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Invercargill City Councilman Nobby Clark at a council meeting Tuesday.
Invercargill Deputy Mayor Nobby Clark publicly apologized to three fellow council members for the comments he made about them in the media.
At the beginning of the Invercargill City Council infrastructure services meeting on Tuesday, Clark offered a public apology to Councilors Ian Pottinger, Rebecca Amundsen and Darren Ludlow.
Last month, Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt appointed Clark as his new deputy mayor after Toni Biddle resigned from the council.
Shortly after the appointment, addressing concerns about Shadbolt’s performance, Clark told the media that there were factions on the council.
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He said that what had created problems on the council was that at least three councilors, Pottinger, Amundsen and Ludlow, wanted to be mayors.
He said councilors must be “completely focused” on the results for the betterment of the city.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Clark apologized for those comments.
He said that during the recent media commentary on the mayor and his performance, he expressed his opinion that three other councilors have had an impact on that.
On reflection, that statement on my part was inappropriate and I would duly offer Cr Pottinger, Ludlow and Amundsen an apology for any inappropriate reflection I made about them. “
Pottinger, who chaired the meeting, thanked Clark for the apologies before moving on to the next item on the agenda.
In August, Cr Clark received a Code of Conduct complaint against him for comments he made about CEO Clare Hadley at a Performance, Policy and Partnerships committee meeting on August 11.
That Code of Conduct complaint has yet to be resolved.
Meanwhile, the city council plans to modernize its parking meter system with the old parking meters that will be abandoned.
Speaking to a review and amendment of the parking control law, the council’s highway manager, Russell Pearson, addressed the proposal for parking meters.
It would include replacing current single head parking meters with multiple “parking kiosks” and introducing “pay per plate” technology.
Pearson said Invercargill was one of the few city councils that still used the older parking meters.
