An arbiter says it is regrettable she was called in to resolve fallout from a Facebook comment about a councillor's attire at a confidential online meeting.
abc.net.au/news/glenelg-mayor-scott-martin-apologise-gilbert-wilson-comment/101886386A regional Victorian mayor has been ordered to apologise to a council colleague after he wrote a lengthy Facebook post containing a "highly personal" comment about a bathrobe worn in a confidential zoom meeting.
Councillor Gilbert Wilson, one of two councillors later named in the post, lodged the complaint against Cr Martin, saying he had not treated him with "dignity, fairness or objectivity". "He had been ill and was required to attend a confidential council meeting by Zoom," the arbiter's report reads.
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