEO in the way he did, evokes the popular phrase of 'sweeping things under the rug'.Conflict of interest allegation sustainedIt involved "a failure to declare a conflict of interest in a Council meeting where Council was considering directions issued by [Cr Tate] and whether Council ought to refer those directions to the Department of Local Government".
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