Newsletter 37 –  Candidate For Mayor

Election of Mayor

On 4 December our North Sydney community elected 10 councillors.

On 10 January councillors will gather to elect a mayor.

During this term Councillors will be called upon to:

• push back against the State Government’s:
  • relentless attack on our open green space;
  • freeway/tunnel plans that, if allowed to stand, will vastly increase the amount of traffic on our streets;
• complete the Olympic Pool;
• review its property portfolio; and
• set budgets and funding plans.

It will be a challenging time.

North Sydney has, over the past decade, had a Council divided by two factions – the Council has:

• at times, been dysfunctional (see the attached videos – Mosman Daily’s reports on Council 2014-17 and James Mullen’s report on Council 2021);
• with litigation between councillors and the council and enquiries involving councillors spent more than $1m over the last decade.

We councillors simply can’t continue to go on repeating the past.

The factions need to disengage.

How?

We need a circuit breaker. I can provide that circuit breaker.

I will be a candidate for mayor and if elected I will follow practices intended to ensure procedural fairness (see – newsletter of 3 July).

I will retire the position of Mayor after one year leaving it to my fellow councillors to elect a Mayor to take council forward.

Ian Mutton
imutton@crafers.com
www.ianmutton.com